An inclination of the beam can cause chaos; therefore, there are people who try to prevent the information from arriving. Denial complicates understanding human experience because it causes people to reject information and thus hinder the progress of knowledge. Sophocles exemplifies this through Jocasta and Oedipus. Jocasta and Oedipus were in a good balance in that they unknowingly suffered from self-ignorance but enjoyed the joys of a family and wealth. The fear of tipping the balance forced both Jocasta and Oedipus into forced refusal. They believe that the murder story told by the servant is the whole truth and cannot think otherwise. Jocasta states that Laius was murdered “by foreign robbers in a place where three roads meet” (715). Oedipus fails to recognize the similar situation he was in when he “encountered…a carriage with a man in it…near the crossroads” (799-803). He clearly denies the latent memory by declaring that “it wasn't [he] who killed him” (843). Jocasta and Oedipus then exchanged their prophecies. Jocasta revealed that Laius would be “killed by his own son” and Oedipus admitted that he was “doomed to be the murderer of the father who fathered [him]” (854, 793). Even with the coinciding prophecies, neither Jocasta nor Oedipus felt the need to mention the coincidence. Finally, another obvious irony is when Oedipus is told about Jocasta tying her baby's ankles and