Justice In Oedipus The King

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Is fate or justice determined by a higher power, is the question many ask. In the play Oedipus, there is significant proof of a higher power that determined the fate of Oedipus and others. Although a great man, Oedipus lost his kingdom and everything else that he held dear, due to a prophecy that came true. . The prophecy being “He shall be proved father and brothers both to his own children in his house; to her that gave him birth, a son and husband both a fellow sower in his father’s bed”(Sophocles 535-539). “O no! Once on a time said Loxais said that I should lie with my mother and take on my hand the blood of my own father” (1125). This was predicted by the Oracle long ago, and shows how divine intervention occurs throughout

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