Q. Do you feel sympathetic toward Oedipus and his situation? Why or why not?
A. I do not feel sympathetic toward Oedipus and his situation because he brought it upon himself. Yes, he was shown his fate and he had no choice other then to accept it. But he refused what he was told by the seer, Tiresias, which in turn was the will of the gods, the one's who controlled the whole world. He tried to make his own fate. In doing so, he made himself kill his father and marry his mother. He wouldn't have killed his father if he didn't want to get with his mother. So I think he was his own reason for stabbing his eyes out, whether it was fate's path he took, it sure looked like he made all the choices in his tragedy.
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