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"In the play, 'Oedipus the King' Sophocles argues that it is fate not the individual which controls human destiny."
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"In the play, 'Oedipus the King' Sophocles argues that it is fate not the individual which controls human destiny." The Ancient Greeks believed that the gods predetermined one's fate before their birth and that it was something could not be avoided or controlled by the individual. "Oedipus the King," written by the Greek playwright Sophocles supports these beliefs. The story of Oedipus was a well-known myth to the Greeks, he was fated to kill his father and share his mother's bed. The Ancient Greeks did not question this myth, they believed firmly in it as they did with all myths, and believed that Oedipus could not escape his fate. The fate of Oedipus begins prior to the play, when his father Laius received a prophecy about his newborn child, whom his wife Jocasta had just given birth to. Apollo's oracle foretells that the infant is destined to kill his father,...
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