Destiny
plays a very strong role in . The play's central theme is that people can't
escape their destinies.
tries to evade his tragic destiny, which he learns
is to kill his father and marry his mother. When he discovers this is what he is fated to do, he
leaves his home in Corinth, not knowing that the parents who have raised him are not his real
parents. On the road to Thebes, he unknowingly kills his real father. When he arrives in Thebes,
he unknowingly marries his biological mother, .
Oedipus has the pride () to
believe he has beaten the destiny the gods assigned to him, as does Jocasta, who knows she was
fated to marry her son. When Oedipus learns from the oracle that an unpunished sin is causing
the plague in Thebes, it never occurs to him that he could be the cause.
The
message the play delivers is that humans can't hope to defy what the gods have
decreed.
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