Fate Oedipus Rex is a play that deals with many themes, but the main theme that comes to mind when reading Oedipus Rex is fate. The Oxford dictionary defines fate as “The development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.” This is portrayed in the play Oedipus Rex in many ways. Fate is also crucial to the overall theme and basis of the play itself. Fate is portrayed in numerous ways throughout the play. One example of this is when Queen Jocasta and King Laios receive the news from prophets that their son would grow up to murder Laios and sleep with Jocasta. In the prophets telling them this they also said that this was their fate, this was going to happen. You see in ancient greece they
