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Oedipus' Destiny
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Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus is a tragic play that discusses the tragic discovery of Oedipus that he has killed his father and married his mother. In Greek mythology, oracles or gods are rarely wrong in their predictions of the future. Yet Oedipus still tries to fight the predictions. Is Oedipus’ do ....
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.... question, but tells him that he would kill his father whom Oedipus believes to be King Polybus and marry his mother. In the fear of these events taking place, he leaves his home. “Oedipus: … my father was Polybus of Corinth… ” (p. 18) to “ … where I could never see that infamous prophecy fulfilled.” (p.19). And his fate becomes reality.
Instead of escaping from the prophecy’s prediction Oedipus runs right into his fate. On a road leading to Thebes he kills his real father King Laius – in a qua.... |
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