Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Does Oedipus, in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, have any control over what happened to him?

Obviously there are two ways of thinking aboutand his fate in by
. One idea is that he was a victim of fate, powerless to make any decisions on his own. In this
scenario, his choices were in fact preordained acts over which he had no control. Another idea
suggests that Oedipus is a man who makes his own choices and is therefore the master of his own
destiny. This is the great tension of the play, and it all hinges on the prophecies which were
made both to Laius andand to Oedipus. 

The prophesy Oedipus receives is that
he will kill his father and marry his...






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