FATE AND FREE WILL IN SOPHOCLES' OEDIPUS REX

Sophocles' Edipus Rex presents a intriguing exploration of the fraught relationship between fate and free will. The piteous hero, Oedipus, is driven by an unrelenting foreordained path to expose a murder that he unknowingly committed. Throughout the play, Sophocles constructs a narrative line where Oedipus's every deed seems preordained by the gods