Relationship Between Prophecy And Oedipus

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The relationship Sophocles establishes between prophecy and Oedipus’s actions is Oedipus attempted to escape Apollo’s prophecy, but by doing this he accidentally fulfilled Teiresias's prophecy that he would kill Laius. Oedipus was told he was “not [his] father’s real son”(line 936). Oedipus went to Apollo to find an answer but he told him “monstrous things, strange terrors, and horrific miseries.” Oedipus was destined to “defile [his] mother’s bed’ and “murder the father who engendered [him].” In attempt to escape Apollo’s prophecy, Oedipus “ran away from Corinth” so that he could not hurt his mother or his father. (lines 951–955). While Oedipus was running away from Corinth, he came across a “herald and a horse-drawn carriage.” One of these

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