Oedipus the King

I must say that Oedipus is officially one of my favorite readings we have had this far ( even though I already read it in high school), not only because it wasn’t hard to read and understand, but also because it is nothing like we have read in this class.

The first part of Oedipus went by extremely fast and jumped straight to the point which I liked because too much detailing in our other readings bored me to death.  One thing we were told to pay attention to in this story is fate and how it plays out throughout the text. We were told to pay attention to fate and how it plays out in this story.  The question we all want to know the answer to is can you change your fate or destiny? First of all I do not understand the difference between the two and I always used the two interchangeably. As far as the question about destiny goes, I am not sure if you can change your fate. I love people who say “ only you can control your life and only you choose the path you want to take, “ but what if the path you choose is the one that was already chosen for you anyways? I guess the question is, is there a path already chosen for you before you were born and no matter what you try to do or what path you would like to, you will still somehow end up going down the path.

 I always wanted to go to a physic before because I always wondered about my future. However, the thing that freaks me out is what if I am told what my future will be and I try to change is and just because I tried to change it I will end up with the future the physic told me I will have. I guess this proves that I am not too sure if you can change fate. I believe that our path is already chosen for us and we can write out our own life and choose our own path, but I think that our decisions are guided by the way our original fate was written and that at the end of the day we will still end up at the place we were meant to be from the beginning.

Since I already read this play in high school, I know what will happen and that’s why I am ALMOST convinced that we cannot change our fate and that what was meant to be will happen one way or another, no matter how hard we try to stop it.