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The Themes of Oedipus the King     In the play Oedipus the King, by Sophocles, two themes appear one that gentles have little control of their lives because fate always catches up with them and the theme that when someone makes a mistake, they will have to pay for it.   The theme that the lives of humans be controlled by the gods, in Oedipus, show that everything humans do are futile and result in no gain but single loss. This theme is mainly shown by the character Oedipus, great power of Thebes. In the beginning of his life, Laius the king planned to kill his son by go away him on Mount Cithaeron to die. ...at the moment I was your savior.   From the very beginning, Oedipus was destined to fulfill Apollos prodigy 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 human can stop it from happening, not even the kings. Oedipus is once again controlled by this power when he leaves the place of his child hood after he hears that he is to kill his father and marry his mother. I shall shrink from nothing...to find the the murderer of Laius...You are the murderer... Oedipus tried to stop the prophecy from coming 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 childhood by making him worry of much(prenominal) issues young people 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... never have been known as my mothers husband. Oedipus has no control over the outcome of his life. Fate causes Oedipus to have known the answer to the Sphinxs riddle and coax his marriage to his mother, Jocasta. Had fate not intervened, the chances of marrying Jocasta woul d 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.