By His Own Hand: Oedipus and His Fate

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English

 

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Winifred C

 

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November 19, 2014

 

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University

 

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In trying to escape from the edict, he only ensures its actualization. On the way out of Corinth, which he believes to be his home where his mother and father live, he fulfils half of his fate by killing his true father, King Laios. Then, after defeating the Sphinx, he takes his mother, Queen Iocaste, as his bride and begets children...
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Yet, dreaded as the fate is, he is beyond content with his new station and family. He is unaware of his relation to the dead old man, and his new wife. Ignorance, in this case, truly is bliss. There is no way Oedipus could have possibly avoided his fate. However, the edict in itself did not specify his rise to fame and glory followed by his fall or that he had to be aware that his fate had already come about...
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