Theme Of Destiny In Oedipus

A man’s life is a journey that has been pre-destined by the gods. There is always a human will towards a desire, but in the end destiny plays its own course, and makes sure that the will leads the way to the fate. No matter how much the man wants to assert his own will, in the end a man is powerless against his fate. As per the ancient Greek theatre, Sophocles play’s normally have emphasis on individual characters, the role of chorus has always been reduced, there are complex characters who are psychologically well-motivated, many characters are carefully motivated, there are climatic suspense scenes and there are some elaborated visual effects. Destiny are the events that are suppose to take place, in a man’s life in the future. Destiny is …show more content…
Oedipus depicts that the murderer of the former King of Thebes, would be exiled and will be considered as an untouchable, even if it is someone who is close to Oedipus’s heart. The irony in this statement is that, Oedipus himself doesn’t know that the one who will be facing the punishment will be himself, as he was the one who was behind Laius’s murder. The fact that Oedipus conveyed that the “murderer” will be an “untouchable”, made him regret, as he wanted to meet his daughter and hug them, but was unable to do so, as he himself was the cause of Laius’s death. It was predicted that Oedipus is going to kill his father and marry his mother, and have kids with her. To run away from this prediction, Oedipus “literally” runs away from Corinth, so that the prediction does not come true. But the irony is that, all of this led him to marry his “real mother” Jocasta, and have babies with her and led him to murder his father Laius unknowingly. The further he tried to run from the prediction, the closer her got to it. The fact that Oedipus left Corinth, and the fact that he wanted the murderer of Laius to be exiled, led to the irony, for which Oedipus was unknowingly accountable