very strongly makes the point that fate, not free will, rules the
world. What the gods decree will occur, and it is futile for humans to fight this
reality.
is born with an unfortunate fate: he is destined to kill his father
and marry his mother. Along the way, he and others try to sidestep this fate: his birth parents,
for example, have him exposed as an infant so that he will die. That way they expect to dodge
their own tragic destiny. However, the infant is saved.
When he finds out
his fate as a young adult, Oedipus, too, tries to dodge it by fleeing Corinth and the people he
thinks are his real parents. In attempting to run away from his destiny, Oedipus...
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