Jocasta Cameron Innes is the youngest sister of Ellen, Colum, and Dougal MacKenzie, and grew up with her siblings at Castle Leoch. She was a very skilled artist, like her sister, before she gradually lost her sight.
Let's learn about the disease that robbed Jocasta Cameron of her eyesight: Glaucoma. Yep, that's the one. Glaucoma (glaw-koh-muh), is a word derived from the Greek glaukommatos meaning “gray-eyed.”
Non-book readers may be wondering how and why Jocasta is blind. On the show, the affliction is never addressed. In the book, it comes up for Claire a few times. First off, it takes everyone a while to realize that Jocasta can't see.
What happens to Jocasta in the books? As the American Revolutionary War begins, Jocasta knows the potential for damage, danger, and destruction. She lived through Culloden, and she can't live through that again. In fact, it's why she couldn't be with Murtagh in the end.
Jocasta is dead, by suicide. She locked herself in her bedroom, crying for Laius and weeping for her monstrous fate. Oedipus came to the door in a fury, asking for a sword and cursing Jocasta. He finally hurled himself at the bedroom door and burst through it, where he saw Jocasta hanging from a noose.
Jocasta and Laius, her first husband, receive a prophecy that their son will grow up to kill Laius. In an effort to avoid this prophecy, they abandon their son to die on a mountain.
Let's learn about the disease that robbed Jocasta Cameron of her eyesight: Glaucoma. Yep, that's the one. Glaucoma (glaw-koh-muh), is a word derived from the Greek glaukommatos meaning “gray-eyed.”
Some think Jamie's spirit (but not his body) traveled to through time to guide Claire to him; others suggest Jamie had a near-death experience after the Battle of Culloden, and that's why his ghost is 25 when he appears to Frank.
See, before her wedding, Jocasta signed over ownership of River Run to baby Jemmy so that Duncan Innes wouldn't have any claim to it; Jocasta was the estate's guardian until Jemmy came of age.
He does not know his true parents, marries his mother, and kills his father because of this blindness. After gaining sight of 'truth,' he gouges his eyes, becoming physically blind. Jocasta, on her part, knows the truth but chooses to 'blind' herself towards the same; she kills herself as a result.
Her tragic flaw is hubris, the arrogance that often accompanies greatness. She routinely dismisses the gods and believes that she knows all: "Apollo brought neither thing to pass... brush them from your mind.
At the end of the play, after the truth finally comes to light, Jocasta hangs herself while Oedipus, horrified at his patricide and incest, proceeds to gouge out his own eyes in despair.
Book fans will remember that Jocasta ultimately ends up marrying Duncan Innes, in order to protect her estate, and she hints at this in bed with Murtagh in the moments after their reunion.
She tells him the story of how she lost her daughters – how after Culloden her youngest was murdered in a fight with dragoons for French gold. Her two eldest daughters died in fires set by the Brits after Culloden.
Jocasta acts as a hero, but is also a character in a tragedy, and in tragedies heroes do not triumph. She is a tragic hero because she fits the definition of a person doomed by fate, whose misfortune is brought about by error or ignorance, not by vice or depravity. Jocasta's essential quality is her rationality.
Diana Gabaldon has confirmed there is no possibility that Jamie Fraser will time-travel into the future and live out his life at Lallybroch.
Yet, even with so many people suspicious of her, there are plenty of characters who know that Claire is a time traveler. As the number of time travelers on Outlander increases, the secret understandably has become harder to keep. But the more people who know, the more Claire and her family could be in danger.
For now, though, it appears both Fergus and Marsali aren't time travellers with actors Lyle and Domboy addressing this in an Instagram live Q&A from earlier this year.
Answer and Explanation: In Oedipus the King, Jocasta kills herself because she is ashamed for having become intimate with her son, Oedipus.
Oedipus found Jocasta's lifeless body, and took two golden pins from her regal dress and pricked both of his eyes out.
Jocasta's third marriage (to a third Cameron) was to Hector mor Cameron, and as in her previous marriages they had one daughter, Morna Cameron, in 1730.
in psychoanalytic theory, an abnormally close or incestuous attachment of a mother to her son. It is named for Jocasta, the mother and wife of Oedipus in Greek mythology. Compare Oedipus complex.
When does Jocasta realize the truth and how does she react? She realizes the truth when the messenger comes and she tells Oedipus to give up looking for the answers.
The idea of the Oedipus Complex is derived from Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, during which Oedipus learned that he was cursed to kill his father and sleep with his mother.