In the tragedy, "Oedipus the King," Oedipus and his parents made mistakes that lead them to peripeteia. After learning that their future will be filled with sadness, they were not willing to accept it and instead decided to try and change it. Sophocles’ tragedy implicitly illustrates how difficult it is to change one’s fate. Regardless of the precautions taken to avoid it, the final result remains the same, since one’s fate has already been predetermined. Oedipus’ parents begin the tragedy by making the first mistake. When Apollo’s servant tells them that their son will kill the father, marry the mother, and have children with her, they try to prevent this from happening. They send their 3-month-old Oedipus away, and pierce his ankles (710-725). This shows how the parents tried to rewrite fate by getting rid of Oedipus. Sophocles is trying to show that one should not attempt to know one's future, because it causes one to try and change one's fate, which leads to future peripeteia due to them no longer expecting that result. Oedipus makes the second mistake. By believing that Polybus is his father, and by knowing his fate, he tries to protect them by leaving Corinth and never returning until Polybus and Merope pass away (771-830). However, Oedipus unknowingly kills his real father in a moment of hot-temperedness. Oedipus then becomes the king of Thebes, and marries Jocasta, who is actually his biological mother. Despite Oedipus believing that he has escaped fate, he has still unknowingly married his biological mother, and this shows how fate always prevails. No matter what path one chooses to take, although the steps are different, fate causes one to end up in the same destination. These mistakes lead to the peripeteia in Oedipus’ life: he goes from being the King of Thebes to all of a sudden losing everything after learning that Jocasta is his biological mother. However, he still needs to obey the oath that he made to