Page 970 line 163. Oedipus states," Wealth, power, craft of statesmanship! Kingly position, everywhere admired! What savage envy is stored up against these, If Creon, whom I trusted, Chreon my friend, for this great office which the city once put in my hands-unsought-if for this power Creon desires in secret to destroy me! He has brought this decrepit fortune-teller, this collector of dirty pennies, this prophet fraud- why, he is no more clairvoyant than I am!"
Fate and free will have a great impact on the play, Oedipus Rex. Oedipus has a sense of free will at the beginning of the play. He has chosen to kill the king, not knowing that he was his father. He had a choice to kill him; therefore, he had free wil. However, from this passage, one can tell that Oedipus is heading down fate's path now. Like I stated earlier, he had free will to kill his father, but as a result of the bad decision, fate is taking over his life. Page 981, line 310, Oedipus says, " Indeed, I fear no other hope is left me." This statement proves that even Oedipus knows that he is gradually being overtaken by fate. Page 999, line 287-291. 'Come now, and leave your children." "No! Do not take them from me!" "Think no longer that you are in comand here, but rather think how, when you were, you served your own destruction." These few lines prove the point that fate now has control over Oedipus' life. He is no longer in control of his life or anyone elses.
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