Fate Is Omniscent

When Oedipus was born the oracle prophesized that he would kill his father and wed his mother so in order to save themselves his parents had him killed, or so they thought. He was chained to a mountainside by his ankles and left to die an agonizing death, but a wandering Shepard found him and saved him. He was brought to King of Corinth, who since he could not father any children of his own, raised him as if he were his. Oedipus knew nothing of hi

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He finds out he fulfilled his fate, he killed his father and wed his mother. No one could solve the sphinx’s accursed riddle, not even the wise man of the town, Teiresias.

On the road Oedipus met a man traveling in a carriage, and when told to step aside so they could pass, Oedipus struck out in anger and killed the King of Thebes, who we know to be his biological father and all of his men except one. He finds out that a shepard knows the killer’s identity and will not be satisfied until the shepard is brought before him and the truth is wrung out of him.

Oedipus in his attempt to escape his fate by fleeing from Corinth he actually ran straight into it. Oedipus main character flaw throughout the play is that he is quick to anger. Ironically the blind seer can see the truth but Oedipus who can see cannot. If he would have remained in Corinth until his dying day the fate would never have come to be, so Oedipus made his own fate. The tranquility did not last long though because in the town he was quickly crowned king and wed to the Queen of Thebes, Jocasta (Oedipus’s mother). Tiresias warns Oedipus that he is meddling in affairs best left alone, but Oedipus is too stubborn to listen to the advice. In fear and love for his “parents” he ran from them and vowed never to return. s wretched fate until one day a drunken man in a pub told him the prophecy. He looks for the murder of Laius, unknown to him that the true murder is he. You cannot control your fate, Oedipus damned himself through trying to escape it and alter it.

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