Fate And Freewill In Oedipus The King
One of the strongest themes in all of Greek drama is the conflict between fate and freewill. A lot of people have the need to feel like they have free will. This is clearly seen in the story of Oedipus by Sophocles because in the story all Sophocles ever wanted to do was stay clear of the prophecy that he was going to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Without that feeling of free will what do people really have, just a puppet going through the motions. I have really thought about the moments where I have felt like everything is based upon fate and this normally happens every time everything goes wrong, like the time a tree fell on to our car and 1000’s of bees flew out or the time that I was told that I would never play professional
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This is mostly due to the bad things staying in our mind for a very long time where the good things just happen smoothly and will go on without notice. This is where fate and freewill come into hand because when something bad happens it almost seems like it was destined by fate where whenever something good happens humans (including myself) like to take credit for it and call it free will. My life just like Oedipus is made up of left turns and right turns and sometimes we choose to go right instead of left thinking that right is actually left and in turn when something bad happens because of it the free will of turning right turns into fate. For Oedipus he turned towards a city that he thinks is a completely different one and using his free will to go right instead of left makes the fate of his “curse” become a reality and so he Oedipus kills his father on the road to the city. Where in my life when free will took me to the right instead of going left thinking that right was the right direction when it was infact wrong we met fate in the sense that a tree fell on top of our car. In a since humans can choose the path that we will walk down but we can not choose what we will stumble upon on the path, and so we try to make the path a good one and if all goes to plan we walk right down it and then go right on to the next path until we meet our
This is mostly due to the bad things staying in our mind for a very long time where the good things just happen smoothly and will go on without notice. This is where fate and freewill come into hand because when something bad happens it almost seems like it was destined by fate where whenever something good happens humans (including myself) like to take credit for it and call it free will. My life just like Oedipus is made up of left turns and right turns and sometimes we choose to go right instead of left thinking that right is actually left and in turn when something bad happens because of it the free will of turning right turns into fate. For Oedipus he turned towards a city that he thinks is a completely different one and using his free will to go right instead of left makes the fate of his “curse” become a reality and so he Oedipus kills his father on the road to the city. Where in my life when free will took me to the right instead of going left thinking that right was the right direction when it was infact wrong we met fate in the sense that a tree fell on top of our car. In a since humans can choose the path that we will walk down but we can not choose what we will stumble upon on the path, and so we try to make the path a good one and if all goes to plan we walk right down it and then go right on to the next path until we meet our