Oedipus Rex Research Paper

My favorite Myth is Oedipus the Theban. I like this story because it shows that a normal human cannot avoid fate, and pride is often our downfall. Sometimes people believe they can take control of their fate and choose their own destinies. They think that they are smart enough to deceive fate into doing what they want. This myth shows people can not belittle fate into letting them choose what happens to them. Human pride takes control and we try to make our own destiny. I think we should try to just live our lives and try to choose that way, not trying to elude what fate has chosen for us to encounter.

The myth is a Greek myth that is dated to have taken place in the "Theban cycle", which is in prehistoric times. I first found the myth on a site called "Owlcation", and the author is "NoYouAreNot". The king of Thebes fled when there was "an usurpation of power" to a neighboring kingdom. He repaid his host by raping his son and taking him to Thebes with him. When his wife gave birth, the Oracle of Delphi said, "the child would kill his father and marry his mother". The king gave the child to a shepherd to abandon on a mountain, not wanting to stain his hands with the babies blood. However, the shepherd didn't abandon him and the baby was adopted by another king. …show more content…
The rest is less complex. So the baby, now grown up, visits the Oracle and is warned he would "kill his father and marry his mother". He doesn't know he's adopted, so he goes to Thebes instead of home. His real father is now an old man that lives in Thebes. The two meet, neither knowing the identity of the other, and get into a fight over who has the right to go first. He kills his father and continues on. He later ends up marrying his mother, just as fate