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Oedipus Rex
If fate is predetermined then what good can come out of seeing one's future? Perhaps Sohpocles had this question in mind when he wrote Oedipus Rex. In this story, Oedipus, king of Thebes, must find the murderers who killed his wives first husband, king Laios, so that the great plague will be lifted from his city. He stops at nothing to find out the truth. Oedipus sends a messenger to bring him Teiresias, a blind prophet, in hopes that he may have some insight to who killed the king. He tells him that he is the murderer and that king Laios is his father but Oedipus refuses this information saying that Kreon, his wives brother, has put him up to this in hopes to gain the throne.
He then hears of a slave who was with king Laios the day he was murdered and sends for him hoping he may have seen the ones who killed him. Before the slave arrives a messenger from Corinth comes to tell Oedipus that his father, king Polybos of Corinth had died and now they needed him to......

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