In the play "Oedipus the King," Oedipus as a king was concerned about the interests of the people he ruled, and it was this that brought to his awareness the sins he had committed; he was remorseful and took clear actions or judgments which he had passed to anyone who was the cause of the terrible plague that was devastating the kingdom. Oedipus as a son (to his foster parents) got the message of the prophecy and tried to avert it by running away; with his actions one can say that Oedipus wouldn't have fulfilled the prophecy of killing his father and sleeping with his mother if his parents hadn't tried to kill him as an infant.
             It is clear and obvious to anyone reading or who has read the play that the main character, King Oedipus was a person of high moral and ethical behavior. As a king, he truly cared for his kingdom and desperately desires to find out what was the cause of the terrible plague that was devastating his kingdom, the city of Thebes. Once the king found out that he was the cause for the pain and suffering of his people, for one who had no clue of a sin he had been guilty of, he became remorseful and immediately assumed the blame and behaved in drastic ways. He took the guilt onto himself very quickly, without trying to defend his innocence in the situation once. "Ah, God! It was true! All the prophecies! Now, O light, may I look on you for the last time!..." (Sophocles 88) With these actions he took, this goes a long way to show that if his parents had not wanted to kill him he would have seen his fate, and he would have changed his fate by not fulfilling the prophecy.
             If a regular person found out about a sin, which he or she had been committing, he/she would surely seek solace in the fact that he/she did not know about the situation. King Oedipus did not know that he had been committing the grave sin of incest and murdering of his father. He did not create the situation where his parents gave him to a slave t...