How Does Oedipus The King Determine His Fate

Is our future determined by our choices or is it already set in stone? Oedipus Rex was not supposed to be born. His parents made choices leading to his birth and it angered the gods. They then laid a prophecy out that the baby they bore would kill the father, marry the mother and have her children. Trying to outrun this, they chose to get rid of the baby. In Sophocles play, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is told he is destined a terrible fate. He makes choices throughout the play that seems to lead him to his his downfall. His choices helped determine his fate rather than his fate being set in stone and this shows readers that free will overpowers fate. Everything that happened in the play was due to the choices that were made. When Lauis was a boy he was sent to live in another household of a king. The king treated Lauis as a son and Lauis grew up with the king's blood son Chrysippus. When Oedipus grew older he kidnapped the prince, harmed him, and
This was a great dishonor to the hospitality of the king who took him in. The gods looked at his choices and punished him by saying that he should never have an heir. Fully knowing this, he chose to marry a woman who desired children. Jocasta knowing that Lauis was not to bore children, got him drunk and took advantage of him. She was going to have a baby. Due her choices a prophecy was made by the gods that their child would marry the mom and kill the dad, “An oracle came to Lauis one fine day and it declared that doom would strike him down at the hands of a son, our son, to be born of our own flesh and blood” (Sophocles 784-788). She then