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    In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the protagonist Oedipus is a victim of fate. An early prophecy predicts that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, so he is abandoned as an infant. However, fate intervenes and Oedipus is rescued and raised unaware of his true parents. As an adult, Oedipus hears another prophecy and leaves his home in an attempt to escape his fate, but instead unwittingly fulfills the prophecy by killing his biological father in a dispute and marrying his mother, the queen of the land. Throughout the tragedy, Oedipus tries in vain to defy his fate, but ultimately fate proves more powerful than any human

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    In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the protagonist Oedipus is a victim of fate. An early prophecy predicts that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, so he is abandoned as an infant. However, fate intervenes and Oedipus is rescued and raised unaware of his true parents. As an adult, Oedipus hears another prophecy and leaves his home in an attempt to escape his fate, but instead unwittingly fulfills the prophecy by killing his biological father in a dispute and marrying his mother, the queen of the land. Throughout the tragedy, Oedipus tries in vain to defy his fate, but ultimately fate proves more powerful than any human

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    In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the protagonist Oedipus is a victim of fate. An early prophecy predicts that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, so he is abandoned as an infant. However, fate intervenes and Oedipus is rescued and raised unaware of his true parents. As an adult, Oedipus hears another prophecy and leaves his home in an attempt to escape his fate, but instead unwittingly fulfills the prophecy by killing his biological father in a dispute and marrying his mother, the queen of the land. Throughout the tragedy, Oedipus tries in vain to defy his fate, but ultimately fate proves more powerful than any human

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    Discuss About The Role of Fate in King - S

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    In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the protagonist Oedipus is a victim of fate. An early prophecy predicts that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, so he is abandoned as an infant. However, fate intervenes and Oedipus is rescued and raised unaware of his true parents. As an adult, Oedipus hears another prophecy and leaves his home in an attempt to escape his fate, but instead unwittingly fulfills the prophecy by killing his biological father in a dispute and marrying his mother, the queen of the land. Throughout the tragedy, Oedipus tries in vain to defy his fate, but ultimately fate proves more powerful than any human

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    Discuss about The Role of Fate in King Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

    Oedipus Rex is one of the greatest creations of Sophocles where king


    Oedipus is the protagonist who is the victim of his own fate.
    Generally, fate is one of the opposition elements of the play which is
    influenced by one’s own action but ultimately is dictated by events
    beyond anybody’s control.

    Oedipus is the son of king Laius and queen Jocasta. They hear from
    an astrologer that, Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother.
    That’s why they tie his legs with a strong roof and order a shepherd
    to keep him on the pick of the mountain so that the beasts of the
    mountain eat him.

    Shepherd takes pity to him. He does not keep it on the pick of


    mountain. Actually, the destiny of Oedipus saves him from certain
    death. The shepherd gives Oedipus to another shepherd who is the
    member of another kingdom. He takes it and shows him to his king.
    The king has no child so he becomes very happy to get Oedipus. He
    and his wife take great care as their child. Gradually Oedipus
    becomes grower day by day.

    After some years later when Oedipus is young enough, one day he
    hears from another astrologer that he will kill his father and marry
    his mother. At that time he does not know his real identity, he thinks
    that Polybus is his father. So he does not want to kill his father and
    marry his mother. At that time he leaves the country to get rid of the
    worse work. He returns to his own country but he does not know
    that it is his own country. It is the creation of destiny.

    Oedipus walks along the road and goes towards his country.
    Suddenly his father, along with his solders is also coming on the
    road from his opposite site. At that time only for a simple matter a
    major problem has been created. Oedipus has killed his father king
    Laius and his solders only for a simple matter. So, here the first
    predict has become true and the fate has won and defeated the
    trying of a man. The people of that kingdom have heard that the king
    has been killed by some robbers.

    After some moments Oedipus meets with a sphinx which is a


    monster. It asks a question to the people but everybody fails to give
    the correct answer and when they fail to give the correct answer it
    eats him/her. He also asks Oedipus the same question but he gives
    the correct answer and the sphinx jumps from the mountain and
    dies. When the people of that country have learnt about the greatest
    success of Oedipus they become happy to Oedipus and as a gift they
    give their queen to Oedipus as their king was killed. So Oedipus is
    bound to marry the queen who is his own mother. Here we observe
    that destiny has totally won and the fate has proved that no man can
    deny his sorrow and suffering.

    There is a proverb that, “what is bolted cannot be bolted.”

    In this tragedy it becomes true. Oedipus has been trying his best to
    deny his fate and save him from the worse sin but he fails because
    his destiny bounds him to do so. Oedipus has failed and fate has
    won. So the role of fate on Oedipus is almighty.

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