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Oedipus: Victim Of Fate

In the play "King Oedipus", by Sophocles, Oedipus is caught in a series of tragic circumstances. When he was only a few days old he was left on a mountainside to die because of an oracle said that he wound grow up to be the murderer of his father, the king. However, the baby was found and taken to the nearby city of Corinth, where Oedipus was adopted as the son of the king and queen there. He was never told about his true past. After growing up, and having returned to Thebes, Oedipus becomes a victim of fate due to his strange circumstances and inability to escape the oracle.

Can't Escape Destiny
The oracle, put upon Oedipus from his birth, condemned him from the start. First, the fear of this prophecy that Laius and Jocasta, his birth parents, were told caused them to have their son‘s feet nailed together and leave him to die on a mountain. The second time the oracle is told, Oedipus is a young man, and hears it for himself. Assuming that it applies to Polybus and Merope,......


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