| The second prophecy that Oedipus receives when he is older is just as important and germane as the first. He is given a prophecy while in Corinth, saying that he would one day marry his mother and kill his father. | |
| Disgusted by such foreboding and in an attempt to escape the prophecy altogether, he leaves Corinth and refuses to come back. It is on his way towards Thebes, however, that he meets his father on the road. Not knowing that he is king, they get into an argument and Oedipus kills him (Laura Webb). Thus the first part of his fate has come to pass. If Oedipus had never received the second prophecy in Corinth, he would not have left and would have never been given the opportunity to run into his father, unknowingly, in Thebes. The oracles in the Oedipus Trilogy speak truly, although very vaguely, about the situations that those involved will face. These prophecies, the divine will of the Gods, play key parts when viewing the role of fate in the Oedipal Trilogy (cliffnotes.com). | |
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