Oedipus The King: Fate Vs. Free Will

Why would our life chooses be determined by someone else? Living a life with a pre determined faith would be a life of boredom due to the fact that it does not matter how many goals or choices someone makes there is an inevitable fate waiting for you in the end. In the play of Oedipus that was his inevitable fate and if he chooses that fate or not could be interpreted in many different ways, some say that he secretly wanted to see his fate to come true because of all his choses that lead up to him making his fate come true. Oedipus was unfortunately pre determined by his fate but he did have the free-will in changing his destiny. There are many ways that this play could token a different turn of events if he had a different mind set. From the the day Oedipus was born he was a victim to other people’s decision when his own father Laius and his mother Jocasta sent him to get killed so the prophecy that the oracle had told them. There is a dark concept to this but if their parents did not put their son’s destiny on a shepherded to kill but as the play showed that is not the case and was just given to another family. Laius and Jocasta knew that the prophecy could come true but if they had the free will to sadly end their own child then it could have been avoided. Free will is best known as having the power to make choses with nothing holding you …show more content…
If Oedipus had a different mind set, then he would not have been so closed minded and being able to analyze the situation he was in at the time and think about ways to avoid his own “fate”. “Oedipus: I count myself the son of Chance, the great goddess, giver of all good things—I'll never see myself disgraced” (Sophocles 1536, line 1188-1190). In this quote it is showed how he tried to avoid the truth but by then it was to late to change what he has done. Having a better mind-set