Oedipus Innocent Of Fate Quotes

In Oedipus the King, Oedipus marries his mom and kills his father. In doing so Oedipus acts without knowledge because he does not know he killed his real dad. He does not realize that because he does not know that Laios was his real dad. Which led Oedipus to try and change his fate but ended up following it anyway. From the moment Oedipus was born, he had a predestined fate for him which was to kill his dad and marry his mom but Oedipus is innocent of fate because he acts without knowledge.
Oedipus was given away at birth to be killed because of his predestined fate. Laios knew about Oedipus’ fate and the bad outcome he would receive. Laios decides to give Oedipus to the shepherd so that the shepherd would kill Oedipus. The shepherd instead gave Oedipus to Polybos because he did not want to do the deed in killing deed in killing Oedipus. The shepherd said “I did. I wish that day I had died,” (Sophocles 1308) the quote shows how Oedipus never got to know his biological parents because he was given away at birth to be killed. It then led …show more content…
The messenger said “Polybos was no relation to you,” (1159) the quote is showing how Polybos was not his biological father therefore leading Oedipus to stay away from the wrong person. Staying away from his false parents led Oedipus to kill Laios and marry Jocasta. If Oedipus knew his biological parents he would have stayed away from Laios and Jocasta so that Oedipus could prolong his fate and even put an end to his fate. Instead of staying away from Polybos which led Oedipus to follow his fate. If he would have stayed with Polybos he would have never crossed paths with Laios. For that to happen he would had to have found out who his real parents were. Oedipus has false information about who his real parents are because he was given away at birth. So he acts without knowledge leading him to the actions he