Voltaire and Sophocles were both philosophers of their time. They used their literary works in order to express their notions of the different aspects of the world in which we live. Voltaire’s Candide and Sophocles Oedipus Rex are two works in which the author’s use the protagonist’s to express their notions of fate and how strongly this is conveyed in their image. Pangloss in Candide is the image of Voltaire’s philosophical …showed first 75 words of 721 total…

…showed last 75 words of 721 total…he brings himself down with. By the Oracle telling Oedipus’s parents his fate, did this in anyway have any effect on his fate is possibly one of the deeper, in-depth issues of fate which could have effected the outcome of the story. Therefore the roots of Oedipus Rex are based on fate. Oedipus lived out his fate in the way the Oracle told, therefore by marrying his mother and murdering his father Incomplete words- 723