Hickey Fate Versus Free Will Oedipus Rex

The downfall of Oedipus was due to free will rather than fate shown in his De minding of information and his immediate, wild actions. Oedipus being the arrogant king he is, was constantly looking for information when others had informed him that it would not be useful, even damaging to Oedipal uses current life and considerably being. In an exchange between Oedipus and Tires, Oedipus had deem need Tires to him palace to tell him his prophecy and who was the one who had killed Alias and plagued the and.Tires responded to these demands with l will cause neither me nor y o distress. Why do you vainly question me like this? You will not learn a thing from me,. Tires clearly tells Oedipus there is no derive to this knowledge giving Oedipus the opportunity to stop questioning the blind prophet but it was Oedipus filling to continue to pester the old ma n until the annihilative truth was revealed to him and in his ignorance questioned Who t old you to say this? Rather than face the tru th he had demanded.Oedipus later seeded inform nation to whether e killed his fetch and who his birth father truly was. His wife, and later to be discovered mother, stated In the name of the gods, no If you have some concern for you our own life, accordingly stop Do not keep investigating this. I will suffer that will be enough. Though J coasts begs him, he continues to freely search for information that would bring him no be unfit when he could have ended his search right then. Due to his choosing, Oedipus looked for info urination when he could have listened to those around him and lived out a nice, yet ignorant life to the truth.Though Oedipus could defeat the sphinx with his intelligence, intelligence coo old not stop him from the irrational actions he chose. Once the pieces of information had finally matched up and he revealed the truth he had searched for, Oedipus and his mother took t heir fates into their own hands. Oedipus found his mother hung in their bedroom, utterly and then decided to take her jewelry and stabbed his own eyes out. Though the news was devastating, these e actions were overly dramatic, considering both beings had known their prophecy but it was their choice to sake such harsh actions.Though it was fate who had propelled Oedipus to sat b his eyes out, it was Oedipus choice to do so rather than think rationally about how to go ABA out such a horrid situation. Oedipus had known his fate from the beginning but it was his choice to contain u to look for the information he had been warned not to find and stab out the eyes that t had blinded him from the truth all along. Fate is something that is inevitable but it is the choice of the one whose fate is mulish to how they go about the destined events that will occur.