Wild Duck Journal 3 (comparison)

Along with the further developing motif in Wild Duck, and the very dominant one in Oedipus, a sense of human innadequacy presents itself in both. Some outside force in overpowering both stories, and the characters in them cannot escape this force on their own. One example is Jocasta, she sends her child away to try and avoid this curse but low and behold he ends up alive, and she married him. In this sense the will of the Gods completely overpowered Jocasta. In the Wild Duck for example, when Hjalmers thinks it will be best for everyone if he leaves, his daughter ends up killing herself, so that obviously wasn't the best choice either. Neither character was able to avoid their fate.