Oedipus The King Research Paper

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A theme of Oedipus the King is fate. In the end, whatever is supposed to happen will occur. Teiresias assures Oedipus that fate will play itself out. He cannot decide the future. Jocasta is told that her son will be the one who kills her husband and Oedipus is told that he will be the brother and father of his own children. This is all destined to happen. If Oedipus never goes searching for the cause of the towns plague, he would have never learned the truth. Fate had it all planned out for this to happen. Oedipus is meant to kill his father whether or not he knows who he is. Knowing who his father is, would have not changed him killing Lauis. There was a reason for the murder. People cannot change their own fate, Oedipus was trying to go