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That it gives Oedipus a chance to survive and live out his dreadful fate is the way in which fortune is important in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, fortune refers to chance. It is chance that the Corinthian shepherd herds his flocks outside Thebes and gets Oedipus from the Theban shepherd who is supposed to kill the three-day-old infant by exposure. It is chance that Oedipus heads from Delphi to Thebes at the same time that Theban King Laius leaves from Thebes for Delphi. It is chance that Oedipus gets to Thebes in time to outwit the Sphinx and marry the beautiful widowed Queen Jocasta.

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