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Fate In Oedipus The King
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“Oedipus the King” is a story about fate, and a story about character. Oedipus has a predetermined fate that he tries to escape; however, it is the eccentricities of his character that bring about changes in Oedipus’ situation. It may have been that his life was predetermined by a prophecy but it ....
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.... travels he would meet and kill his own father, and coincidentally solve the riddle that brought him to the throne in Thebes, and into his mother’s bed. Perhaps some sort of divine intervention induced these events to happen, because the chance of everything working out so perfectly was not likely. “Laios was murdered as the oracle foretold (1075).” It was fate that led Oedipus to the correct location.
Fate also played a role in Oedipus’ survival as a baby. When his real parents in Thebes .... |
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