I believe that people often feel the need to flee whenever something bad may happen in order to prevent their disastrous destiny from becoming their treacherous reality. Yet in Oedipus Rex he not only fulfilled is horrid destiny when he ran away, he also destroyed his life and that of his families, by being a coward and not facing the truth in the beginning. If Oedipus had stayed where he was and confronted his dread, he would have discovered that he should never leave his place, for that if he were to depart then it could result in him marrying his mother and killing his father. Oedipus Rex displays the idea that you cannot run from your troubles because they will not only follow you but they will also heighten the more you hide.
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I believe that people often feel the need to flee whenever something bad may happen in order to prevent their disastrous destiny from becoming their treacherous reality. Yet in Oedipus Rex he not only fulfilled is horrid destiny when he ran away, he also destroyed his life and that of his families, by being a coward and not facing the truth in the beginning. If Oedipus had stayed where he was and confronted his dread, he would have discovered that he should never leave his place, for that if he were to depart then it could result in him marrying his mother and killing his father. Oedipus Rex displays the idea that you cannot run from your troubles because they will not only follow you but they will also heighten the more you hide.
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