Fate: Fate And Fate In Oedipus The King
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Fate is the belief that a person's life is being controlled by destiny while free will is the belief that a person's life is being controlled by themselves where they choose how to live their life and without an external force. Although this topic has divided people for many centuries, many famous poets and authors have used this to their advantage. One example of fate versus free will is Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Oedipus Rex should be considered to be categorized as a free will drama because of several events that happen that shows Oedipus free will, such as the example of the messenger telling Jocasta the good news, 2“MESSENGER: The people of Isthmus will choose Oedipus to be their king. That is the rumor there.” (1061-1062) The Messenger …show more content…
Oedipus adoptive parents decide to omit the truth and not mention that they are his adoptive parents. Even though they are not aware of the prophecy, both show their free will to hide the truth from Oedipus. Some gods had an Oedipus-like experience not meaning an exact experience, but similar. Such as Zeus, Uranus, and Gaia because Zeus killed his father and Uranus, and Gaia had a relationship even though Gaia was Uranus mother. Teiresias, the old and the blind prophet, is a major reason why Oedipus Rex should be free will instead of fate. Even Though, many oracles have gone blind because of fate Teiresias went blind because he chooses to. 3 Teiresias was spying on the goddess Athena when she found him spying on her while she was taking a shower she punished Teiresias for his actions (Greek Mythology). Every human being has desires, and we control our actions and we handle our desires and Teiresias did not escape this. 4“MESSENGER: The people of Isthmus will choose Oedipus to be their king. That is the rumor there.” (1061-1062). It might have just been a rumor, but, it is still free will because someone decided to spread the word. After all, a person has the freedom to think and to say what they want, when they …show more content…
If Oedipus's adoptive parents would not have noticed him, then he would not have escaped from home to go to his birthplace. If Oedipus did not run away from home, he would not have killed his father on the way to Thebes. Subsequently causing Oedipus to marry and have kids with his mother. After all, they showed free will but ruined their lives forever. They decided how everything was going to end, they decided who kill, marry, and how many kids to have. In summary, Oedipus Rex deserves the title of a free will drama because most characters have to decide what to do, how to act and what to say. For instance, the Oracle and Oedipus adoptive parent’s not telling Oedipus the full truth. Also, the story behind how Teiresias lost his sense of sight. Oedipus’s story of Alabama Section 13A-13-3, inter-familial relationships, and the causes of one person panicking. Finally, Oedipus Rex has many examples of free will, but the important thing is to find these example, one has to expand their mind, think outside the box and go against the
In this essay, the author
- Explains that fate is the belief that a person's life is being controlled by destiny, while free will is based on their choice. oedipus rex by sophocles is an example of fate versus freedom.
- Analyzes how the oracle prefers to omit to tell oedipus the whole truth about his adoptive parents, even though they are not aware of the prophecy.
- Explains that teiresias, the old and the blind prophet, is a major reason why oedipus rex should be free will instead of fate.
- Explains that fate is the belief that a person's life is being controlled by destiny, while free will is based on their choice. oedipus rex by sophocles is an example of fate versus freedom.
- Analyzes how the oracle prefers to omit to tell oedipus the whole truth about his adoptive parents, even though they are not aware of the prophecy.
- Explains that teiresias, the old and the blind prophet, is a major reason why oedipus rex should be free will instead of fate.
- Explains that the people of isthmus will choose oedipus to be their king. it is still free will because someone decided to spread the word.
- Analyzes how oedipus' inter-familial relationships are a clear example of free will, since he chose who to marry and why. in ancient greece, having relationships with family members was common.
- Explains that oedipus shared many similarities with the prophecy, but, the oracle had already made a mistake once it could have done it again.
- Opines that if oedipus' adoptive parents hadn't panicked about the prophecy, he would not have escaped from home and killed his father on the way to thebes.
- Opines that oedipus rex deserves the title of a free will drama because most characters have to decide what to do, how to act and what they say.
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- Analyzes how oedipus' childhood has to have been pre-planned by someone or something. king laius and mother jocasta receive word from the oracles that he will murder his father and marry his mother.
- Analyzes how oedipus is to blame for laius' murder, but that's not the worst part of the scenario.
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- Analyzes how oedipus' childhood has to have been pre-planned by someone or something. king laius and mother jocasta receive word from the oracles that he will murder his father and marry his mother.
- Analyzes how oedipus is to blame for laius' murder, but that's not the worst part of the scenario.
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- Analyzes how the greeks believe that people cannot change their fate, but they can take responsibility for what fate has brought them. oedipus must act as a true and loyal king contrary to his ignorance and predetermined fate.
