Oedipus The King: The Conflict Between Freedom And Slavery

In the story of Oedipus, there are many examples of the conflict between freedom and slavery. Freedom and slavery don't only exist in situations between man and man or even man and society, but rather between man and self. Freedom is a very big word and many think it's true, however, freedom isn't necessarily all there. Slavery is actually more common than most would like to know, it's everywhere. Between man and self, we are all slaves to our flaws. Someone can't escape what they were destined to do. We are all predestined to a life, unique to each individual. There is nothing there that may be able to change that. For example, Oedipus heard the prediction of his fate that he would kill his father. He did try to change it, but his trying only resulted in the deed being done. Oedipus was destined to kill his father and his choice to flee was his predestined self-causing the act to be done. This is in one way how we are slaves to the flaw of the predestined life we live. …show more content…
We all have flaws somewhere, even if they can't be seen. Some of these flaws shapes who we are on the outside without us even knowing it. Oedipus clearly had inner flaws as well. We see him when he is faced with the stranger on the road and he immediately goes straight to being able to make it known that he can hold his own. His flaw is proudness, and he has a desire to retain this, so when he feels challenged, he immediately acts out and doesn't always think it through. This resulted in him killing the stranger on the road who happened to be his father. These inner flaws make us do things we wouldn't necessarily do in the first place making us slaves to the actions we take part in, caused by these