Destiny, Fate, Free Will and Free Choice in Oedipus the King - Oracles and Prophecy :: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Oracles and Uncontrollable want world power Laios the ruler of Thebes, has a boy with his wife tabby cat Iocoste. His summon is Oedipus. The soothsayer Teiresias, a loyal servant to the fagot and Queen tells them or so disturbing news. Teiresias tells King Laios and Queen Iocoste that their son, Oedipus will kill his father and connect his mother. The king and queen make a decision to take the foil boy up to a portion far away from the town. King Laios gives the baby to a servant and instructs him to bind the babies ankles and leave him on the mountain side to perish. The servant follows his instructions but instead of leaving the boy on the mountain side he gives him to a shepherd and makes him agreement to take the boy to a far away place. This is how King Laios and Queen Iocaste try to avoid their fate. They are threatened by the existence of their son so they try to have him killed, to end their problem. However this plan, almost proof does not work. The sh epherd brings the baby boy back to his city and gives him to King Polybus because the King and Queen could not have a child. Oedipus grows up as the son of Polybus and Merope. When Oedipus was a young man he was told that he was not his fathers son. He tires to dismiss this horrible accusation as that of a drunken man, but it always bothered him. One twenty-four hour period Oedipus decides to go to the Oracle to see his knowledge of Oedipus birth. The oracle tells Oedipus his fate is the finish of his father by his own hands and that he will attach his mother. He does not answer the original question Oedipus asked as to who his dependable parents are. Upon hearing this Oedipus decides to leave the city and never return as wide as his parents (Polybus, Merope) are still alive. Oedipus is running from his fate as he leaves the city and heads far from there. On his travel down the road he encounters a chariot drawn by horses and they force him off the road, and as the charioteer went by Oedipus hits him, the man swings back. Oedipus hits him with a blow that knocks him out of the chariot, and the man move dead to the ground.