- Analyzes how oedipus is taken back by the situation and accuses tiresias of lying to him so that creon could take the throne.
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- Analyzes how oedipus is taken back by the situation and accuses tiresias of lying to him so that creon could take the throne.
- Analyzes how oedipus is not just a puppet of the gods, meaning he can control his own life. he tries to flee town in order to avoid marrying his mother.
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- Explains that oedipus' choice to leave corinth was one of his own free will, showing that destiny was not the factor that caused the horrific conditions in his life.
- Analyzes how oedipus made the decision to kill out of rage after learning of the prophecy that he would kill his father. he killed the herald, the man being driven, and some of his servants.
- Analyzes the debate between fate and choice in oedipus the king, a greek tragedy written by sophocles.
- Explains that oedipus' choice to leave corinth was one of his own free will, showing that destiny was not the factor that caused the horrific conditions in his life.
- Analyzes how oedipus made the decision to kill out of rage after learning of the prophecy that he would kill his father. he killed the herald, the man being driven, and some of his servants.
- Analyzes how oedipus relied on what he knew, proving that fate was not the reason that his life turned out that way. he had teiresias tell him who was responsible for the problems in the city.
- Analyzes how the story of oedipus the king examines whether a person's life is controlled by fate, or by the person himself.
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- Opines that oedipus was a victim of fate, but he was no puppet, and actively sought his doom. he was warned of the inevitable repercussions of his actions.
- Explains why oedipus, in the act of gouging his eyes out, cries explicitly.
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- Explains why oedipus, in the act of gouging his eyes out, cries explicitly.
- Explains that the friend declared that oedipus was aware that he alone was responsible for his actions. they stayed silent and urged roy to look at him as a hero who was trying to assert his rights.
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- Analyzes how rosenberg and nagle agree that death was the inevitable and final fate of the hero.
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- Opines that if i lose you, it would be better for me to die.
- Opines that it would be a mistake to view the hero as someone who is devoid of compassion. hector also shows how much he cares for andromache.
- Opines that they know and are certain that the day is coming.
- Opines that it will carry you away in tears, and end your days of freedom.
- Narrates how a man will say, as he sees you weeping, 'this is the wife.
- Compares the dialogue between oedipus and jocasta, when she begs him not to pursue his inquiry regarding his origin, and that of hector and andromache.
- Analyzes how oedipus shows his compassionate nature when he tells the plague-stricken citizens of thebes about his feelings for their distress.
- Analyzes how the hero's conscious choice to pursue and accept his doom makes him a tragic figure.
- Analyzes how the hero's unyielding resolve to accept his doom gives him dignity, nobility, and grandeur that do not tarnish with the passage of time.
- Opines that oedipus is a tragic figure because of his heroic qualities, his loyalty to thebes, and his fidelity to the truth that ruined him.
- Explains that the royal house of thebes has a long history of undeserved misfortune, starting with cadmus and harmonia.
- Explains that the oracle's prophecy is unconditional, and what he foretells is "inevitably and inexorably bound to happen no matter what oedipus may have done to avoid it."
- Concludes that oedipus was a victim of fate, but he was no puppet. he sought his doom in thebes, and claimed full responsibility when choragos asked what god drove him to blind himself.
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- Explains that the greeks believed in the idea that personality of the individual greatly affected his or her life.
- Analyzes how oedipus pushes tiresias, creon, jocasta, the oracle, messenger, and the shepherd for information regarding his beginnings.
- Analyzes the themes of fate and free will in sophocles' oedipus the king, but only one brought about his downfall and death. in ancient greece, fate was a rudimentary part of daily life.
- Explains that the greeks believed in the idea that personality of the individual greatly affected his or her life.
- Analyzes how oedipus pushes tiresias, creon, jocasta, the oracle, messenger, and the shepherd for information regarding his beginnings.
- Analyzes how oedipus demonstrates an important trait in his character, stubbornness, when he reacted to the man pushing him aside at the crossroads.
- Analyzes how oedipus defeated the sphinx by solving the riddle. he could have refused to take the missing king's throne, or declined to marry the former.
- Analyzes how jocasta and laius' actions were not made by their own judgement, but reactions to a situation that neither of them was prepared to deal with.
- Analyzes how jocasta and lauis never sent oedipus to die as an infant. he wouldn't have engaged in misled wandering after he left his adopted home.
- Analyzes how oedipus' desire for knowledge can be looked at by the standpoint of fate. he can't escape the fate the gods have given him.
