Thesis for Oedipus Rex and fate?

Oedipus's father was once told that his son would end up killing him and marrying his wife, and so Oedipus was sent in a faraway kingdom to live with some other king and queen. When Oedipus grows up, he was told of the same thing, and so he fled the palace. On the road, he met his true father and ended up killing him in a battle. He goes to his original kingdom (completely oblivious) and fights off some monster and marries the queen. He marries his mother. (I still can't get over that.) Years after he found out about what he had truly done, he pokes out his eyes and puts his own self in exile.

About the question:

I think that fate is responsible for Oedipus' destruction because it was already laid out by destiny that he would kill his father and marry his mother, and he had absolutely no control over it. He cannot escape that fact, or avoid it, it simply must happen as if it was sketched by the stars. Fate is responsible for Oedipus' destruction, but not entirely. If only he bothered to learn about his true history, then maybe he wouldn't have traveled and end up doing what the prophets have warned them about. But in the end, Oedipus was mainly so grave stricken and blinded himself, not because he was so incredibly wrong, murdered his father, doomed his kingdom, and married his own mother, but because he received ultimate pleasure and happiness from what he has done -- the sin, the treachery, the murder. He killed his father and had many regrets, true; but I think he never really regretted marrying his own mother and having his two children, Antigone and Ismene, and that's what probably drove him mad.

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