What control has a man against what the gods have ordained? Leon Golden states that to pity those who receive undeserved misfortune and to fear that such a fate is possible for all men “requires that the tragic hero fall from happiness to misery because of some intellectual, not moral error (hamartia). ” Oedipus did not know his father when he killed him and he did not know his mother when he married her. His ignorance was his doom. In the self-fulfilling prophecy, Oedipus's premature curse on transgressors, places the curse on him: "I pray that this man's life will be spent in evil and misery." Sophocles inspires fear in his audience when he identifies with Oedipus. Parricide and incest are universally and historically seen as wrong, yet, speaking of Oedipus, Freud wrote: “His fate moves us only because it could have been ours.” A man's first love is his mother, and his first hate is his father. The audience can see the realization of such wishes. Quoting Aristotle Golden states: "... since pity is aroused by those who undeservedly fall into misfortune, and fear is aroused by the recognition that it is someone like us who encounters this misfortune..." The Oracle says to drive away the repaired pollution, the incurable, that which is “beyond all help or cure.” The emotion of pity is not provoked by a spectacle, or by what one sees, but by a careful management of the structure of the work, from one revelation to another, as if Oedipus were carried away in a torrent of knowledge, until he finally drowns in it. Where choice is never taken away from the hero of Greek tragedies, neither are the consequences to be purified from the city, and the cause of the plague is Oedipus' theory that the purpose of tragedy is catharsis, purging or purification, both in character and in the audience, she is seen in full