That their lives may turn out if they try to be happy and if they are protected by their uncle Creon summarizes what Oedipus says to his daughters in the monologue in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, disgraced Theban King Oedipus says that the Princesses Antigone and Ismene will be shunned and taunted for being both the daughters and half-sisters of their own father and both the daughters and granddaughters of their own mother. He states that their lives have the possibilities of being friendless, spouseless and childless because of their father killing their grandfather and marrying their grandmother. But at the same time, Oedipus suggests that their positive attitudes may make a difference, particularly if their uncle Creon, as Oedipus' brother-in-law and royal successor, becomes their guardian.

That Creon is Oedipus' foil and that Creon thinks before he speaks whereas Oedipus does not is the relationship between Oedipus' hamartia and Creon's saying "I have not come, oh Oedipus to scorn" in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, hamartia describes an error or mistake in judgment. Disgraced King Oedipus makes a number of mistakes: avoiding a genealogical confrontation with his parents, killing an older version of himself, marrying a beautiful woman old enough to be his mother, neglecting mandatory cleansing rituals, and not thinking before pledging to carry out rash promises that will come back to haunt him. The relentless Furies of fate and his own mistakes trip him up until he is friendless, homeless, jobless, spouseless and sightless. At the depths of such misery, Creon treats him decently even though it is not based on any previous decency from Oedipus.

That it affects the choices of the main characters is the role of fate in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban monarchs Laius and Jocasta hear that their son Oedipus is fated to grow up to kill his father. So they leave him to die from exposure on the mountains outside Thebes. But Oedipus manages to survive, only to hear a similarly prophesied fate. Like his parents, Oedipus patterns his choices against fulfillment of his fate as his father's killer, his mother's husband and his children's half-sibling.

Blow

Floe

Flow

Glow

Lo

Low

Sloe

Slow;

Aglow

Below

Tableau;

Buffalo

Bungalow

Calico

Overflow

(Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. Copyright 1963)