Oedipus And Fate

In the play Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, I see Oedipus as someone who implicated in his own fate via his own actions because of his overwhelming sense of pride, and his ignorance. He believes that his intelligence and cunningness will alter his fate but instead, it was the other way around. The Greeks believed strongly in fate. Fate is defined as a controllable event that is unavoidable and inevitable, meaning it is destined to happen. No matter how one tries to avoid fate, events that lead to another event could be the result of one meeting its fate.
Oedipus’s overwhelming sense of pride will be of a factor in his own fate. When Oedipus was young he visited the Oracle at Delphi with his parents knowing, he was given a terrible