Oedipus the King

Oedipus the king written by sophecles when read for the first time the reader will realize that the audience already knows what is going to happen its just the way that the characters deal will with it. There is an oracle that says that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother.
Sophecles examines the relationship between fate and free will.
Fate being what some say is an excuse. For example if I said that I could not do what I wanted to do I could say it was fate, which is junk.
What is fate?   Fate is something that is supposedly set out for some one when they are born. Fate pertaining to the play oedipus rex is that the mother queen locasta and the father king Laios have learned from an oracle that their son Oedipus was to kill his father and marry his mother. So in an effort to get away from this horrible fate, they give their son to a shepered to pierce his ankles and to never be seen again. They thought that was the end of it. Thus making Oedipus an outcast from his kingdom that when his father leaves is his to rule. But their son oedipus, who grows up in corinth finds that the king and queen there are not his biological parents. He sets out to find his parents on the way he kills all but one man on a caravan that tried to run him off   the road.(later to be found out that it was his father king lois. In the story sophecles uses fate and free will to keep the drama going There by making it a dramatic technique. Friedrich nietzsche talks about how finding out your fate before hand gives you knowledge of what oedipus wanted to not come true unconsciously has come true. (Neitzsche29blooms)   This basically means that if Oedipus had lived with his parents and had his parents not have given him up he could have probably avoided all of this. But since this did not happen Oedipus is forced to fend for himself.   So fate is something that many people use an excuse for something that they have not yet accomplished. Also fate plays a big part in the play because... [continues]

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