In Oedipus the King the masterpiece of Sophocles according to many critics something unpleasent is predicted and personal concerned try to avert and think themselves safer but thogh surprising moral way the prediction is fulfilled the oracle of Apollo said that Oedipus should kill his father and marry his mother someday king and queen of Thebes respectively. The parents tried to avoid the divine pronouncement leaving the infant up in the mountain to let him …showed first 75 words of 262 total…

…showed last 75 words of 262 total…his way from Thebes to Delphi. They met at cross road and as father and son possessed similar temper, the disaster occurs.Again it was he who provoked Teiresias by his uncontrollable temper unfounded accusations which forced him revealwhat otherwise would have remained secret which in term drove him on to accuse Creon, which provoked in its turn J ocasta revealation. So, we can say that Oedipus positively did contribute to actualizing his tragic end.