According to Dr. Schweingruber’s lecture, “the self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that in itself cause the expected event to occur, thus seeming to confirm the prophecy’s accuracy.” The self-fulfilling prophecy is a funny thing. It is weird to think that if you think that something might happen, it is more likely to happen. The predictions could be both direct or indirect, or even positive or negative. For example, in class we talked about Oedipus, The man who was predicted to kill his dad, got abandoned by said dad, then later came to power and killed his dad without even knowing he was part of a prophecy, a self-fulfilling prophecy that is. Another example, would be any war, Countries are always prepared for war just
