The play, Oedipus by Sophocles is about a man who is destined to kill his father and bed and marry his mother. Now, one would think how exactly does a fate such as this happen to someone or better yet who would even allow this destiny to happen to a person. When one is destined to such a fate as this a person would try to think of all ways possible to escape it as Oedipus tried. However when fate is literally on your back and follows you there pretty is much nothing that you can do to even bother trying to change it. As was the case with Oedipus, and no matter what he did, how far he ran, or how he tried to escape. His destiny always caught up him which leads to why I believe that Oedipus had no free will.
Before Oedipus was even born, still in his mother’s womb, a soothsayer told his parents of the horrid future of their unborn child. They told poor Laius and Jocasta that their future son was going to kill the king and marry his mother. What a travesty his parents thought which was why that as soon as dear little Oedipus was born his parents left him on top of a mountain with his ankles pierced and his feet bound together. All so that the poor little baby wouldn‘t be able to run from the mountain animals that would most surely eat him. The man his parents had paid to take him to the mountain top couldn’t leave the poor and defenseless baby alone to get eaten by mountain lions or other frightening creatures. So what he does is give baby Oedipus to the shepherd of the neighboring city of Thebes. Oedipus is then raised as the bastard child of the king and queen of Corinth. Basically Oedipus cheats death and is to fulfill his destiny. If he knew as a child what was to happen I think that he would’ve have wish that he died up there on that mountain.
This proves that Oedipus has no freewill because no matter what he does he ends up fulfilling his destiny. When he runs away, and has the fight with Laius and ends up killing him, that completes part one his...