“Fate” Throughout Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus The classical Greek writers have given the world major literary themes. One such theme is “Fate”. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language the word fate is defined as “the principal or determining cause or will by which things in general are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do: destiny”(529). …showed first 75 words of 2212 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2212 total…plague infecting the city. An Oracle was contacted and the way to solve this riddle was to banish the killer of the former king Laius from the city. Oedipus in the process of solving the riddle Oedipus found out that Jocasta was in-fact is real mother "But she, perhaps ... I have her for mother..."(pg39 ln1-5). When Jocasta finds this out he then kills her self, "The illustrious Jocasta is no more..."(pg44 ln18).