- Analyzes how the gods played apart in oedipus' prophecy to kill his own father, which was unavoidable because of his stubbornness. his personality was the cause of the events.
- Analyzes how the prophecy given to lauis and jocasta is another example of unavoidable fate. the gods dictated what was going to happen, leading to the vanquishing of oedipus.
- Analyzes how the greatest show of fate in the text is when oedipus gauges his eyes out with the golden clips. the gods controlled his personality and therefore controlled the outcome of his life.
- Explains that free will and fate can be related to every aspect of oedipus the king. the gods who control fate manipulate the thinking and concepts in human's freewill.
- Analyzes how sophocles' oedipus the king shows that mankind has the ability, even with prophecies, to make choices free from influence of divine forces.
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- Analyzes how oedipus rex's prophecy serves as a basis on which the nature of his destiny can be judged.
- Analyzes how the inescapability of destiny is illustrated in the fulfillment of the future that the characters desperately avoid.
- Analyzes how human control over destiny has found its way into themes in great works of literature, such as sophocles' oedipus rex and alighieri's the inferno.
- Analyzes how oedipus rex's prophecy serves as a basis on which the nature of his destiny can be judged.
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- Analyzes how dante's inferno presents how man has power over his destiny, illustrated by the existence of the afterlife.
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- Opines that oedipus's life was a factor of his life and even with "free will", there was no way to prevent his death.
- Analyzes how he cries, “he’d kill a king?” to hide him from his search.
- Narrates how jocasta convinces him that his father is outraged, and he is reassured.
- Opines that oedipus's life was a factor of his life and even with "free will", there was no way to prevent his death.
- Analyzes how he cries, “he’d kill a king?” to hide him from his search.
- Narrates how jocasta convinces him that his father is outraged, and he is reassured.
- Narrates how oedipus is told that he was adopted and rushes to the hospital.
- Opines that if we knew our fate, do we have the power of a higher power?
- Opines that oedipus, king, begs and pleads with him to lend his greatness to their aid.
- Analyzes how oedipus sent creon to the oracle to find a remedy for his city's troubles, but the brash king refused to listen.
- Narrates how tiresias summons the prophet to clarify the oracle. he is well aware of the killer’s identity and is unwilling to reveal it.
- Narrates how laius declared that doom would strike him down at the hands of a son, born of our own flesh and blood.
- Opines that because of "free will", his "fate" can be changed. the boy's father fastened his ankles and had a henchman.
- Narrates how their son's horrifying future led them to make a choice that changed the future.
- Analyzes how young oedipus is shuffled further along to his fate. he might have died and nullified the prophesy, but was instead rescued by a shepherd and given to yet another.
- Analyzes how fate propels oedipus forward toward his end. he says of the shepherd, "curse him, kill him!"
- Narrates how oedipus leaves the oracle at delphi knowing no more about his birth parents, but is finally told of the prophesy of his incest and patricide.
- Opines that oedipus fully intended to kill the man he met on the road, but we can't say his intent was free will.
- Opines that oedipus would never have been on the road where the killing took place if polybus and his wife had told him the truth before he set out.
- Analyzes how he solves the sphinx's confounding riddle outside the city gates and wins the hand of his mother jocasta in marriage.
- Opines that oedipus isn't free of the bothersome hands of fate in his life leading up to the dramatic climax.
- Explains that the decision-making left to him is no more consequential than whether to doggie-paddle or breaststroke in a furious sea.
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- Analyzes how oedipus was predicted to have bad fate when he was born to the king and queen of thebes, laius and jocasta, and the shepherd didn't kill him.
- Analyzes how oedipus ended up going back to where he was born, thebes. he had to make a choice to which one to follow.
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- Analyzes how oedipus was predicted to have bad fate when he was born to the king and queen of thebes, laius and jocasta, and the shepherd didn't kill him.
- Analyzes how oedipus ended up going back to where he was born, thebes. he had to make a choice to which one to follow.
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- Opines that when determining whether fate or free will determined the outcome of oedipus' life, we must take in to consideration each side.
- Explains that fate is a force or power that predetermines events or an inevitable events predestined by force. oedipus' fate in life was sealed for him to be exiled and alone before he was even born.
- Explains that oedipus' questioning of the delphic oracle as to who was his biological parents led to him being involved in the foretold fate of his father, laius.
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- Explains that fate is a force or power that predetermines events or an inevitable events predestined by force. oedipus' fate in life was sealed for him to be exiled and alone before he was even born.
