He now knows he can not defy the gods’ will and no longer fights it, and claims that he had no control over the events that occurred because the gods ordered them to happen. “By fate, against my will! It was God’s pleasure… And tell me this: if there were prophecies / Repeated by the oracles of the gods… How could you justly blame it on me?” (OaC 133-134). His time as a beggar diluted his pride enough to where he acknowledges that Teiresias was correct in this prophecy and that the gods were right. He knows that in his youth his anger controlled him and he cursed the seer for the events that transpired. During his time as a beggar, living off nothing but what generous people gift him, and being blind, he came to the realization that he can not blame anyone on earth for what happened to him. He believes that the gods were to blame and that he knows that because they had their will set upon the prophesied events, they would come true no matter what he attempted to thwart them. Oedipus examples an attempt to change fate. No man can change the gods will. The tragic hero Oedipus was man who fell victim to an inevitable fate. The seers in the plays portray the will of the gods to the human realm. Twice man tried to change the the initial prophecy of man killing his father and marrying his mother, and twice they failed in stopping it from coming true. Sophocles created his play as representation of
He now knows he can not defy the gods’ will and no longer fights it, and claims that he had no control over the events that occurred because the gods ordered them to happen. “By fate, against my will! It was God’s pleasure… And tell me this: if there were prophecies / Repeated by the oracles of the gods… How could you justly blame it on me?” (OaC 133-134). His time as a beggar diluted his pride enough to where he acknowledges that Teiresias was correct in this prophecy and that the gods were right. He knows that in his youth his anger controlled him and he cursed the seer for the events that transpired. During his time as a beggar, living off nothing but what generous people gift him, and being blind, he came to the realization that he can not blame anyone on earth for what happened to him. He believes that the gods were to blame and that he knows that because they had their will set upon the prophesied events, they would come true no matter what he attempted to thwart them. Oedipus examples an attempt to change fate. No man can change the gods will. The tragic hero Oedipus was man who fell victim to an inevitable fate. The seers in the plays portray the will of the gods to the human realm. Twice man tried to change the the initial prophecy of man killing his father and marrying his mother, and twice they failed in stopping it from coming true. Sophocles created his play as representation of