Oedipus the King suggests that people ultimately have little control over their own lives.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:05:14
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 3 pages (818 words)
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 3 pages (818 words)
The free will versus fate debate dates back to before 500BC. Some people believe that fate dominates a person's entire life, that all events are inevitable. Others feel that we are free to make choices in life and that nothing is certain. In the play Oedipus the King, the writer Sophecles demonstrates through the Gods and the oracles what little influence the characters in the play such as Oedipus, Creon and Jocasta have over their …
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…Oedipus, Jocasta, Laius and the townspeople show, ultimately they have little control over what happens to them during their lives, as they will eventually fulfill what fate they have been dealt, no matter how hard they try to avoid it. It is these characters, especially Oedipus that Sophecles uses to suggest that perhaps people ultimately have little or no control over their lives and that just maybe we all have a pre-determined fate awaiting us.
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