... marry her son, she was unable to do so. Even though she gives up her son to death in the useless hope to avoid fate, the oracle seals her destiny. However, later on, she herself admits that "chance rules our life", for she realizes that all that efforts are not enough to change the predestined course of her life. Jocasta's calm and reasonable brother, Creon, also support the philosophy that simple mortal do not control life, but gods control human's destiny. Calm and in control, he announce to Oedipus before his self-proclaimed banishment, by saying that, "god will decide not I." therefore, it shows that no one can predict their own future because what happenings in our life are decided by a greater force than humanity that is the control of the gods and human beings have little say in their destiny. Even when others interfere in one's life, fate will ...

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