Free fallin'

OEDIPUS: Ah God!
It was true!
All the prophecies!
--Now,
O light, may I look on you for the last time!
I, Oedipus,
Oedipus, damned in his birth, in his marriage damned,
Damned in the blood he shed with his own hand!

In the story of Oedipus Rex, the main character Oedipus is haunted by his ill fate. Before he was even born, his fate became known to his mother and father. He was destined to kill his father and sleep with his mother. His father, being king could not afford to have his first son murder him, so Oedipus was sent away as a baby. As Oedipus grew up and became familiar with his fate. He decided to move away from his foster parents, who he thought were his real parents, in hopes to change his fate. He did not know that those were not his real parents. By the end of the story it is apparent that Oedipus' fate came true and that he ended up marrying his mother and killing his father who at the time he thought was robbing him. No matter how hard Oedipus tried to run away from his fate, in the end it came true. In the passage above Oedipus realizes that his fate has come true and conceives that there was nothing he could do to have stopped it. "He was damned at birth" and he did not have the power to change that.