Oedipus

Sigmund Freud once stated that Oedipus Rex is a disaster of fate. In Sophocles catastrophe Oedipus the King, Oedipus is a victim due to a horrible vaticination foreseen by the God Apollo. As a child, Oedipus was left for exsanguine with his feet bound to the ground; (his name means swollen foot). As he grew up and found out this prophecy, he move everything in his power to suspend it. Confused about his foster parents, he flees the metropolis of Corinth to vacate his fate and makes way to the city of Thebes to start a new life. Because Oedipus did everything in his power to suspend his fate and prove the prophecy false, he was a tragedy of fate, not of his choices which proves Mr. Freuds statement correct.
To begin, Oedipus parents immediately tried to disengage themselves of their son after news of the prophecy of him killing his perplex and marrying his mother. He was left for dead with his feet bound to the ground when a Shepard decided to save him. It is not even Oedipus fault that he was saved which makes Freuds point that much more acceptable. after(prenominal) being interrogated by Oedipus, the Shepard finally gives up the information that Jocasta was the wholeness who gave him the baby. In pity, master. I thought he would take it away(p) to a foreign country-to the place he came from.



(69) The Shepard reluctantly admits that he saved the baby and that it is his fault that he saved matchless of the most unfortunate of men, Oedipus.
As he grows up Oedipus lives a fulfilled life with his adoptive parents by the names of Merope and Polybus. Oedipus is unsuspecting of his adoption but is n adepttheless raised as one of their own. As Oedipus gains knowledge of his fate, he willingly flees the city of Corinth to avoid the possibility of it coming true. It shows that Oedipus is doing all in his power to avoid his fate; his biggest flaw is that he is unknowledgeable of his existence, not his actions.
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