Prophecy and Suicide in Oedipus Rex

In the story of Oedipus the king at the beginning Jocasta does not have any idea of what her husband it is to her. Later on she finds out that her husband it is her own son whom she throw away because when he is born a bad prophecy is giving to him. She tries to stop him when she realize it and she starts begging him, she tries to stop him. As an example, she says to him, “listen to me, I beg you: do not do this thing!”(Sophocles 1088) Also she says “you are fatally wrong! May you never learn who you are!” (Sophocles 1088), that gives us a clue, at that point she knows Oedipus is her own son and that the prophecy has already begin to happen in his life. The journalist Anders

In the tragedy, Oedipus the King, fate is a predetermined course of events and is also an important factor that caused Oedipus’s downfall. Oedipus is ultimately a victim of his own fate because, despite his and Jocasta’s efforts, he could not escape the prophecies. Though others say that Oedipus created his own fate because he had the free will to handle the prophecies in becoming his own outcome, in the end, there was no chance that Oedipus could escape the prophecies. It was the fate for Oedipus getting saved after being left to die by his parents. Also, the gods brought the plague into Oedipus’s city, which caused him to search for the murderer of Laius. The truth behind the prophecy was also planned for Oedipus before he even knows it.

Therefore, he sets himself once again responsible for uncovering the truth about his past. Now Oedipus was seeking justice for himself and for the citizens of Thebes. Oedipus wanted to know who were his biological parents and obtain knowledge about his past and his connection to the murder of King Lauis. After he obtains the identity of his true parents, he realizes that the prophecy the old man told him, “you should kill your father and marry your mother,” had come true. The news of what Oedipus had unconsciously done, impacted those that surrounded him greatly. As a result, Jocasta committed suicide as she realized that she had married her son, and Oedipus chooses to live his life blind as he is exiled from

All in all, Jocasta is the one to blame for the tragedy that occurs in Oedipus Rex, as she had more than enough evidence available to have avoided marrying her son, such as his limp, appearance, and similar prophecy, and with that evidence available there is no excuse for Jocasta to not have figured out the truth, and whether she was ignorant or denied the truth to herself, she remains at fault for having married her son.

Fate is defined as the development of events beyond a person’s control. In “Oedipus the King,” Sophocles, tells us about a tragic hero (Oedipus) in which his life is predetermined by fate, because he is deprived of free will. The first act of fate on Oedipus was him being saved by a shepherd when his parents (Queen Jocasta and King Laius) left him in the mountains to die, he then met and killed his father without knowing who he was, and last, he married Queen Jocasta, later realizing that she was his mother. Every action that Oedipus took to prevent his fate, would soon be the ultimate downfall, not only for himself, but for his family and the people of Thebes.

In Oedipus the king the Prophets tells Oedipus how his life will pan out and that there is nothing that he can do about it. Oedipus, however thinks he can prove them wrong being the self righteous person that he is. He believes that fate is not real and that its all about free will and individual decisions that lead to and determine the future. Oedipus is wrong for thinking that he can change his fate because the world is controlled by fate not free will.

In Oedipus the King by Sophocles the mother Jocasta spent years married to her biological son, and bore his children. The play was written as a Greek tragedy in which the characters have a fatal flaw, and this applies to Jocasta. Right after King Laius and Queen Jocasta have their son Oedipus they receive startling news from the Oracle in which it is predicted that one day their son will rise up to kill his father, then marry and sleep with his mother. In order to avoid this King Laius decided to kill their son, and Jocasta willingly agrees. After years pass by, King Laius gets killed by a passerby, Jocasta is to marry the riddle solver, and life continues as normal. Almost all at once Jocasta’s life shatters, she finds out that her husband was killed by her son, she married her

