Discuss how death contributes to the overall tragic vision of the work as a whole in Oedipus the King.

There
are some specific actions that keytake regarding death that have a huge effect on the
fulfillment of the Oracle's prediction thatwould "kill his father and marry his
mother."

Firstconfesses that she has beaten the Oracle at it's own game
by taking a child that she had and ordering a shepherd to abandon it and leave it to die.  In
this way, she would avoid the prediction by taking matters (and Fate) into her own hands -- if
it had worked.

When Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would kill his father
and marry his mother, he left his home with his "father" Lepidus, and travelled to
escape this prediction.  He met a man on the road as stubborn as himself, and when neither would
move aside to let the other pass on the narrow road, he, in a rage, killed this man and went on
his way.

Of course, it is...