When the truth comes out , Jocasta commits suicide , Oedipus blinds himself and leaves Thebes , and the children are left to sort out the consequences themselves ( see the later parts of the cycle of plays ) . When the truth comes out , folling from another true but confusing prophecy from Delphi , Jocasta commits suicide , Oedipus blinds himself and leaves Thebes , and the children are left to sort out the consequences themselves ( which provides the grounds for the later parts of the cycle of plays ) .