Jocasta's philosophy of life is part of the main issue of Sophocles' play 'King Oedipus': destiny vs. freewill. Her statement "chance rules our lives", however, is quite ironic as Jocasta had taken the fate of her son, Oedipus, very seriously when he was first born, so much so as to have him left to die on Mount Cithaeron in order to avoid his destiny. Oedipus is also very closely related to this debate. Was it …
showed first 75 words of 759 total

showed last 75 words of 759 total
…h, were just. "It must be so." It was a mixture of fate and freewill that determined the lives of the characters in the play. Any attempts that they made to avoid their foretold destinies appeared to be in vain as their fates were already set. However, there were choices that each character could have made in order to change the outcome of their lives but their own flaws would never have let this happen.