- Explains that oedipus' questioning of the delphic oracle as to who was his biological parents led to him being involved in the foretold fate of his father, laius.
- Analyzes how oedipus was so oblivious to the prophecies that he killed laius. he believed they were plotting against him or trying to take over the kingdom.
- Analyzes how oedipus' life turned out because he didn't know that laius and jocasta were his biological parents. he believed that merope was his mother and polybus his father.
- Narrates how oedipus left corinth for thebes after consulting the oracle and meeting laius, his biological father.
- Analyzes how oedipus solved the riddle given by the sphinx. he would not have married jocasta if he hadn't taken any notice.
- Explains that oedipus chose free will in consulting the oracles when the people complained of the plagues to the city and their sickness. by sending creon, his brother-in-law he opened up a can of worms that led to his demise.
- Analyzes creon's advice that the oracle gave was to locate the person or persons that killed their former ruler, laius. oedipus began the investigation by calling in other soothsayers who do not wish to speak regarding the murder of their king.
- Analyzes how oedipus cared for his parents by taking the problem, meaning himself, out of the equation. he ran to the place where the prophecy was destine to be fulfilled.
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- Explains that fate and freewill have never truly been proven to mankind. the play, oedipus the king, is a myth about the great ruler who is going against his fate.
- Analyzes how oedipus was offended by the prophet teiresias who killed king laius, so he told him to leave.
- Narrates how the king accused creon of plotting to blame laius' death on the king. jocasta sat down to talk to her husband about how prophets are fake and the real story.
- Explains that fate and freewill have never truly been proven to mankind. the play, oedipus the king, is a myth about the great ruler who is going against his fate.
- Analyzes how oedipus was offended by the prophet teiresias who killed king laius, so he told him to leave.
- Narrates how the king accused creon of plotting to blame laius' death on the king. jocasta sat down to talk to her husband about how prophets are fake and the real story.
- Analyzes how the messenger told the king that polybus was not his actual father. oedipus was stunned and scared to find out he was given away to a messenger.
- Analyzes how the herdsman said that the child was given to him by jocasta later saying, "your wife will tell you best how all this was."
- Analyzes how king oedipus was traumatized by the fact that teiresias was right about how the king had killed his own parents.
- Explains that oedipus' destiny was chosen by powers outside of his control, and he could do nothing to change it. he was enraged and bothered to hear this horrible news and began to accuse creon.
993 wordsRead More - Oedipus the Freeanalytical essayThe question of free will is explored in Sophocles’ tragedy, Oedipus The King. Although it was prophesied that Oedipus would kill his father and bed his mother, the truth of the prophecy would never have been discovered if not for Oedipus’ rash decisions. Oedipus’ prideful, stubborn, and arrogant choices hastened his doom and added to the destruction his demise caused. Each choice Oedipus made took him further down the path toward his fate, but at each crossroad he had the chance to turn back. Oedipus was the master of his own destiny.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that fate versus free will is like a map. one's fate, but the paths, or freewill, is what controls when and how one will get there.
- Analyzes how oedipus' excessive pride pushes him to reveal the truth of the murder of king laius.
- Analyzes how oedipus' stubborn choice to pursue the mystery of king laius’ death despite the warnings of others fostered his doom.
- Explains that fate versus free will is like a map. one's fate, but the paths, or freewill, is what controls when and how one will get there.
- Analyzes how oedipus' excessive pride pushes him to reveal the truth of the murder of king laius.
- Analyzes how oedipus' stubborn choice to pursue the mystery of king laius’ death despite the warnings of others fostered his doom.
- Analyzes how oedipus could have handled his situation many different ways, but chose to injure himself as punishment for his crimes. he pushes for banishment, which only deepens his suffering.
- Analyzes how the question of free will is explored in sophocles' tragedy, oedipus the king.
690 wordsRead More - Fate In Oedipus: Free Will And Fateanalytical essayHis desire for knowledge along with continuously trying to find answers about himself, is something the Gods did to make him that way. I think that no matter what Oedipus chose as his path it could not be averted. He can not escape the fate that was chosen by the Gods, no matter what would have happened through out the play he would still have ended killing his father and marrying his mother. When Oedipus reached the cross roads where he killed his father, it was fate that led him there, “short work, but god with one blow of the staff”. This demonstrates that he did not have free will in this choice because there was events that led him there where he would kill his father. Although he was using his own decision making he was not able to change his fate. The way he handles things because oh who he has become is something that eventually makes his fate come
In this essay, the author
- Explains that free will is the ability to make your own decisions when confronted with problems in order to have an outcome you desire.
