Oedipus the King, is a play in which its readers are presented with the relationships
             between Gods and humans. Throughout the play humans rely upon gods for support, guidance, and assistance. Humans have the knowledge that the gods are all knowing and powerful; yet they show arrogances, and contempt in their belief that they can control their own fates.
             Oedipis, and the dead king Laius, tried to change their fates that had been prophesied and foretold by the God Phoebus. It was their own actions, to avoid their foretold futures, which ultimately aided in bringing about their fates. Humans may think they can control their own fates, but in the presents of gods their fates have already been decided.
             Starting on line 765, Jocasta conveys a story to Oedipus of how an Oracle had predicted Laius' fate.
             There was an oracle once that came to Laius,-
             I will not say that it was Phoebus' own,
             but it was from his servants-and it told him
             that it was fate that he should die a victim
             at the hands of his own son, a son to be born
             of Latius and me. (lines 769-774)
             Jocasta, in the above quotations, is playing a nurturing motherly roll. She is trying to calm Oedipus' anger by rationalizing that the gods and their prophets can be and are sometimes wrong. Jocasta is ignorant in the fact that the prophecy is correct, and Oedipus is Laius' murderer, and their son.
             Jocasta, in her dialogue, refers to how King Laius tried to circumvent his fate by choosing to murder their son.
             and for the son - before three days were out
             after his birth King Laius pierced his ankles
             and by the hands of others cast him forth
             upon a pathless hillside. So Apollo
             failed to fulfill his oracle to the son,
             that he should kill his father,... (lines 777-782)
             King Laius bel...