IN the above quote from “Of Human Bondage”, it is implied that fate is inevitable, that is also implied in Oedipus Rex. The idea is that people are responsible for their actions, but cannot be held a countable for them because all of their actions were Preordained. TO all in this book, Fate has determined thier lives before they were born. The idea that fate is inevitable is clearly the overriding theme of this book is clearly portrayed when Oedipus states, “Woe! Woe! It is all plain indeed! O light, this be the last time I shall gaze on the, whom am revealed to have been born of whom I ought not- to have wedded, Whom I ought not- and slain whom I might not slay” (42) Oedipus gets sent away and banished from his first parents because an oracle predicts that he will kill his father and marry his mother. They put a stake through his ankles and sent him away to die. However the person that they told to carry him away, did not and he was adopted by another King in another country.
One day he was also told the story that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Fearing fo his parents lives he ran, inevitably sealing his fate, runs to Thebes and marries a woman there (his mother).
Oedipus did not want to fulfill fate but by trying to run and is freewill fulfills the preordained prophesy. Oedipus is responsible for his actions, but since he did not know that he was simply fulfilling fate, he felt that he was accountable for it, when he truly was not.
The Essay on Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. Is this due to fate or freewill?
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For Oedipus was simply a baby when this prediction was made and the choice to kill his mother and marry his father was not truly a conscious choice since he did not know what was truly happening. Sophocles feels that fate will follow us until death and then that is when the true living begins. “And of no mortal say.” ‘That is a happy man'”, til vexed by no grieves ill, he pass lifes goal.” I believe that he is trying to tells us that fate will never truly leave us until we are dead so we cannot truly be happy and free with a preordained future.
