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The Themes of Oedipus the poove     In the play Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, two subject fields appear one that military man have little train of their lives because destiny always catches up with them and the theme that when someone makes a mistake, they will have to pay for it.   The theme that the lives of humankind be controlled by the gods, in Oedipus, show that everything humans do are futile and result in no gain but hardly loss. This theme is mainly shown by the character Oedipus, king of Thebes. In the commencement ceremony of his life, Laius the king planned to kill his son by leaving him on Mount Cithaeron to die. ...at the moment I was your savior.   From the very beginning, Oedipus was destined to fulfill Apollos presage of killing his father. Even though King Lauis tries to kill Oedipus to collar the fulfilment of this shameful prognostication, fate drives the Corinthian messenger to save Oedipus. What the gods fortell will add up true and no human can stop it from happening, not correct the kings. Oedipus is once again controlled by this power when he leaves the place of his pincer hood after he hears that he is to kill his father and draw his mother. I shall shrink from nothing...to find the the murderer of Laius...You are the murderer... Oedipus tried to stop the prophecy from coming true by leaving Corinth and only fate can make Oedipus turn to the road where he kills his true father. loss Corinth makes Oedipus lose his childhood by making him worry of such issues spring chicken people should not have to worry about and becoming a king of a strange land. Last of all, Oedipus carries the last part of the prophecy out, marrying his mother. I would... never have been known as my mothers husband. Oedipus has no control over the outcome of his life. Fate causes Oedipus to have known the answer to the Sphinxs problem and win his marriage to his mother, Jocasta. Had fate not intervened, the chances of marrying Jocasta would have been small since thither is an enourmous number of people and places to go. Oedipus loses his sense of dignity after he discovers he is not only a murderer, but also that he had pull incest.