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 h

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Oedipus happiness lasts for only a short time because he begins to slowly find out the truth.

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. Ironically the blind seer can see the truth but Oedipus who can see cannot. No one could solve the sphinx’s accursed riddle, not even the wise man of the town, Teiresias.

Oedipus in his attempt to escape his fate by fleeing from Corinth he actually ran straight into it. 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. His quest for the truth is his downfall. He looks for the murder of Laius, unknown to him that the true murder is he. Oedipus main character flaw throughout the play is that he is quick to anger. is wretched fate until one day a drunken man in a pub told him the prophecy. He finds out he fulfilled his fate, he killed his father and wed his mother. Tiresias warns Oedipus that he is meddling in affairs best left alone, but Oedipus is too stubborn to listen to the advice. Every step that you take and every breath that you take is all due to fate. Oedipus came to the city and solved the sphinx’s riddle and brought peace and prosperity back to Thebes. In fear and love for his “parents” he ran from them and vowed never to return.

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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