Past Events and Oedipus Rex

In most colossal works of literature, historic issuances turn tail a signifi fuckingt part, twain positively and negatively, in affecting the values, present actions, and attitudes of a character. Whether the event be personal or societal, the impact these events have on a character raft ultimately affect the signification of the work immensely. In Oedipus Rex, the briny character, Oedipus, becomes aware of several past events which contri providede to the play and his what seems to be his fate - several events that will the reader to understand his reasoning behind decisions he makes. As Oedipus develops his relationship with the past events, a theme of of the play is revealed that act to escape the ruthless realities in the world is impossible and disapproving events must happen at one point or another.\nThe past events that Laius experience affect Oedipus in his search to key come on the former kings receiver, and influenced how they lead Oedipus to carry out the pr ophecy he dreaded. He said that a pile of highwaymen attacked them, outnumbered them, and overwhelmed the major power (9). Although Laius tried to vitiate his fate by displace his son on the slew to die, he was still bulgeed as predicted, nonetheless. Oedipus, as a child, had no control over what was accident at the time, but his draw drove him to eventually land his own father. One cannot stay off fate, but the actions one takes can postpone it. Oedipus was merely at the right place at the right time to kill Laius and his men. Laius only postponed his fate when he allowed Oedipus to grow up as a stranger alternatively than killing him, leading to the fulfillment of their fates. Oedipus is then pushed to become the King of Thebes and eventually marry Jocasta.\nOedipus is a character who tries to avoid the right and the word of the Gods for his personal beliefs by deciding to escape the integrity of reality:...that damned man, the murderer of Laius, that man is in Thebe s. To your intellect he is foreign born, but it will ...