Abstract
Although humans have always been described as free moral agents, history is deplete with events and circumstances which challenge such notion. Whether we believe it or not, there are forces which tend to challenge the oracular truth and human freedom. Unlike Odewale in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not to Blame, Odosun in Fred Abgeyegbe’s The King Must Dance deliberately dares the oracle to save her twin daughter who is to be sacrificed to avert the catastrophic consequences of becoming a female king. However, the oracular truth comes to pass as the land suffers famine, pestilences and rural urban rift when the twin girl grows up to be become King Omajuwa 10th.