Free will or Destiny ?
Some people do not believe that the Gods have the power to choose your destiny. That each decision you make today shape your tomorrow. Yet i do believe there are somethings we do not have control over death for example no matter how much we try to avoid and run from it we are still going to die. Just like death their are others things in life that are just destine to happen to us. I believe certain events that happened in Oedipus life were destine to happen, one event was even prophesied before he was even born.
King Laius fancied and sexually took advantage of Pelops young son which caused a Pelops to place a curse upon King Laius and Queen Jocasta. One of the Gods of ancient Greece named Oracle tells King Laius and Queen Jocasta the prophecy that the child the him and Jocasta will have will murder him and marry Jocasta. Not only the child marry his mother he will also have children with her.
Knowing the prophecy when Oedipus was born he was giving to the shepherd to be killed. The shepherd couldn't do this to an innocent baby so he gave him to another shepherd. That shepherd would then give Oedipus to the King and Queen of Corinth because they could not have children of their own. Oedipus grew up believe that the King and Queen of Corinth were his real parents so when he heard the prophecy himself he ran away from home. Oedipus like many people thought he could have ran away from his destiny.
When Oedipus was on the road on his way to the Gods he had bumped into this old man who always ran him over. Oedipus and the man got into an altercation that had ended in the death of the old guy. The old guy turned out to be Oedipus. While Oedipus was "running" away from his destiny had actually made the first part of the prophecy true. Then Oedipus had solved the Spinx riddle and lifted the curse off thebes and its civilians. The people of thebes were so over-joyed they made him King and awarded him with a wife Jocasta. Second part of the prophecy came true still while Oedipus was "running" away from his destiny.
The people of thebes were so over-joyed they had not investigated King Laius death which upset the Gods. Oedipus in order to please the Gods started an investigation not knowing the murderer was him. He calls for Teirsias but gets angry at Teirsias because he thinks Teirsias is blaming him for the death of King Laius(which he is because Oedipus is the killer). Starting at line 550 Teirsias is telling Oedipus how the murderer of Laius will be another part of Oedipus life he had no control over .....
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