In Oedipus Rex, could Oedipus have avoided his fate?

The entire play is
built around an inevitable fate for . He is a character who was born to suffer this . In a
sense, the play's intensity and tragic ending relies on the huge dramaticthat exists: from the
very beginning, the audience knows the true identity of Oedipus, but this is only something that
he gradually becomes aware of before the final realisation. There is no sense therefore
in...