Oedipus Cycle

"Fear? What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth can see a day ahead, groping through the dark. Better to live at random, best we can. And as for this marriage with your mother- have no fear. Many a man before you, in his dreams, has shared his mother's bed. Take such things for shadows, nothing at all- Live, Oedipus, as if there's no tomorrow!" Jocasta's lines best express the essence of the story: free will versus determination. In the Oedipus Cycle, sophocles shows us that fate can control much in a person's life. We often suffer from situations presented to us that are beyond our control such as the family we are born into or disabilities we inherit. Sophocles teaches us that we must not brood over pa...