Provide a 3 pages analysis while answering the following question: Free Will and Fate: Oedipus the Kin by Sophocles and The Odyssey by Homer. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. What sense would living be, if one is predestined to be what he/she loathes to be and is helpless to change that? Look at Life is surely a tough journey but it is this toughness that makes us human, that makes us who we want us to be. Without making our own choices this would never be possible. Without making our own choices, we can never achieve our being. . While it is true that many things that happen around a man to which he/she reacts are something that he/she could hardly control, the end-result still depends on how a man reacts. In fact, the story of Oedipus is a tale of how he tried to escape his fate (Eliot 288). Similarly, the myth of Odyssey affirms that life is one’s own responsibility. These two myths consistently show that although the gods decide on man’s destiny, in the end, it is the man who makes his/her own choices to whether or not he/she will succumb to his/her fate. As Kito notes the gods could be seen as those aspects and conditions in man’s life that has to be accepted because they are beyond man’s control (qt. in Carel 103). For example, in Homer’s Odyssey, the protagonist Odysseus showed in various circumstances that it was the course of actions that he chose to take that mattered. For example, when the gods held Odysseus captive for eight years and later decided to free him to go home, Odysseus still has to decide on Calypso’s offer: to live an immortal but to remain there or be free to go home but remain a mortal.