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Question:A second messenger arrives and reveals that Jocasta has hanged herself and Oedipus, upon discovering her body, blinds himself with the golden brooches on her dress.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A second messenger arrives and reveals that Jocasta has hanged herself and Oedipus, upon discovering her body, blinds himself with the golden brooches on her dress.

A brooch.

a picture of his wife

He uses the brooch of his wife/mother to gauge his eyes out.

He blinded himself with the golden pins from Jocasta's dress

I believe with his mother's brooch.

Excessive masturbation.

His mother/wifes' broach

The pin on a brooch that he took from the robe of Jocasta his wife and mother when he found her hanging by her neck from a rafter in their bedroom.