Can destiny be avoided
Many conflicts occur in daily society: between two people, among groups of people, and sometimes between people and their destiny. The most interesting aspect of Oedipus Rex is the conflicts it contains throughout the play: "Oedipus Rex is a tragedy of destiny" (Dodds 17). There are many conflicts that occur in the play Oedipus Rex; the three most crucial occur between Laius and Jocaste and the gods, between Oedipus and his destiny, and finally between good and evil. Oedipus Rex presents many conflicts, but the first occurs between Laius and Jocaste and the gods. Laius and Jocaste disobey the gods by marrying one another. The result of the disobedience leads to a child who later kills his father and marries his mother. After the child is born, Laius and Jocaste, King and Queen of Thebes, give the three-day-old infant to a shepherd and instructs the shepherd to kill the child. This is an attempt to avoid the curse that is pronounced on them by the gods. Sigmund Freud states that the tragedy "lies in the contrast between the su
conflict between them and the gods will disappear. The shepherd feels pity for the baby and gives it to another preme will of the gods and the vain attempts of mankind to escape the evil that threatens them" (102). By arranging for the child's death, Laius and Jocaste hope that the shepherd in hopes that he will take the child to a distant land. The child is given to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth, and they name him Oedipus. The third conflict is between good and evil. A plague breaks out within the city of Thebes and will not cease until the murderer of King Laius is found. Oedipus thinks that he is doing well by trying to find the murderer, but little does he know that evil lies within him and that he is the murderer. Oedipus does not know that the man he killed on the road was King Laius. In Classical Drama, Hathorn states "The king is shown that he himself is both the problem and the answer" (238). Oedipus is the problem because he caused plague by murdering King Laius. He is also the solution; because in his search for the killer, h
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