Fate in Oedipus the King
Do people have control over their lives or is everything already set in place to happen? In “Oedipus the King”, fate is the foundation of the story. Fate is this predestined force that cannot be defied or changed. Fate is something that will always be there until it is fulfilled. Fate is pretty much like the root of all good and evil. Some fate is good, but others can be horrific. Fate is like a grenade, it gives the person enough time to figure it out and then BOOM it explodes after they’ve found the answer they were looking for. This is exactly like “Oedipus the King” because Oedipus was issued a prophecy, Oedipus seeked for answers, and finally he began to realize and make sense of everything.
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He was angry because he was appalled that Teiresias would issue such unfavorable prophecies to him. This anger pressured him to seek for answers. Oedipus went to Jocasta for advice. Jocasta is Oedipus’s wife and the mother of his children. Jocasta told Oedipus not to worry about the prophecy because her and her old husband were given a prophecy that they thought they had changed. Jocasta’s old husband used to be the king of Thebes. His name was Laius. Laius was killed one day where three roads meet, by who that thought was a stranger to the land. The prophecy came from those who assist the god, Apollo. The prophecy stated that Laius was fated to be killed by a child conceived by him and Jocasta. But, before the child was three days old, Laius fused his ankles tight together and ordered other men to throw him out on a mountain rock where no one ever goes. And so this led Jocasta to believe Apollo’s plan that the child would be the one to kill Laius didn’t work and Laius never suffered what he feared , that his own son would be his murderer. Jocasta’s disbelief in the prophecy triggered Oedipus’s journey to seek the