Outrunning Fate Part 2

So we have seen throughout all the Greek writings that fate is highly important.  No matter how hard you try, you cannot outrun fate.  Every characters attempt, especially in the Oedipus play, always fails without a doubt.  For example, in the Oedipus play every time a character attempted to change their fate it only pushed it more forward to actually happening.  I wonder if the characters stopped trying to actually change their fate and embraced it or were more careful about their fates maybe it might actually change on it's own.  I say this because if Oedipus's parents actually kept him knowing he was fated to kill his own parents and marry his mother then all that probably would not have happened.  If Oedipus grew up with his actual parents and then moved out when he got older because he realized his fate then he would not have wound up marrying his own mother.  He also may not have killed his parents, but that is just an assumption.  However, like I said in a previous post about outrunning fate that no matter how brave or important you are, if you are handed a bad fate you will fight as hard as possible to change it even if it means sending your own child away like Jocasta did or moving away from your supposed parents like Oedipus did.  

Also, if Jocasta's husband died and she knew her son was fated to marry his mother and Oedipus knowing he was fated to marry his mother why would they get remarried/married?  For Oedipus's sake he was unaware that his mother wasn't actually his biological mother, but I would have been a little bit more careful if I was given that sort of fate.  Jocasta attempted this by trying to keep Oedipus from finding out the truth but by that point it was already too late.  I guess it goes to show that humans are terrible at embracing their fate.  I almost feel like the whole point of fate is to try to disprove it only to make it actually happen.  If Hector actually fought Achilles instead wearing himself out by running around a wall three or four times maybe he would have actually won, but that wasn't his fate. Unfortunately, to Oedipus's dismay his fate eventually came true just like Hector's.


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