People don't like to believe they are puppets on strings, because free will is more fun, exciting, and empowering. But unfortunately it doesn't matter what people think, because their future has already been decided. Especially if you're a hero, chances are your fate has already been sealed. As dramatic and mystical as it may seem, but fate prevails over free will. No matter what path one takes and what kind of extreme measure a person is willing to take, whether it is their destiny to gain something, lose something, or do something, they will do it. However, free will has a role to play. Sophocles explores the role of fate in his famous play, Oedipus the King, as an invisible power that controls the lives of the characters. He describes fate as a force against free will. While some may disagree, saying that you choose your own destiny or that your destiny is only determined by the choices you make, it's hard to argue about something we have very little to no control over, that is, destiny. In the story, Jocasta and Laius, queen and king of ancient Greece, discovered that they would have a son. But they didn't know it: from the moment Jocasta became pregnant, fate had already decided what would happen to him. Even before he was born, Oedipus was destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Despite his parents' attempt to kill him as a child and Oedipus himself fleeing from his fate, the outcome remained unchanged. Fate used everyone and made them participate in the tragedy. Even without the actions of Oedipus' parents, Teiresias, and the gods, Oedipus would still have killed his father and married his mother. Although the blame for the Oedipus tragedy may fall on many different people, in the end fate is in f...... middle of paper ......and God because he thought he was just as powerful, and who figured that by revealing his fate, which he had been told not to meddle with, would do what it had done to himself. Fate and free will both play their roles in Oedipus Rex, to show how a person is bound by the fate set for them. Yet it is the actions chosen by free will that progress even if slightly that seal fate. Oedipus, destined for tragedy, made all of his choices throughout the entire play through reason and thought, completely aware that the decisions he made were his, and his alone. However, what was destined finally came true. So what really is free will? Does he have control over the outcome of events in life or is he simply in control of himself until an outcome is achieved? We have always considered fate and free will to be opposites, but perhaps they are two completely different things from the beginning.