Destiny, Fate, Free Will and Free Choice in Oedipus the King - Oedipus and Fate :: Oedipus the King Oedipus Rex

Oedipus the fairy and Fate        D.T. Suzuki, a renowned expert on Zen Buddhism, called assist to the topic of free testament in one of his lectures by stating that it was the appointment of God versus Man, Man versus God, God versus Nature, Nature versus God, Man versus Nature, Nature versus Man1.  These half dozen battles constitute an ultimately greater battle the battle of free will versus determinism.  openhanded will is that ability for a hu piece being to retain decisions as to what life he or she would like to lead and corroborate the freedom to live according to their own means and thus ingest their own destiny determinism is the circumstance of a higher being ordaining a mans life from the day he was born until the day he dies.  Free will is in itself a far-reaching ideal that exemplifies the essence of what mankind could be when he determines his own intend.  But with determinism, a man has a predetermine destiny and fate that absolutely cannot be altered by the man himself.  Yet, it has been the desire of man to avoid the perils that his fate ho lds andthus he perpetually attempts to thwart fate and the will of the divine.. Within the principle of determinism, this outright joust to divine mandate is blasphemous and considered sin.  This ideal itself, and the whole concept of determinism, is kinda common in the workings of Greek and Classical literature. A apparent example of this was the infamous Oedipus of The Theban Plays, a man who tried to hold back fate, and therefore sinned.         The logic of Oedipus transgression is actually quite obvious,  and Oedipus father, King Laius, to a fault has an analogous methodology and transgression.  They both had unfortunate destinies Laius was destined to be killed by his own son, and Oedipus was destined to kill his father and marry his mother.  This was the ominous monastic order from the divinatory Oracle at Delphi.  King Laius feared the Oracles proclamation and had his son, the one and alone Oedipus, abandoned on a mountain with iron spikes as nails so that he would remain there to eventually die.  And yet, his attempt to obstruct fate was a failure, for a kindly shepherd