Sophocles' play Oedipus the King gives us an example of how our destiny is set when we are born. It was prophesied when Oedipus was born that he was destined to one-day kill his father, marry his mother and have children, and then she would die at his hand. Grief stricken, Oedipus left his hometown to prevent this from happening. Oedipus did not know that the king and queen who raised him were not his birth parents, and eventually he ended up fulfilling his destiny by killing his real father, marrying his real mother and having children,and when she found out that Oedipus was in fact her very own flesh and blood, she took her life. Oedipus had nothing to do with the circumstances that unfolded in his life and could not be blamed for what happened, but the choices he made, by searching for the cause of the plague and then for the one responsible for the murder of King Laios led to his downfall. …
