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sore a grief to my friends and to my own soul" (Sophocles 145). With words like these, Sophocles seems to be saying that "character is fate" and that Oedipus had no control over what would happen to him in his life. This is substantiated by Jocasta's insistence that Oedipus' father, King Laius, had been informed of the prophecy as well, an though he tried to prevent it he only played into the hands of fate. "An oracle came to Laius once . . . that the doom should overtake him to die by the hand

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