Oedipus fate-free will textual reference

Oedipus (speaker)-Here I am myself—

you all know me, the world knows my fame:
I am Oedipus.

Oedipus-Now my curse on the murderer. Whoever he is,

a lone man unknown in his crime
or one among many, let that man drag out
his life in agony, step by painful step—

Tiresias to oedipus-No man will ever

be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.

Tiresias to oedipus-Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich,
he will grope his way toward a foreign soil,
a stick tapping before him step by step.

Jocasta to oedipus-Listen to me and learn some peace of mind:

no skill in the world,
nothing human can penetrate the future.

The chorus-Great laws tower above us, reared on high

born for the brilliant vault of heaven—
Olympian Sky their only father,
nothing mortal, no man gave them birth,
their memory deathless, never lost in sleep:
within them lives a mighty god, the god does not
grow old(about god and prophecies …praising gods that why their prophecies are
important and true)

Oedipus to himself-My destiny, my dark power, what a leap you made!

Chorus-Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day,

count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

Rosie Wyles-
Oedipus' confidence makes him utterly blind to the truth infant of him and deaf in
the sense that he refuses to listen to the advice given by those around him.

Garvie - victor
'In one sense, Oedipus does not fall at all. He set out to uncover the truth, and
by the end of the play he has succeeded in his quest'

E.R. Dodds- the story is 'a tragedy of destiny'"And that the play proves that man
has no free will but is a puppet in the hands of the gods

Edith Hall -'his fate is rendered justifiable by his abrasive personality'

Ruth Scodel (control)-'a warning not to believe that a human being can control his
life'