Oedipus Rex

Oedipus sounds like a real pain in the butt right from the beginning. Why not just shut up about his problems? He's the king. What does he have to really worry about? Oh, wait the whole murder your father sleep with your mother thing seems like something to be worried about but right he DOESN’T KNOW THAT. Pity's not going to make the kids feel better by the way. Okay so like how can this guy not remember killing someone?  I mean like he was a dude who was a king with a bunch of guards and you can't remember him? You know I really feel like Oedipus' solution to everything is to kill them. It might be a lie? Kill them. Think they are plotting against you? Kill them. Dad blocking your way and tried to chop off your head? Kill him. Oh right his "dad" died of old age. That took a long time to put two and two together especially for a king. You killed a person. The king was killed. The king disappeared, you showed up. I would like to think that a 5 year old could put that together and figure out that it was him. He could solve the Sphinx's riddle and save a whole kingdom but can't even put something that simple together.  You know reading these types of books and stuff  are the most frustrating thing in the world. You know everything about the place and people but the characters don’t and it makes them seem so stupid you want to just yell at the characters to quit being so dumb because splitting up and looking for clues will get you killed and then you remember that you are yelling at a book and it makes you feel stupid because hey I just yelled at someone trapped in a dead tree. The person isn't even real. This is a very frustrating play. It's more frustrating than a framed picture of the leaning tower of Pisa to a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Oh great now he's torturing old people. What a wonderful person. I should totally feel sorry for him for not being able to change his fate. If you weren't away that was meant to have been completely sarcastic. So he has to leave?? Alright so let's summarize. He goes to some place and sees kids and talks about the plague. Then the messenger comes and delivers the news and he needs to make sure so he asks someone else and when he doesn’t get the answer he wants he threatens to kill the guy. Then he goes to his wife and mom and they talk about it and the messenger and shepherd are brought to him to be questioned and he threatens both of them and he gets his answer and they make him go away? Is that it? Or just a prologue? That was a pretty bad story. I didn't like it. Not enough action. Where's the hero? Every good story needs a hero.