The cost of "free" will in Oedipus Rex (the King) Perhaps the Greek playwright Sophocles never had the concept of "free will" in mind when he wrote Oedipus Rex , but the work allows for that interesting paradox we know today as free will. The paradox is: if the oracles of the gods tell Oedipus that he will kill his father and marry his mother, will he have any power to avoid this fate? This is a fundamental question about free will. If Oedipus manages to avoid killing his father and marrying his mother, he will prove the gods wrong, and the oracle's prediction will turn out to not be a prediction at all. How free can we truly be if created by an omniscient being? If God knows, even in the moment before we are born, that we are already destined to ascend to Heaven or burn in Hell, can we move through life making truly free decisions? Or must we always be seen as puppets of fate? Was Adam responsible for the fall? Or was this really God's plan? What then is the idea of ​​"original sin"? Shouldn't we celebrate Adam as a hero for having freed man from the state of unawareness in which he lived until he consumed the sacred pomegranate? Recall that the very first line after Adam and Eve's sin is "And they saw that they were naked." This nakedness is not so much about the body (although early Christians liked to see it that way), but rather a sense of seeing, as Joseph Campbell says, "duality," the fundamental difference between man and woman, right and wrong, and, ultimately, man and god. What Adam and Eve finally see is themselves, and they see that they are not gods, and they see mortality. Then their eyes were awakened. When they had eyes in Eden they were blind, and now that they are blind before God they can see. This same idea emerges in the Oedipus Rex, which could be read as the Greek version of the Jewish story. But should God have created Adam from stronger cloth? Who is to blame for the fall? And did Adam really have free will? Could he have said "No" when Eve offered him the fruit? Most arguments about free will come from looking at the perspective view. In other words, it depends on the fact that we cannot see what is intended, so we are said to have a choice.