The Two Doors In Oedipus The King

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, and I was a courtier of her father. Her father was a barbaric king and had a mind of his own. The king's way of justice included two doors in an arena. If you were accused of a crime that brought interest to the king, you would have to walk through the arena and pick one of the two doors located on the other side. One of which led to a beautiful, new bride, while the other would contain a fierce lion, leading to certain death. What was behind these doors was always switching, not even the king knew what each door held. The only people who knew what they contained were the people who put the two outcomes behind the two different doors. The king had no mercy for anyone and any man knew to stay

On the way out of the arena, I looked up to where my princess had been sitting and she was gone, it would be too much to bare seeing me being wedded to one of the finest ladies in town. After I led my new bride home and everything had settled down, I prepared an escape. In a week or so I would sneak out and into the castle to grab my true love and leave for a far away country, where we could be together without conflict. Soon enough the week came when I was to follow through with my plan. I snuck out of my house and once I arrived at the castle, the princess was sitting there waiting for me. She told me how she had known I would come for her and that she wanted to be prepared to leave when I had done so. That night the princess and I headed off for a land of peace and within three weeks we had arrived. All the people were so kind and it took my princess and I a little getting used to, since we had come from a barbaric culture. Once we had settled in, we had lived happily married for many, many years. The princess later died when she was at a very old age and 3 days later I suffered and died from a broken