"The Fate Of Oedipus"

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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 the killer of his own father, and would marry his own mother. In his attempt to avoid the situation, he left both of his parents and traveled to a far away city called Thebes. Once there he was married to a woman, that he himself was positive was not his mother, for his mother was the woman that he left back in Corinth. Also, being so far from his known home, there was no chance that he could kill his father whom he had also left behind. Oedipus thought he was safe, but he was not.
Oedipus is not the only one that tries to escape the curse. Jocasta also tried to escape the curse. She knows about it before Oedipus is born and can not stand to live with him any more. ...

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