Throughout Sophocles' play, Oedipus Rex, destruction, gloom, and devastation transpire. Fate and Oedipus are intertwined. The fate in which Oedipus was born, is now his greatest enemy. Throughout all his pain and suffering, Oedipus acquires temperateness. Because of Oedipus' inquiry into his heritage, Oedipus now knows the agonizing truth of who he is and where he was from. Unfortunately, Oedipus is born with an atrocious malediction which is to parricidally kill his father and to …showed first 75 words of 415 total…

…showed last 75 words of 415 total…into himself. Nature will always take its course. Life is already planned for you. Your fate and destiny are already known. Unlike Oedipus, you will not know your destiny in life because you will live it as it comes along. Oedipus already knew his fate and he tried to fight it, tried to live his life good and he tried to avert his fate. But fate as we all know it won in the end.