Oepidus Rex

My big question is: How do the everyday things we do effect our lives in the long run?In the play "Oedipus Rex", Sophocles addresses this question by telling the story of a man who tried to fight fate.

By going to the oracle in the first place, he set the stage for his struggle. Escaping his fate meant so much to him that he ran away. On the road, he met and killed a man who turns out to be his father. The choice of Oedipus to leave the City where he was residing and refuse to step aside for three minutes while the other pased is an example of a choice that changed his life forever. Patience is a virtue, and i feel as if he could have easily avoided "weaving his own doom".

In addition, the decision to travel to Thebes instead of any other town would have prevented him from marrying his mother. His CHOICE to try to solve the sphynx's riddle is just another example of how seeminlgy miniscule decisions can change a life forever.