- Explains that the greeks believed in the idea that personality was what determined their own free will. oedipus has characteristic traits of a leader, strong, respected, stubborn and the desire for knowledge and truth about his life
- Analyzes how oedipus is blind sighted by trying to find answers to his questions. his stubbornness led him to get angry and unknowingly kill his father.
- Explains that free will is the ability to make your own decisions when confronted with problems in order to have an outcome you desire.
- Explains that the greeks believed in the idea that personality was what determined their own free will. oedipus has characteristic traits of a leader, strong, respected, stubborn and the desire for knowledge and truth about his life
- Analyzes how oedipus is blind sighted by trying to find answers to his questions. his stubbornness led him to get angry and unknowingly kill his father.
- Analyzes how oedipus overcame the riddle and saved the city of thebes. he could have denied to take the role of king and chose not to marry the missing king’s wife.
- Analyzes how jocasta and lauis demonstrate free will. they were put in situations they weren't prepared to deal with and that led to them making choices they wouldn t normally make, going against their own judgment.
- Analyzes how oedipus' stubbornness led him to his tragic events. he could not escape the fate that was chosen by the gods.
- Analyzes how oedipus finds out the truth about himself and the prophecy concludes him in taking out his own eyes because he is ashamed of himself.
- Concludes that oedipus the king is just another example of how no matter how much we think we have free will, it will ultimately lead to how our fate is predetermined.
1239 wordsRead More - Oedipus the King: The Free Will of Oedipusanalytical essayEven though "fate" seems to determine Oedipus' life, he does, in fact, have a free will.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how oedipus' choices brought the prophecy to life. only his decisions were in side of the limits set by fate.
- Analyzes how the prophecy drove oedipus away from home; the terror of the predictions was too much to live with. he married an older lady when he came to thebes.
- Explains that oedipus' quest for truth was his choice when the teiresias tried not to reveal the truth.
- Analyzes how oedipus' choices brought the prophecy to life. only his decisions were in side of the limits set by fate.
- Analyzes how the prophecy drove oedipus away from home; the terror of the predictions was too much to live with. he married an older lady when he came to thebes.
- Explains that oedipus' quest for truth was his choice when the teiresias tried not to reveal the truth.
- Analyzes how oedipus accuses creon of truing to take his powers away from him. he faces that he might kill the king laius.
- Explains that oedipus' fate was determined before he was born, and by trying to overcome it, a prophesy became reality.
352 wordsRead More - Fate in "Oedipus the King"analytical essayIn the story, “Oedipus the King” before Oedipus became king of Thebes, he made choices that led to events that defined his fate. The first event emerged when Oedipus heard a drunken man saying that the ones who cared for Oedipus at Corinth were not his biological parents. The terrible news is what set forth the very first steps towards the beginning of the events that led to his fate. Oedipus confused and interested in the truth, went on to speak with God. However, the God did not answer what Oedipus questioned and instead had his fate foretold. “The god dismissed my question without reply; he spoke of other things. Some were clear, full of wretchedness, dreadful, unbearable: As, that I should lie with my own mother, breed children from all men would turn their eyes; and that I should be my father’s murderer,” (Gioia, 2010). Oedipus still unfamiliar, of who his parents were, chose to flee from home in attempt to prevent the God’s statement of his fate from coming true. Oedipus’ choice of fleeing the country was perhaps a bad decision. It was what led him to experience the first event of his fate. As Oedipus goes his...
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how sophocles, in "oedipus the king," defines fate as something that unavoidably befalls a person.
- Analyzes how oedipus made choices that led to events that defined his fate, such as a drunken man saying that the ones who cared for him at corinth were not his biological parents.
- Analyzes how oedipus accepted the reward as ruler and husband of the widowed queen of thebes after solving the sphinx riddle that many tried but failed and died.
- Analyzes how sophocles, in "oedipus the king," defines fate as something that unavoidably befalls a person.
- Analyzes how oedipus made choices that led to events that defined his fate, such as a drunken man saying that the ones who cared for him at corinth were not his biological parents.
- Analyzes how oedipus accepted the reward as ruler and husband of the widowed queen of thebes after solving the sphinx riddle that many tried but failed and died.
- Analyzes how oedipus portrayed great importance in finding the one who murdered king laios, and was blind enough to not realize that he himself was the killer.
- Explains that the bible states that every individual was born with the ability to make moral choices and that he is responsible for those choices.
- Analyzes how "oedipus the king" is a great play that sets an example of what fate is.
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