Oedipus+Essay

   Oedipus is a man that has fate intertwined with free will. At the beginning of the play it tells how he solved the sphinx’s riddle because he was destined to. This would prove right because he was rightfully heir to the throne. Also his father abandoned him as a baby because he was destined to kill his father which he eventually did. It also shows free will in the way that he chooses to leave the castle and blind himself. He chooses to marry his mother though he did not know she was his mother. He chooses to accept his fate and leave which means he did have free will. The story showed signs of fate and free will. it showed fate more though. I think the story had lots of irony in it that could be used as fate. I think that free will and fate played big roles in the book Oedipus Rex.