# Family and Identity in Oedipus Rex

> Theme guide for Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.

Oedipus's entire identity is built on false assumptions about his parentage; the discovery that he is the son of Laius and Jocasta, and thus both father and brother to his children, destroys his sense of self and his family.

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