Human Creates Their own Fate

In our everyday life people make choices, these choices either have a negative consequence or a positive one. Base on our free will we choose to do as we please. Example, some of us when we are young we aspire to be nurses, doctors or whatever the case may be. Sometimes we are encouraged to make the choices that will lead us into those careers or sometimes at the very last minute we choose to back out. All in all we exercise free will, which leads us to make those choices. Whether or not it is our destiny to be a doctor or not, somewhere along the way we consciously make the decision that takes us to our final career path. Likewise in this paper I intend to talk about the themes of sight and blindness, with respect to Oedipus and Tiresias. Also look at free- will versus destiny with regards to Oedipus and Jocasta. The play Oedipus is full of symbolism pertaining to these themes which will support my argument as whether or not man’s free- will which leads him to make choices to turn ...