Destiny, Fate, Free Will and Free Choice in Oedipus the King - Oracles and Prophecy :: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Oracles and Uncontrollable Fate King Laios the ruler of Thebes, has a son with his wife queer Iocoste. His name is Oedipus. The soothsayer Teiresias, a hardcore retainer to the King and Queen tells them some disturbing news. Teiresias tells King Laios and Queen Iocoste that their son, Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother. The king and queen take out a decision to take the cocker boy up to a mountain far away from the t induce. King Laios gives the baby to a servant and instructs him to bind the babies ankles and leave him on the mountain expression to perish. The servant follows his book of instructions only when instead of leaving the boy on the mountain side he gives him to a shepherd and makes him promise to take the boy to a far away place. This is how King Laios and Queen Iocaste try to avoid their fate. They ar threatened by the existence of their son so they try to commence him killed, to end their problem. However this plan, almost foolproof do es non work. The shepherd brings the baby boy back to his metropolis and gives him to King Polybus because the King and Queen could not have a child. Oedipus grows up as the son of Polybus and Merope. When Oedipus was a materialisation man he was told that he was not his fathers son. He tires to dismiss this horrible accusation as that of a drunken man, but it always bothered him. One day Oedipus decides to go to the Oracle to send off his knowledge of Oedipus birth. The oracle tells Oedipus his fate is the death of his father by his own hands and that he will marry his mother. He does not resolvent the original question Oedipus asked as to who his true parents are. Upon hearing this Oedipus decides to leave the city and never return as long as his parents (Polybus, Merope) are pacify alive. Oedipus is running from his fate as he leaves the city and heads far from there. On his travel down the road he encounters a chariot wasted by horses and they force him off the road, and as the charioteer went by Oedipus hits him, the man swings back. Oedipus hits him with a blow that knocks him out of the chariot, and the man falls dead to the ground.