Predestined Fate Of Oedipus
Beginning of paper
In ancient Greek society they believed that ones life is predestined and
that ones fate is sealed. What is meant to occur will happen no matter what that
person does. In "Oedipus Rex" Oedipus' fate is doomed from his birth because of
the actions of his ancestors. Unlike Oedipus most people today do ....
Middle of paper
.... However they couldn't kill him themselves because murder of
their own son would get the gods angry all over again. So they tried to get some
one to take Oedipus out to the mountains and let him die of natural causes. Some
people might argue that they are still indirectly responsible for the death but
apparently the Greeks only considered it bad if you were directly responsible
for the act of murder. The problem is that this person never left Oedipus on the
mountains as he was instructed to ....
------------------
Word count: 1151
Page count: 5 (approximately 250 words per page)
