ESSAY RESPONSE: ‘Oedipus Rex suggests that people ultimately have little control over their own lives’ Do you agree? The great philosopher Socrates believed that humans rule themselves with a combination of fate and free will. In Oedipus Rex this belief becomes a realisation, with a vicious combination of fate and free will contributing to the destruction of Oedipus. Oedipus’ prophecy about killing his father and sleeping with his mother, his insatiable quest for the truth, …showed first 75 words of 786 total…

…showed last 75 words of 786 total…belief that he is almost untouchable cause him to continue to he destruction. The events of the play Oedipus Rex suggest that fate controls our lives, but it cannot fully fulfil itself without help from human nature and actions. It is arguable that Oedipus’ downfall was totally his own fault or that there was nothing he could do. But the evidence noted clearly shows that a combination of the two are necessary in human life.