Free Will In Sophocles Oedipus The King

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Greek mythology has brought different view in how life is.The story Oedipus Rex by Sophocles is a tragic story about a man who once saved the city of Thebes and become king because of it, but is now facing a fate that he was trying to run away from. This story shows how free will is just an illusion, and in actuality it is already planned from the day your ar born, and that destiny cannot be change as it has been set in stone.As we grow up we are taught through religion, and or by other mean we are told we have free will, and that we control our destiny but it that all make believe? Looking at Oedipus Rex do we see free will? Or controlment? And or really bad luck?

Reading the story first time you would strictly blame Oedipus for what happened throughout the books as he was the one who killed his father and married his mother, but reading another time you come to realize or accept that none of this is Oedipus fault. In the scene where Oedipus is talking to the messenger, he tells him a prophecy and it says, “Apollo said through his prophet that I
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In the last seen with Oedipus he had decided to remove his eye balls from his head for not really any reason, only to show how he was blind. Now recalling in the beginning of the book Oedipus calls the Oracle a fool and that he does not know what he is talking about because he just a blind old man. Now seeing Oedipus now, was Oedipus taking his eyes out free will, or was it destiny as we know Oedipus like to be knowledgeable and from reading other Greek mythology books like The Iliad, and or the The Odyssey, There is always a blind old man for example Homer who is the Oracle in those books. So does this mean Oedipus got what he wanted he know has knowledge but the sacrifice is being blind for the rest of his life? Also karma has played roles in Homer book as well maybe this is the Oracles payback for what Oedipus