In the play “Oedipus Rex” the main character, Oedipus, has to deal with his predetermined fate and his own nature. He is cursed from the beginning of his life when a soothsayer tells of his fate upon his birth. It is predicted that he will kill his father, and marry his mother, and raise a family.
Oedipus was born to Laios and Iocaste who were the king and queen of Thebes. Upon his birth, his parents were shocked at a soothsayer’s prediction of Oedipus’s fate. It was originally said that he would kill his father, marry his mother, and raise a family. Naturally his parents couldn’t have this, so they rid themselves of Oedipus by apparently killing him. They gave him to a shepard and told him to take him away, and kill him. The shepard couldn’t go through with killing his, so instead he gave him to another shepard and told him to get rid of Oedipus. This shepard couldn’t kill the baby either so he heard of a king and queen in Corinth Polybos and Merope who were trying to have......
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