Oedipus Fate Vs Free Will Essay
Oedipus made some bad decisions in his life, but it doesn’t matter what decisions he made because his fate was already determined and you can never escape fate. Oedipus was destined to his fate, free will allows him to make decisions that make seem as though he could avoid his destiny, he was foretold his fate and he tried to avoid it. So Oedipus really had no control over what happened because the path was set and it was all going to happen one way or another.
Oedipus is destined to his fate. It is not truly his free will because his path was already determined, which meant that Oedipus was never going to be able to avoid it. For example “TIRESIAS He shall be proved the brother and the sire, Of her who bare him son and husband both, Co-partner, and assassin of his sire,” (13). Tiresias (the drunk …show more content…
Free will and fate aren’t completely compatible either because free will is basically the ability to make your own decisions but in this case his reaction actually sealed his fate, Oedipus merely had the illusion of control. In his attempt at controlling of the events of his life. For example, it was Oedipus’ free will to move from where his adoptive parents live and it was also his free will for him to kill his father,and have kids with his mother,it was also Oedipus’s free will to keep searching for the truth when he could’ve just lived happily in denial. In the book it said “To die by my child's hand, but he, poor babe, He shed no blood, but perished first himself. So much for divination. Henceforth I Will look for signs neither to right nor left,”(23). He didn’t choose to do these things, it was fate that he did those things because Tiresias was able to tell him what was going to happen, and even if he didn’t do exactly that he still would’ve followed his prophecy by marrying his mother and killing his father, he just would’ve done it in another
Oedipus is destined to his fate. It is not truly his free will because his path was already determined, which meant that Oedipus was never going to be able to avoid it. For example “TIRESIAS He shall be proved the brother and the sire, Of her who bare him son and husband both, Co-partner, and assassin of his sire,” (13). Tiresias (the drunk …show more content…
Free will and fate aren’t completely compatible either because free will is basically the ability to make your own decisions but in this case his reaction actually sealed his fate, Oedipus merely had the illusion of control. In his attempt at controlling of the events of his life. For example, it was Oedipus’ free will to move from where his adoptive parents live and it was also his free will for him to kill his father,and have kids with his mother,it was also Oedipus’s free will to keep searching for the truth when he could’ve just lived happily in denial. In the book it said “To die by my child's hand, but he, poor babe, He shed no blood, but perished first himself. So much for divination. Henceforth I Will look for signs neither to right nor left,”(23). He didn’t choose to do these things, it was fate that he did those things because Tiresias was able to tell him what was going to happen, and even if he didn’t do exactly that he still would’ve followed his prophecy by marrying his mother and killing his father, he just would’ve done it in another