At first glance, it was exciting to see a woman dominate that severely in a man's world; but much like Lady Macbeth, all Jocasta had were her tough edges and a hunger for whatever power her family could get. When Oedipus presented her with the soothsayer's report about how he killed his father and will inevitably bed his mother- keep in mind, Jocasta knew this was all true- she put so much effort into making Oedipus believe that this wasn't true and that it was impossible (Sophocles 38). Later on when Oedipus found out Jocasta was his own mother, Jocasta later killed herself before she had to face responsibility for her actions to more than just Oedipus and his men. (Sophocles

In Oedipus the King, hubris causes the deaths of Jocasta and Laius and Oedipus’ ruination and blinding. At the beginning, Laius and Jocasta show hubris by trying to fight their curse and fate. They send their son Oedipus to be killed on Mount Cithaeron to prevent the death of Laius and the incestuous relationship between Oedipus and Jocasta. By doing so, not only do they

In the establishment of the play, Jocasta and Oedipus seem as though they are a traditional royal husband and wife, with ordinary children. They love each other, unaware of the truth. Jocasta illustrates what she did to her son as a consequence of an incestual and sinful prophecy that her son would someday kill Laius and marry her, as told by an oracle. She reveals that she and Laius fastened their son’s ankles and left him on a mountain to die. She declares, “[...] My baby / no more murdered his father than Laius suffered -- / his wildest fear -- death at his own son’s hands” (794-796). While both

Finding out who his true father is seems important for someone who has just been told he will kill his father. Nor is Oedipus particularly intelligent about the way he conducts himself. Even though he did not know that Laius and Jocasta were his parents, he still does kill a man old enough to be his father and marry a woman old enough to be his mother. One would think that a man with as disturbing a prophesy over his head as Oedipus would be very careful about who he married or killed. Blindly he pursues the truth when others warn him not to; although he has already fulfilled the prophesy, he does not know it, and if he left well enough alone, he could continue to live in blissful ignorance. But instead he stubbornly and foolishly rummages through his past until he discovers the awful truth. In this way, Jocasta 's death and his blindness are his own fault.

Jocasta, Oedipus’ mother and wife, met her demise when she learned that the man she wedded was the child she gave birth to and left to die. After learning that the messenger was given a child by the servant of Laius, Jocasta tries to deny everything and advises Oedipus not to investigate the mysteries surrounding his birth any longer. “My suffering is enough” (Sophocles, ln 1165), Jocasta realizes that she bore Oedipus and urges Oedipus to end the search for she knows he will not be able to bear the truth, but he ignores her and out of anger the queen storms through the palace doors (Sophocles, ln 1155-1179). Only when a messenger announces the death of Jocasta does the audience know that when the horrible truth was revealed, Jocasta was unable to bear it and killed herself (Sophocles, ln 1365-1400). Jocasta was dragged out of the cave so quickly that she was unable to bear the light of the truth and killed herself as a

Sophocles is the author of the famous play, “Oedipus the King”. In case you did not know, Sophocles is from Greece. In Greek mythology there are three goddesses who preside over the birth and life of humans. Each person 's destiny was thought of as a thread spun, measured, and cut by the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. In the story “Oedipus the King” fate and destiny was the main theme. On Google the definition of destiny is the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. Fate is defined as, the development of events beyond a person 's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. In this paper I will be analyzing the story to help you understand the significance of destiny and fate to the story.

Fate played an important part in the plays and literature of the Greeks as is shown in Sophocles' play

Oedipus the King would not have been successful throughout centuries as a tragic play, if Oedipus were clearly responsible for his own tragedy. The play's ongoing success was do to Oedipus' innocence which immediately makes one think he can not be fully responsible and to blame. I do not believe Sophocles would have wrote the story, or I do not think people would have ever read it or studied it had it simply been a story of a criminal's retribution. Sophocles himself believed Oedipus to be the innocent victim of an ironic tragedy, and built the play around this belief. This story was destined to happen and I believe the author would agree. The story revolves around destiny, the resistance of people to it and the ultimate ending of destiny