Because the validity of this question can not be determined, this idea enters the realm of philosophy. ... This definition would imply that fate has an overwhelming power of the mind and that a person has no ability to control it. ... Sophocles has shown at many different places within the play Oedipus the King that he believes in the philosophy that life is predestined and that people can not change their own fate. ...

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