Explain why Oedipus could not do anything to avoid his fate in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.

In the
tradition of many mythological stories, humans did not have much control over their lives. The
godsor even the Fates (the title="the Moirai">Moirai)determined what happened in a man's life. The
Greeks were certain that a human never determined his destiny. In '
,was destined to unknowingly do what the Greeks believed to be the
unthinkable:

Oedipus was born to King Laius and Queen . In
the most well-known version of the myth, Laius wished to thwart a prophecy saying that his child
would grow up to murder his father and marry his mother.

Laius abandons his son on a...