Oedipus, like his parents, did everything possible to change the course of his fate. Fate and destiny is not something he could not escape from. Christopher S. Nassar and Michael Jacobs clearly believe that Oedipus could not change his fate; they even suggest he is guilty for fulfilling the prophecy and could have delayed his fate or lessened it if he would have let the oracle run its course instead of running from it; by running, Oedipus fulfilled the oracle without him knowing and may have lived the rest of his life in regret. Oedipus was determined not to fulfill the oracle and thought he could run away from his fate. Unknowingly he still fulfilled the oracle; fate is something neither him nor his parents were able to avoid. “He, and indeed
