Free Will vs Fate

The dialectical tension between interpretations of destiny and free
will does not render an absolute logic in Sophocles' play Oedipus the
King.  We still discuss the play's thematic importance after more
than two thousand years, a truism which reinforces its complex
structure, and the antagonistic relationship between fate and human
responsibility still challenges and defines our ideas about tragedy. 
Many will argue that the figure of Oedipus epitomizes tragedy by
nature of his inability to circumvent prophecy a...