Fate is the development of events beyond a person’s control, it is destined to happen, and free will is the ability to act at one’s own will, you can voluntarily choose what happens in your life. To me, being able to do whatever I want without fate getting in my way is incredible, people seem happier when they can practice their own free will, rather than being told what is going to happen in their lives and being forced to do so. However, the ancient Greeks believed that your free will was based on your personality and that fate was a basic part of life. Every aspect of an ancient Greeks life was dependent on fate. Fate and free will meant so much to the characters in Oedipus The King.
The fate in the play is Oedipus getting saved after being left to die to escape his destiny, Oedipus meeting and killing his father, unknowingly, and him marrying his own mother. “With my father’s blood upon me! Never to have been the man they call his mother’s husband! Oh accurst! Oh child of evil, to have entered that wretched bed. An example of free will in the play is when Oedipus stabs his eyes out with his wife/mother’s jewelry, “for the king ripped from her gown the golden brooches that were her ornament, and raised them, and plunged them down straight into his own eyeballs, crying…” He took his own sight away so he no longer had to see the horrors that have been going …show more content…
He wants to help his people and his city of Thebes. And even though he got a little frustrated during the process, he still did what he said and banished the killer, which was himself, from his own city, and that makes him a hero. His loyalty and faith that he dedicated to Thebes makes him so admirable. He is not just a hero, but a tragic hero, he has tragic flaws as well, which is his pride that got in the way when he was trying to discover the
The fate in the play is Oedipus getting saved after being left to die to escape his destiny, Oedipus meeting and killing his father, unknowingly, and him marrying his own mother. “With my father’s blood upon me! Never to have been the man they call his mother’s husband! Oh accurst! Oh child of evil, to have entered that wretched bed. An example of free will in the play is when Oedipus stabs his eyes out with his wife/mother’s jewelry, “for the king ripped from her gown the golden brooches that were her ornament, and raised them, and plunged them down straight into his own eyeballs, crying…” He took his own sight away so he no longer had to see the horrors that have been going …show more content…
He wants to help his people and his city of Thebes. And even though he got a little frustrated during the process, he still did what he said and banished the killer, which was himself, from his own city, and that makes him a hero. His loyalty and faith that he dedicated to Thebes makes him so admirable. He is not just a hero, but a tragic hero, he has tragic flaws as well, which is his pride that got in the way when he was trying to discover the