In the beginning, Laius and Jocasta, Oedipus’s parents, had a chance to prevent the realization of their son’s “destiny”, but their actions did otherwise. Once the oracle had told the two of what was to come of their family’s lives, they decided to get rid of Oedipus. They gave him to a mountain shepherd with ins

Lastly, Oedipus’s pride, ignorance, and disbelief in the gods played a significant part in the fulfillment of Apollo’s prophesy. Initially, he ran away from Corinth in hopes of outsmarting the gods’ divine will. After that, he called the oracle of Apollo a liar when he was told that he himself was his father’s murderer. It is never a good thing to call a god a liar. The chorus says that you must have respect for the gods and not have too much pride, or “may an evil doom smite [you]”. By having these negative qualities and knowingly acting in accordance with them, he placed upon himself the evil doom of killing his father and marrying his mother.

tructions to leave him to die of exposure. Instead, the shepherd gave Oedipus to another shepherd, who in turn gave him to a foreign King and Queen. Thus, Oedipus was not killed and was able lived a life in which he could (unintentionally) carry out the actions that were foretold by the oracle. What Laius and Jocasta could have done to wipe out any chance of him killing Laius and marrying Jocasta was to kill Oedi

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