In Oedipus the King, who gets to make the rules? From the beginning, it feels as if the people of Thebes are making the calls. Oedipus sends someone to an oracle in order to figure out how to get the city out of the curse it is under. He then decrees to find whomever killed king Laius. He thinks he is in charge of his life, but from his time of birth, the Gods were playing with him. How could he have ever out run what the Gods had already decreed for his life? Even though his parents tried to stifle it, the Gods were calling the shots as always.
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That is a fair point - was Oedipus ever actually able to outrun this prophecy? Was that ever a real possibility, or was he bound by the oracle?
ReplyDeleteI don't think Oedipus had any chance at outrunning the prophecy. It seems that from the beginning, although things may seem simply coincidental, the gods had it all planned out from the beginning and he never had any real control over his life.
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