Themes Of Fate And Destiny

Themes Of Fate And bunchOedipus as a major victim of passel subscribe to time-tested to evade his fate when he realized that he was going to assassinate his father and sleep with his mother. His shocked and dreadful emotions made him run away(p) from his parents to evade this fate, but he was actu altogethery walking right into his fate. It seems that Oedipus overheard this prognostic by accident but we may wonder that in all this was plotted by the gods so that Oedipuss fate provoke carry on as planned. This later became a turning contingent that guide the glorious and sorrowful life that follows Oedipus in his future.Oedipus tried to evade his fate, but for him fate was non easily evaded. In his case fate seemed to be decided from the m resticity of his life, and from birth his leg was scared leaving three marks, which may foreshadow the choice he had to make at the cross road in future. Through this Sophocles is trying to show the idea that our destiny might not be c ontrol take by ourselves and this shows how powerless humans are.The Shepherd who was ordered by the king to kill Oedipus may seem to be an irrelevant person in the lam, but he plays a key role that led to Oedipuss concluding fate. He saves Oedipus and allowed the prophecy to happen. His sympathy caused Oedipus to curse him in the end when the shepherd get arounds the truth about Oedipus, because if Oedipus died as a baby he wouldnt be harm and declare an ending which seemed like a nutrition hell for him. I call up we cant blame the shepherd for redeeming(a) Oedipus. The truth about Oedipus was brought on by himself as he insisted to reveal the truth. This expresses a human behavior of lossing to know the truth that can be related to our daily life. If a friend has some riddle which he/she didnt requisite to share, we would be eager to ask them what it was about since we exigency to know the truth. The more they refuse to reveal the truth the more we ask to know.Oedipu s from nature has an unyielding desire to uncover the truth about everything and in this case, he wanted to find the murder of King Laius and also want to uncover the secret mystery of his own birth. This desire past led him to realize what he has done. Many characters such as Tiresias and Jocasta in the play tried to stop Oedipus from revealing the truth, but Oedipus was driven by his fate to uncover everything. This could be seen when Jocasta urged Oedipus that Stop-in the name of god, if you love your own life, call sullen this oceanrch My suffering is enough.1She begged Oedipus to leave the mystery un turnd, as at that point she might have realized what was authentically happening but she didnt want Oedipus to suffer. But Oedipus reply, Listen to you? No more. I must(prenominal) know it all, must see the truth at last.2This was used by Sophocles to further ornament the characteristics of Oedipus. His curiosity made him unable to stop pursuing the truth, which was the reason for him to solve the sphinx riddle, so even when his wife was pleading from him to stop, he politic insisted on uncovering the mystery that seemed to be a riddle, which ends up to be his final riddle, the riddle of his own life.The quote A stranger you may think, who lives upon you, he soon will be revealed a native of Theban3Foreshadows that the killer who seemed to a Stranger actually have a long bandage with Thebes and at the time Oedipus didnt realize that it was him who had long ties with Thebes. Again this is related with the subject of fate and destiny since this was say by the Tiresias who revealed the prophecy which eventually became true.In the play the Prophet says that, Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich, he will grope his way towards a foreign soil, a dark tapping before his step by step.4This foreshadows what will happen to Oedipus in the future. Oedipus does unfeignedly take notice of what the oracle says because he was angry and believed that ever ything the seer said was a conspiracy. What he doesnt realize is that this is a significant prophecy the prophet made for him. As we see further in the play on how cruel he blinded himself and how he left Thebes. This relates to the theme of fate, since the prophet actually knows what will happen to Oedipus, which makes us wonder whether god really plans our destiny in advance.In the play the quote, He solved the far-famed riddle with his brilliance, he rose to power, a man beyond all power. Who could behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him.5 shows that although Oedipus is a smart and mighty king he could still not reverse his destiny and had to end up living in misery alone. This causes the reader to sympathize with him for why is life so un neat to him, that such a good man ends up with such an ending. whence in the quote Revealed at last, brother and father both to the children he embraces, to his mother son and husband both-he sow ed the loins his father sowed, he spilled his fathers riptide6Sophocles gave the reader a feeling of sorrow for both Oedipus and all the hoi polloi related to him. Since everyone who is blood related to him will live in misery.Oedipus, no matter what he may try to do to avoid his fate. each his actions were pulling him right back to his final destiny, although revealing the truth surround his birth was his wish, but also believed to be the plan of the gods. His curiosity and intelligence service which brought him fame and glory have also brought his downfall. Oedipus was too eager to end the suffering of his people, consequently sending Creon to bring the prophet that led to the tragedy.I think that even when the prophet hinted that the killer was a stranger to the land and all this might be a plan of fate. It just encouraged him to be more eager to find the killer of King Laius instead of chilling himself done to think about it. If he did he might have realized what was happe ning. So it all seemed to happen as the fate direct and the gods were manipulating the minds of the man. And it seemed that the people are just chess pieces and are expendable when needed, thus they dont have control over their fate.This all started with a prophecy and the results of it was bleak. So we ask ourselves are we supposed to know the will of god or should we be ignorant. If the old King of Thebes did not know of the prophecy then he would not have tried to kill Oedipus, then the family would have lived happily together, but due to the prophecy it turned into a disastrous event. This raises the question of whether the prophecies of gods there to help us or to cause problems for us? It is ironic how things could have turned out to be differently. It seems that it is not fair for Oedipus or anyone to have their final destiny decided, without giving them a demote to change it, and for Oedipus his fate was determined to end terribly even at the beginning of his life.