A wise poet by the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” In the story Oedipus The King, a man is told by a prophet that in his life he will kill his father and marry his mother. To avoid this he moves away from his so called parents who are actually his adoptive parents, and long story short he kills a man who was his father, and marries a woman who ends up being his mother. Many people will say that your life is set in stone and you can’t do anything to change it, but that’s where I disagree. Oedipus has control of his own destiny; despite the actions of the Oracle, God gives him the option to choose what he wants to do, and he could have better controlled his
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Those choices, which may seem small are what come together to form a person's destiny. The decision that Oedipus made to fulfill the duties as King to the people of Thebes was one of those daily choices in all ended him. He easily could have humbly denied the proposal of him becoming King and then he would have never married his mother but I think he was too worried about the Oracle to think straightly. Before he had left his village of Corinth he stated that he was,”Full of wretchedness, dreadful, and unbearable” (Sophocles 63). If was thinking straightly and truly wanted to not fulfill the Oracle's prediction then he would have remained single and not married anyone his entire life.
In life controlling your emotions and responses play key roles in the outcome of your life as Bruce Lee once said, “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” Oedipus's quick temper came about when he had an overreaction to a nobleman instructing him to move out if the road for the man to get past him. Oedipus is struck by the man and that ended it for him, he quickly struck back and then said, “I knocked him out of his car, and he rolled on the ground. I killed him” (Sophocles 64). This man was Oedipus’s father, he could have easily avoided killing him if he had just practiced simple
Those choices, which may seem small are what come together to form a person's destiny. The decision that Oedipus made to fulfill the duties as King to the people of Thebes was one of those daily choices in all ended him. He easily could have humbly denied the proposal of him becoming King and then he would have never married his mother but I think he was too worried about the Oracle to think straightly. Before he had left his village of Corinth he stated that he was,”Full of wretchedness, dreadful, and unbearable” (Sophocles 63). If was thinking straightly and truly wanted to not fulfill the Oracle's prediction then he would have remained single and not married anyone his entire life.
In life controlling your emotions and responses play key roles in the outcome of your life as Bruce Lee once said, “A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.” Oedipus's quick temper came about when he had an overreaction to a nobleman instructing him to move out if the road for the man to get past him. Oedipus is struck by the man and that ended it for him, he quickly struck back and then said, “I knocked him out of his car, and he rolled on the ground. I killed him” (Sophocles 64). This man was Oedipus’s father, he could have easily avoided killing him if he had just practiced simple