Sophocles’s greek tragedy, Oedipus The King, is a play about Oedipus’s fate, and his effort in changing it. The Greeks believed in a supreme power, the God’s, and fate. No matter how hard anyone may try to avoid their destiny, it will happen in some form or fashion. The downfall of Oedipus is primarily the consequence of King Laius and his own behavior to defy his own destiny. King Laius traveled to the Oracle of Delphi where he received a prophecy that his own child was going to murder him and marry his wife. He returned to Thebes to recount this prophecy to his wife and planned to murder their child. Yet not either of them had the guts to do it. They had a servant take their child to Mount Cithaeron for execution: “Shepherd- It was the