Essay Archive - Oedipus Rex: Fate and Freewill
Oedipus Rex: Fate and Freewill
In the play Oedipus Rex, it shows many different forms of fate and
freewill. Fate is a word that can be defined in many different ways. Fate
can affect a person’s life in many different ways. Oedipus’s fate ruined
his life and lead him to a horrible death. Antigone’s life was also thrown
out to the hand of fate. Neither one of them had any freewill in there
lifetime, all of there lives were based upon the fate that the gods handed
to them. Both of these elements, fate and freewill, play a large role in
the telling of the story of Oedipus Rex. Was his life really left to fate
or was it le....
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