You're not free, you are fated,

It's not ennobling in any way,

To be tragic, in a Greek sense, you have to have a choice, ... And you make the wrong choice. It's a flawed person caught in a bad situation. The protagonist realizes he's done something wrong and is willing to take the consequences. The attitude is, I'll take whatever fate has decreed.

It was I,' and that's a real man.

In Greek tragedy, you can't go down crying,

There's no free will here. Oedipus acts out the script. How can we blame him?