Part one of term paper
is a play about the tragedy that follows after an oracle comes to King Laius of Thebes and tells him that the son he has by Jocasta will kill his father and marry his mother. Everything that happens from then on is about a variety of characters trying to overcome fate with their own Free Will. Needless to say, it doesn’t work; and by the e ...

Part two of term paper
... days went by Before, with ankles pinned, he cast him out, By the hands of others, on a pathless moor.” He gives the young child to his head shepherd to cast out into the wild, where he will surely die. But the shepherd can not bring himself to do this and so he gives the child with ankles pinned to a fellow shepherd from a distant land called Corinth. When he receives the child, he unpins the baby’s ankles and gives him the name Oedipus, which means “swollen feet”. He cares for the baby ...