Whether you like it or not, you make choices all day everyday. For instance, at this very moment you have chosen to take time out of your day to read this blog post. Some might say that you were destined to read this blog post, but no, ultimately a choice was made that in turn made you read it. As human beings we have the wonderful gift of free will to live our lives. If people became successful by just doing nothing and “waiting on fate” to take action, there would be no point to having free will. Without choice and free will people would be less inclined to try new things like cure cancer, invent teleportation, or make music. Those of course are just examples.
Looking at Oedipus as a story character, no, of course he has no say in what happens to him. His fate has been predetermined by Sophocles. Oedipus, if he was a real person, could have chosen to or not to kill his father and marry his mother. He made the conches choice to do these things, kind of. He was, in a way, tricked into doing these things by his curse. This is a textbook case of irony; he tried to run away but failed, and in his choice to run away from destiny he doomed himself to actually do these things
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