Part 1 of Essay
Fate is an issue that is mentioned in almost every religion. The majority of people living since the beginning of time up until the present have had a some sort of opinion on the subject. Oedipus Rex is a story that is held together by the fact that fate is more powerful than anyone's free will. On this strong basis of ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... future; it is the plague of the country. The same basic prophecy of Oedipus is proven in many characters. No matter how many times a specific character tried to play off fate and try to get rid of the situation it stayed exactly the same. Teiresias, the oracle, knows the end of all fates. He knows that fate control every minute of an individual's life, "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be/When there's not help in truth!" (Sophocles 16) Oedipus was told by Teiresias that in his later years he would be t ....