How Did Oedipus Change His Fate

“An ignorant person is the blind instrument of their own deconstruction.” - Simon Bolivar In the story of “Oedipus the King,” Oedipus, not knowingly, tried to change his fate. A person’s fate is there to stick with them, it is inevitable and not something to be tampered with. He did not know as much about himself as he thought he did and in the end, his stubbornness leads to a tragic downfall.
If Oedipus would have just left things alone, the people would have eventually just moved on. He was set on finding the killer of King Laius that he did not realize he was just pushing the people closer and closer to himself. He did not care about who killed the king, he just wanted to make himself look better for Jocasta and the rest of the people of the village outside of Athens. …show more content…
Oedipus went to his parents who told him that they just took him in and he was still star struck by the idea. When he and Jocasta discussed the problem and how she had a child that was doomed to do the same thing, Oedipus thought of it as a total coincidence but Jocasta starts catching on and tells him to just drop the issue but he still does not. As a result of him not giving up, Jocasta hangs herself because she is so ashamed of what she had done. When Oedipus finds his partner lying on the floor dead, he finally comes to his senses and realizes what he has done and gouges is eyes out as a