Destiny, Fate, Free Will and Free Choice in Oedipus the King - Impact of Fate :: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

Oedipus The fairy and His Fate Oedipus The King, by Sophocles, is a play somewhat how Oedipus lives up his pot that he will kill his father and link up his mother, both of which are extremely bad in the Greek society, take d possess though he thinks he is getting away from it. Despite the Greek notions of supreme power of the gods and fate, Oedipus downfall is primarily the result of King Laius and his own actions and attempts to defy the gods, consequently Sophocles says that prophecies from the gods of someones fate should not be ignored. Prophecies from the Oracle of Delphi are told to King Laius and Queen Jocasta, and to Oedipus. Sophocles says that prophecies from the gods of someones fate should not be ignored when King Laius went to the Oracle of Delphi and received a prophecy that his child, Oedipus, was going to kill him and sweep up his wife, Jacosta. sheepman - No No I said it before--I gave him the child...It was the son of Laius, so I was told. But the lady i nside, your wife, she is the one to tell you. Oedipus - Did she give it to you? Shepherd - Yes, my lord, she did...To destroy it...She was afraid of dreadful prophecies...The child would kill its parents, that was the story. Oedipus - Then wherefore did you give it to this old man here? Shepherd - In grace master. I thought he would take it away to a opposed country-- to the place he came from. If you are the man he says you are, you were born the almost unfortunate of men. (86-89) When King Laius heard this prophecy and returned to Thebes to tell of this prophecy to his wife, they mean to kill their child, but neither had the guts to do it. They had a consideration shepherd bring their child to Mt. Cithaeron to kill it, but the servant snarl pity for the child and gave him to a fellow Shepherd from Corinth in hopes he could take it to a foreign country to take care of it. Sophocles says that prophecies from the gods of someones fate should not be ignored when he tells that when Oedipus was in the care of his comfort parents, Polybus and Merope, he took a journey to The Oracle of Delphi without them knowing.