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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.

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