What is a good thesis sentence for an essay about fate versus free will in Oedipus Rex?

Thesis:and his birth parents exercise free
will in trying to avoid fate, which ultimately leads to their downfall.

The
Greeks believed that people could not escape fate. However, they also knew thatwas most people's
hamartia, or fatal flaw, and hubris sometimes causes people to feel above the law, which leads
them to using their free will.

At birth, Oedipus's parents were told of a
prophesy that Oedipus would grow up to murder his father, Laius, and marry his mother, .
Horrified and scared, his parents exercise their free will and try to avoid this prophesy by
sending Oedipus with a shepherd to be killed in infancy. Instead of leaving Oedipus on Mount
Cithaeron hung on a tree by his riveted feet, the shepherd pitied the boy and gave him to the
king and queen of the neighboring kingdom of Corinth.

Years later, as a teen,
Oedipus learns of the prophesy from a drunkard, and thinking that his adopted parents are his
real parents, he uses his free will in order to escape his fate, just as his birth parents had
done, and leaves Corinth. On his way to finding a life away from his adoptive parents, Oedipus
encounters his father, Laius, and kills him in a fit of road rage not knowing that he is his
father. Circumstances then lead him to save the kingdom of Thebes, and he wins the hand of the
queen, his mother, Jocasta. Before he is exiled for murdering the king, Oedipus's
uncle/brother-in-law says to him, "It is not your place to decide; the power you had has
not remained with you," meaning that the fate the gods have decided for you supersedes your
free will.

In Oedipus's case, his fate was prophesized because it
was destined to happen. It was not destined to happen because it was prophesized. The  happened
because Jocasta's, Laius's, and Oedipus's hubris made it happen.

 

 

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