Fate

What’s your Fate?

When it comes to fate there are two types of people, those who believe in it and those who don’t. The people who don’t believe in it often don’t because they don’t like to think that they don’t have control over there life, when in all reality they do have control. For example, we are all going to die, there is no changing that, but we can sometimes change when, or how we die. To help explain myself I’m going to look at the role of fate in Sophocles’ play, Antigone.
In this play every character is given a determined fate, but they are also given several choices that they can make as individuals. By making those choices they’re determining their destiny. When they determine their destiny there are consequences that they must live with, sometimes they are good and sometimes they are bad. In Antigone the role of fate comes into play when Teresias foresees the death of Haeman in his speech to Creon. Teresias says, “You shall have...