Part one of term paper
There are those in the world that will have you believe that fate controls the lives of all of us. Still, there are those who insist that each individual has complete control over there own lives; a free will over there own destinies. Oedipus attempts to dodge his fate and change his life for the better, an act that has the reverse effect. ...

Part two of term paper
... shepherd, who then gave the child to his foster parents, King Polybus and Queen Merope. Thus, Oedipus grows up believing the king and queen to be his real parents. But, fate would inevitably catch up with him. At dinner , a drunken man shout out, “Aha! Sham father’s son!” Hurt, he ran to the oracle at Delphi, where upon he learned of fates’ disgusting plans. Plans to kill his father and to marry his mother. “O I fled from there. I measured out the stars to p ...