... place to change it. When Oedipus was first born to King Laius of Thebes and his wife Jocasta, the god Apollo told of his terrible fate. Oedipus speaks of it: 'I must marry my mother...and kill my father'1 His parents could not let this awful fate prevail so they gave the child to their servant, a shepherd, to leave on a mountainside to die. Had this have been done by the shepherd, the subsequent events would have been prevented but one cannot mess with fate. The shepherd, not having the heart to leave a baby to die, gave him to another shepherd who then passed him on to his Lord, the King of Corinth, Polybus, who decided to keep the child and raise him as though he was his own. Thus, Oedipus was allowed to live and to fulfil his horrible fate and in doing so become a very destructive ...

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