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The Themes of Oedipus the King     In the see Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, two themes appear one that humans have flyspeck control of their lives because helping always catches up with them and the theme that when someone nocks a mistake, they will have to pay for it.   The theme that the lives of humans are controlled by the gods, in Oedipus, show that everything humans do are futile and resolvent in no gain but just now loss. This theme is in general shown by the character Oedipus, king of Thebes. In the beginning of his life, Laius the king plan to kill his son by leaving him on Mount Cithaeron to die. ...at the blink of an eye I was your savior.   From the very beginning, Oedipus was destined to fulfill Apollos prophecy of killing his father. sluice though King Lauis tries to kill Oedipus to stop the fulfillment of this shameful prophecy, fate drives the Corinthian messenger to save Oedipus. What the gods fortell will come true and no hu man can stop it from happening, not even the kings. Oedipus is once once again controlled by this power when he leaves the place of his child hood later he hears that he is to kill his father and marry his mother. I shall cut back from nothing...to find the the murderer of Laius...You are the murderer... Oedipus tried to stop the prophecy from sexual climax true by leaving Corinth and only fate can make Oedipus turn to the road where he kills his true father. Leaving Corinth makes Oedipus lose his puerility by making him worry of such issues young flock should not have to worry about and becoming a king of a strange land. Last of all, Oedipus carries the last part of the prophecy out, marrying his mother. I would... neer have been known as my mothers husband. Oedipus has no control over the matter of his life. Fate causes Oedipus to have known the answer to the Sphinxs riddle and win his coupling to his mother, Jocasta. Had fate not intervened, the chances of m arrying Jocasta would have been small since there is an enourmous number of people and places to go. Oedipus loses his sense of dignity after he discovers he is not only a murderer, but also that he had committed incest.