Oedipus The King: Oedipus' Downfall Is Because Of King Laius
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Oedipus The King, by Sophocles, is a play about how Oedipus lives
up his fate that he will kill his father and marry his mother, both of
which are extremely bad in the Greek society, even though he thinks he is
getting away from it. Despite the Greek notions of supreme power of the
gods and fate, ....
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.... one to tell you.
Oedipus - Did she give it to you?
Shepherd - Yes, my lord, she did...To destroy it...She was afraid
of dreadful prophecies...The child would kill its parents, that was the
story.
Oedipus - Then why did you give it to this old man here?
Shepherd - In pity master. I thought he would take it away to a
foreign country--to the place he came from. If you are the man he says you
are, you were born the most unfortunate of men.” (86-89)
When King Laius heard ....
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