The cost of “free” will in Oedipus Rex (the King)Perhaps the Greek playwright Sophocles never had the concept of “free will” in head when he wrote Oedipus the King, but the play allows for this interesting paradox that we know today as free will. The paradox is this: if the oracles of the gods tell Oedipus that he will kill his father and marry his mother, does he have the power to avoid this fate? This is a fundamental question of free will. If Oedipus can avoid killing his father and marrying his mother, he will prove the gods wrong, and the oracle's prediction turns out to be no prediction at all. How free can we truly be if we are created by an omniscient being? If God knows, even before we are born, that we are already destined to ascend to Heaven or burn in Hell, can we move forward in life by making truly free decisions? Or should we always be seen as puppets of destiny? Was Adam responsible for the fall? Or was this really God's plan? So what is this idea of ​​“original sin”? Should we not celebrate Adam as a hero for freeing man from the state of unconsciousness in which he lived until he consumed the sacred pomegranate? Remember that the very first line following Adam and Eve's sin is "And they saw that they were naked." This nudity is not so much the body (even if the first Christians liked to see it that way), but rather the feeling of seeing, as Joseph Campbell says, "duality", the fundamental difference between man and nature. woman, good and evil. and, ultimately, man and God. What Adam and Eve finally see is themselves, and they see that they are not gods, and they see mortality. Their eyes were therefore awakened. When they had eyes in Eden, they were blind, and now that they are blind to God, they can see. This same idea appears in Oedipus the King, which could be read as the Greek version of the Hebrew story. But should God have created Adam from harsher material? Whose fault is the fall? And did Adam really have free will? Could he have said “No” when Eve offered him the fruit? Most arguments about free will arise from observing perspective seeing. In other words, it depends on the fact that we cannot see what is destined, so we are said to have a choice..