And so, too, one does not finish Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex altogether free from the impression that all our talk of free will here on earth is not really just one big cosmic farce. For, while Oedipus Rex does raise the above problems, it does not, ultimately, answer them in the way that’s popularly understood, i.e. Oedipus, cursed by the gods, was fated to kill his father and marry (and sire children with) his mother. So, what does Oedipus do? What Oedipus learns—that he is in fact the murderer—does not sit well, and here, we get a glimpse of the old Oedipus as he rebukes Teiresias:

Source: Forbes August 31, 2017 19:52 UTC