What will be will be
Sophocles is sending the message, whatever is destined to happen will happen. There is no getting around it. There is nothing you can do to prevent that which has been ordained by the gods. After all, they are immortal and we are mortal. In the other books we read this course this theme is prevalent. In the Odyssey, it is Odysseus's fate to return home after 10 years of war and ten years of wandering. He has many brushes with death, he lost his entire crew, and his ship but he is still destined to get home. When we were reading the Metamorphoses I remember making the statement "If the goddess's fall in love with you, your doomed". There was no way of evading their advances. You can run away from fate, but you can not evade it forever. Sophocles takes fate to a different level. He shows the futility of trying to alter fate. This fact is clearly understood in this story. At his birth it was ordained that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. The oracle of Apollo declared the omen, and that's all there was to it. Surely Oedipus, a new born baby was totally innocent. At this point it was nothing that Oedipus had done to justify such a tragedy. However that is what
He wont know for another 15 years. He encounters "The Sphinx" and has to solve her riddle to pass. I am reminded about the Bible' story of Job. If Oedipus was really concerned about his fate, before fleeing he should have verified the rumor concerning his birth. This is a turning point in his life. They are just fooling themselves. There is an argument over the right of way that escalates to physical assault and finally murder. In fact he completes the first part of the prophecy on his journey to Thebes. Does this justify the fate that would befall him. God does not take pleasure when tragedies befall us. He solves the riddle, and destroys the power of the Sphinx. The first: never kill anyone, even in self-defense. What could they do? They didn't want to kill the baby.
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