Fate In Oedipus The King
Fate plays a very extensive role in Oedipus’s life. Nearly his entire life was influenced by his fate whether it be him running away from it or carrying it out. Fate prevented the steps were taken to stop the prophecy. Fate made it so that Teiresias was able to accurately predict that day. The Delphic Oracle told Oedipus his fate causing everything from that point forth to be about avoiding fulfilling the given fate.
Steps were taken at Oedipus's birth and by Oedipus himself to stop his fate from being fulfilled. Jocasta claims, “before our child was three days old, Laius fused his ankles tight together and ordered other men to throw him out on a mountain rock where no one ever goes”(862-865). Oedipus did not die on the rock because he had his fate to fulfill. This is the first point that Oedipus’s life is affected by fate. Oedipus tells us, “my fate to defile my mother’s bed… to murder the father who engendered me. When i heard that, I ran away from Corinth”(951-955). Oedipus took steps on his own to avoid his fate. But …show more content…
Teiresias said, “He will be blind… He will be poor… He will set off for a foreign country”(FRIG I FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN THE LINE NUMBERS!). Teiresias came at Oedipus's request to help find the murderer before it was know that the murderer himself was Oedipus. Teiresias accurately gave Oedipus his fate for that day with pin-point accuracy. Later that day Oedipus says to “hide me somewhere somewhere outside of thebes”(1667) and tells to “nurse [him] now [he is] blind”(1576). After Oedipus discovers Jocasta has hung herself he blinds himself. He later asked to be led far away to the mountain rock his parents originally planned for him to die on. After this is done the prophecy for that day, given by Teiresias, will be completed. If Oedipus fate was not pre-determined Teiresias would not have been able to predict that day to such
Steps were taken at Oedipus's birth and by Oedipus himself to stop his fate from being fulfilled. Jocasta claims, “before our child was three days old, Laius fused his ankles tight together and ordered other men to throw him out on a mountain rock where no one ever goes”(862-865). Oedipus did not die on the rock because he had his fate to fulfill. This is the first point that Oedipus’s life is affected by fate. Oedipus tells us, “my fate to defile my mother’s bed… to murder the father who engendered me. When i heard that, I ran away from Corinth”(951-955). Oedipus took steps on his own to avoid his fate. But …show more content…
Teiresias said, “He will be blind… He will be poor… He will set off for a foreign country”(FRIG I FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN THE LINE NUMBERS!). Teiresias came at Oedipus's request to help find the murderer before it was know that the murderer himself was Oedipus. Teiresias accurately gave Oedipus his fate for that day with pin-point accuracy. Later that day Oedipus says to “hide me somewhere somewhere outside of thebes”(1667) and tells to “nurse [him] now [he is] blind”(1576). After Oedipus discovers Jocasta has hung herself he blinds himself. He later asked to be led far away to the mountain rock his parents originally planned for him to die on. After this is done the prophecy for that day, given by Teiresias, will be completed. If Oedipus fate was not pre-determined Teiresias would not have been able to predict that day to such