Predetermined Fate In Sophocles Oedipus The King

It finally settled in, Oedipus was in disbelieve of his discovery, he’d killed his own father and slept with his mother. He enacted the very same prophecy he desperately tried to avoid. In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus attempts to solve the mystery of the death of the former King Laius in order to save the city from the plague. His attempt leads him to another mystery leads him to the message from the message from the message about how he’s not truly the son of King Polybos and Queen Merope of Corinth. All in all, Oedipus finds out that he is indeed the murderer of former King Laius and that he’s slept with his mother Iocasta, fulfilling the prophecy that was given before birth. The story suggests that we are catalysts of our doom and we are all subject to our predetermined fate.
He left Corinth, in reaction to the prophecy to protect his “parents”, but he was actually headed to his real parents in Thebes. Oedipus had no way of knowing that Polybos and Merope weren’t his real parents. This implies that no matter what we are blind to the situation we find ourselves in, it also implies that no matter our efforts, it is futile to attempt to change one’s destiny. When Oedipus brought in Tiresias in search for the truth Teiresias told him “I have no more to say; storm as thou willst, And give the rein to all thy pent-up rage”. Teiresias insists that, regardless of what he does or says, fate will play itself