Oedipus Rex is full of striking and poignant imagery. Perhaps the most noteworthy example of imagery is presented to the reader towards the end of the play. Oedipus finds his mother and wife, Jocasta, dead as a result of hanging herself. In a fit of extreme anguish, Oedipus does the following:
He snatched the golden brooches from the Queen,With which her robe was fastened, lifted them,And struck. Deep to the very founts of...