Predetermined Destiny of Oedipus
The word destiny can be a delicate topic to discuss since people have contrasting opinions about it. Some people think that everyone has the free will to create their own destiny and how we act and live our lives is how our destiny is shaped and lived. Others think that from the moment we are born, our destiny is already predetermined and nothing we do will change our story. In the play “Oedipus the King” we see how Oedipus’ destiny is a predetermined future that is inescapable. From the moment, Oedipus learned about the tragedy he would experience through a prophecy, he tried to defy his destiny and that in turn lead to his tragic drama.
Oedipus’ tragic heroic destiny all started when “a drunken man, accused …show more content…
After much more analysis with Jocasta, the Messenger, and finally the Herdsman, the truth was confirmed to Oedipus, that truth that Oedipus feared so much to hear. Oedipus was indeed “one of the children of Laius” (1236). He was that child who one day Laius and Jocasta abandoned on the mountain to die. It was Oedipus who killed his real father that day “near the branching of the crossroads” (877) and without knowing, later married his mother, Jocasta. He tried to defy his destiny and he couldn’t escape from it.
Without doubt we see how unfortunately Oedipus did not escape his destiny. He did all he could to defeat the prophecy given to him. He battled through the killing of a man, whom he did not know was his father at the time. He triumphed through solving the riddle of the Sphinx. And from solving the riddle he succeeded in marrying the dead king’s wife, whom he did not know was his own mother. Nothing Oedipus did helped him escape his destiny. The destiny that was once revealed to him by a prophecy was the same one that would end Oedipus’ tragic
The word destiny can be a delicate topic to discuss since people have contrasting opinions about it. Some people think that everyone has the free will to create their own destiny and how we act and live our lives is how our destiny is shaped and lived. Others think that from the moment we are born, our destiny is already predetermined and nothing we do will change our story. In the play “Oedipus the King” we see how Oedipus’ destiny is a predetermined future that is inescapable. From the moment, Oedipus learned about the tragedy he would experience through a prophecy, he tried to defy his destiny and that in turn lead to his tragic drama.
Oedipus’ tragic heroic destiny all started when “a drunken man, accused …show more content…
After much more analysis with Jocasta, the Messenger, and finally the Herdsman, the truth was confirmed to Oedipus, that truth that Oedipus feared so much to hear. Oedipus was indeed “one of the children of Laius” (1236). He was that child who one day Laius and Jocasta abandoned on the mountain to die. It was Oedipus who killed his real father that day “near the branching of the crossroads” (877) and without knowing, later married his mother, Jocasta. He tried to defy his destiny and he couldn’t escape from it.
Without doubt we see how unfortunately Oedipus did not escape his destiny. He did all he could to defeat the prophecy given to him. He battled through the killing of a man, whom he did not know was his father at the time. He triumphed through solving the riddle of the Sphinx. And from solving the riddle he succeeded in marrying the dead king’s wife, whom he did not know was his own mother. Nothing Oedipus did helped him escape his destiny. The destiny that was once revealed to him by a prophecy was the same one that would end Oedipus’ tragic