What admirable trait is revealed about Oedipus when he finds out the whole truth in Oedipus Rex?

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's is a lesson about the inevitability of one's fate in which
several otherwise-innocent people are drawn together to unwittingly create and perpetuate an
appalling situation which violates all social taboos. Each character is, in some way, trying to
thwart destiny. Laius andare told that their child will grow up to kill his father and marry his
mother. They try to avoid this fate by abandoning the infanton a mountainside to die. The
servant charged with abandoning him tries to prevent Oedipus's death sentence by giving the baby
to another man, who then brings the baby to Oedipus's foster parents, Polybus and Merope.
Polybus and Merope raise Oedipus as their own son, but when he learns as a young man that they
are not his real parents, he demands to know the truth of his origins. Polybus and Merope refuse
to enlighten Oedipus, so Oedipus goes to the oracle at Delphi, where he learns that he is
destined to kill his father and marry his mother....

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