Part one of term paper
Oedipus was a tragic hero who’s fate was predetermined by the Gods. His unchangeable fate was determined in two stages that took place at different times in his life. The first stage happened when he was first born. The second stage was when he left his home after consulting an oracle. After the first two stages of his fate took place t ...

Part two of term paper
... biological mother and father abandoned him at birth because he was proficied to kill his father “Shepard: it was said that the boy would kill his own father.”(line 62). Left to die he was found by a shepard who gave him away to who Oedipus grew up thinking was his parents. Oedipus’s parents trying to kill him only leads to the death of his father and the downfall of Oedipus: “Shepard: I pitied the baby, my king,/ And I thought that this man would take him far away/...He saved him-but fo ...