She is my mother, and my brothers, the Months, have seen me both small and great. But I deem myself the child of Chance, who gives good things, and I will not be dishonored. But she, since a woman is proud of such things, she is troubled by this low birth of mine. After uncovering the reality of his introduction to the world from the shepherd, Oedipus shouts out, “Let it all burst out, if it must! As for me, though it be small, I wish to know my stock. However, all his activities drew him nearer to his fate. Oedipus figured he could conquer the divine beings.

Oedipus got maddened and considered the visually impaired prophet a liar.

After threatening Tiresias, a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, an unequivocal model can be seen when Oedipus was told that he was at fault for Laius’ homicide. His obliviousness, pride and callous journey for reality added to his devastation. Oedipus’s venture looking for Laius’ killer has only helped the prophecy become a reality. Sophocles shows a connection between man’s free will and fate by having Oedipus carry out his own prophecy starting with his personal desire to seek out the killer of King Laius. He trusts and predicts that the killer’s life would be long and anguishing. As Oedipus wishes misfortune upon the killer, he does that to himself. And I pray, if he should be known to me and share in my hearth among my family, that I suffer all that I called upon these”. Yet in his quickness, he energetically curses the killer, and in this way, unwittingly curses himself, “I curse the doer, whether he worked alone or evaded us with accomplices, that he wear out his unlucky life as badly as he himself is bad. At the point when he learned of Apollo’s promise, he could have been in a calm and peaceful manner examined the homicide of the previous King Laius. Oedipus could have trusted that the plague would end, yet out of empathy for his enduring individuals, he had Creon, the brother of Queen Jocasta go to Delphi. From the earliest starting point of this catastrophe, Oedipus took numerous activities leading his very own destruction.

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles