... is doomed to murder his father and sleep with his mother. Hearing this, "[he] [flees] Corinth, measuring [his] progress by the stars, searching for a place where [he] would never see those words, those dreadful predictions come true" (p.59). The fact that he believes that he can change his fate, immediately after having it being shown to him by Apollo, shows that he has more faith in his own power than the power of the gods. It is thus apparent that Oedipus rejects the power of the gods over the outcome of his life. The reader later realizes that it is his defiance of the gods that leads to his ultimate removal from society. When Oedipus finally realizes that the will of the gods has prevailed and that his attempts to thwart their will have failed, he is exiled from Thebes and other characters are shown to distance themselves from ...

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