Oedipus Rex

In the story Oedipus Rex what I feel that you learned that you can not run away from your problems. It is simple as this no matter what we believe if something is meant to be it is meant to be. Like for example lets say in a car accident someone passes away  and you say that if they were not driving at that point of time it would not have happened. In this story though it was taken to the extreme about the fate of all the main characters from Oedipus, to his mother and wife, and last his father.  Because in the story Oedipus`s father is told that his son will kill him and marry his wife whose also his own mother,  and in an attempt to make the prophecy not become true they take baby Oedipus to the woods and tie his feet together making him even more vulnerable to the environment, but he is found and saved.  Also, when Oedipus found out about the prophecy he left his new home so that way it would not come true but the people that raised him were not his real parents so the prophecy would not have became true maybe if he was not told about it. Another thing that is learned but taken out of proportion in this story is to not make fun of or mistreat anyone that  has a disability or in turn you can get the same one that they have.  This story also teaches you that sometimes when you try to fix a problem the solution to fixing the problem is getting rid of yourself because you are the culprit of the problem.  Oedipus`s city was having a plague because the killer of their was living with them but little did he know he was the killer.