Topics: Antithesis. Upon receiving the prophecy that his son Oedipus will kill him and marry his mother and commit incest with her, King Laius of his own free will ordered that Oedipus feet be bound by riveting his ankles together and sent him to Mount Cithaeron to perish. Laius, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that his son would slay him. Accordingly, when his wife, Jocasta bore a son, he exposed the baby on Mt.
King Laius exercised his free will when he chose to believe that the prophecy would come true. Creon thought by making an example of Antigone's execution, everybody would get scared and won't try to brake his laws. It actually worked for a while. Creon abused his power by thinking that he can change or brake the laws of the Gods and not allowing other people to brake his laws.
He did not want to burry Polyneices' body, but one of the God's law is that every human deserves to be buried after death not depending what that certain person did in his lifetime. Creon caused fear among his people by making a public announcement that nobody is allowed to burry Polyneices.
He was his own worst enemy because he, just like all of the other conspirators, had no reason as to why Caesar should have been killed by them. Brutus had too many minds thinking about what was best against his own. Had he listened to Cassius, he mostly likely would have gotten away with everything and would not have had to kill himself. Had he listened to himself and never Cassius, he would never had to kill himself. It is his own fault that his life spiralled down a nasty path.
The oracle might have predicted his downfall, but he was never born with the misfortune he claimed that is bestowed upon him by the gods. The choices that he made are the ones that make his path in life and no one else but him will push him to go through with it.
Leaving Corinth was a decision he made on his own to escape. Killing off the men that cut him off the road is his conclusion to put out his anger. On the contrary, he took full responsibility for his actions, even though he had no evil intent. On the other hand, neither was he fated to blind himself at the end of the chronicle; he could have accepted his banishment and gone on with his life as best he could.
As a result, he is shunned by the Greeks for the ghastly deed of self-mutilation. Oedipus may have been destined to share an incestuous relationship with his mother and to kill his father, but the other aspects of his life were a result of his choices. Sympathy is felt for Antigone because she was punished for take a stand for what she believed to be the right thing.
Unfortunately the risk she took was going against her uncle Creon, who so happened to have power over her. It was a tragic situation that Antigone was to be killed for such a ridiculous crime. Although Antigone should not have been punished for that law she had broken, she was willing to accept her death sentence. It has been discussed how fate plays an important role in the lives and actions of King Oedipus.
All his life, try as he may to run away from his fate, Oedipus ended up running right into it. Oedipus realizes that, in the end, he could do nothing to change the course of the fateful events that made up his life. Am I not utterly foul? Banished from here, and in my banishment debarred from home and from my fatherland, which I must shun forever, lest I live to make my mother my wife, and kill my father. Polybus, to whom 6 I owe my life.
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