Oedipus Rex, The outsider. How do the statements of fate, free will, religion and death differ or coincide in these two opposite works of literature?

Two totally different works, one written by a Greek philosopher in the ancient Greece, the other written in 1940 by a French writer. In most aspects the ideas and facts that affect our lives in these two stories are separated by two societies, two ways of thinking but in the end there is a contrast between the idea in Oedipus Rex and the main character in the outsider, Mersault, as well as similarities in the idea of fate, free will and religion with the society we live in now a days.
I will emphasize this comparison with the outsider’s second part, where Mersault already knows his fate and obliged by his human nature, he starts to think and hope for a way to escape his death. For the first time in his life he separates the idea he always lived with of living the now not caring for his past or future, he fantasizes a guillotine that wont work and comes up with new ways of execution where there can actually be a way to be saved.
At the time where Oedipus is close to finding the tr...