Monday, January 22, 2007
Free Fallin'
The play Oedipus Rex represents freewill as an unequal opponent to fate. In the play no matter what happened to Oedipus or what Oedipus did to avoid his destiny, his fate proved to be inevitable. The characters in the story believe that the gods control everything that happens on earth, and whatecer they have in store for a person is going to happen regardless. In my opinion this is wrong, Laos and Jocaste just had the wrong approach to handling the situation. If Laos and Jocaste had killed Oedipus when he was born, what could fate have done about that? Oedipus would have been dead, Laos wouldn't have been killed by his own son, and Jocaste would never have married her own son.
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I agree on the first points that you made regarding fate with the gods. But the whole point of the story was to prove that fate can't be changed. And you said "if Oedipus would have died", but he would have ever died because his fate had to be completed. Great Grammer!!!
I agree on the first points that you made regarding fate with the gods. But the whole point of the story was to prove that fate can't be changed. And you said "if Oedipus would have died", but he would have ever died because his fate had to be completed. Great Grammer!!!
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