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The Fate of King Oedipus
In "King Oedipus" there comes a point in the play where Oedipus
learns something that plays an important role throughout the play. He
learns from a oracle that he will eventually kill his own Father and sleep
with his own mother. As one could imagine this is a shock to Oedipus, an ....
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.... who is Polybus, and he brings him up as his own.
He gives him the name Oedipus, which means swollen foot, because of his
deformity.
This shows how the god's had already intended for his life to be.
He had no way to control what his parents did to him after he was born.
Then, eighteen years later, he leaves Corinth for Delphi, to check on his
parentage at the oracle of Apollo. The oracle, though, gives him a
horrific prediction. Which is that he will kill his father and sleep with
his mother, which are the two most inconceivable crime in a Greek family. ....
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