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Is there freewill in Oedipus Rex?

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Freewill is not really a theme in this play, but rather it is about fate. It was predetermined that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother - even before he was born it was revealed to his parents by the oracle. It would have come about one way or another because it was his fate and the will of the gods and so on.

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