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“In Oedipus the king it is impossible to escape the control of the gods” discuss Fate is an unavoidable part of a person’s life that may control who we are, what
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"In Oedipus the king it is impossible to escape the control of the gods" discuss Fate is an unavoidable part of a person's life that may control who we are, what we do and what will happen to us. So, regardless of human actions and regardless of emotions and wishes, fate upon each humans being will occur. Fate can be undeserving and cruel, awesome and unchangeable, so much so that no one can change its course. Even when others try hard to help, fate will have its way. Certainly, in Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus the king was such an individual for even though exercising free will to determine the course of his destiny, fate ultimately had its way in that he is to kill his father and to marry his mother. An individual life is governed by the forces of fate that takes away autonomy and only leaves destiny as the road an...
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