Letters the characters might have written.
Last letter to Oedipus, from Jocasta before her suicide.
My beloved Oedipus,
I just cannot believe this. All those prophesies that I told you to ignore; their all TRUE! I cannot bear to live on with this knowledge, that is why I must leave this world. I must die, there is no other choice for me! I wish you had never been so passionate on finding out who your parents were, none of this might have happened. We would have continued to live in our happiness.
I was so stupid to try and run from fate. How could I have been blind to the fact that giving up my dear son to a shepherd was pointless? How could I be blind to the fact that once the gods have made up their minds, it's over and nothing can stop the fate? Oh! Why did this all have to happen to my family? OUR family?! why are we so cursed? What did we ever do to make the gods angry at us?
My dear, I wish you to know I will still care you, after all you are my son. But I just cannot stand what happened. I will never be able to live with my self in the agony of the truth. I wish you well. I hope nothing terrible happens to you. Though we know very well what the prophets and the gods have decreed. So, I know this happiness will not happen. I still wish you well though and hope for the best.
I have decided to take the quiest, easiest why out of this terrible place. I shall hang myself once and for all.
Goodbye forever,
Jocasta
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