Free Destiny vs. Controlled Fate in Antigone Essay

Fate is an old debated concept. Do ones actions truly play a role in determining ones life? Is fate freedom to some or is it binding to others, in that no individual can make completely individual decisions, and therefore, no one is truly free. Nowadays, fate is a subject often rejected in society, as it is seen as too big, too idealistic, and too hard to wrap a persons head around. However, at the time of Antigone, the concept was a terrifying reality for most people. Fate is the will of the gods, and as is apparent in Antigone, the gods will is not to be questioned. Much of Sophocles work focuses on the struggle between human law and what is believed to be the god’s law. Fate was an unstoppable force and it was assumed that any†¦show more content†¦At some time she thought she must have been wrong, otherwise she would not of have hanged herself if she truly believed the gods were on her side. Antigone’s fate as it seems was unstoppable death. Most people thin k she herself changed her fate, from being killed by lack of food that Creon supplied to her, to taking her life into her hands and committed suicide. It still was the same fate, the way in which Antigone met her fate is the only difference. The curse didnt elude Creon either, despite his royalty. Consider the irony in the following passage: â€Å"CREON. You’ll never marry her while she lives. HAIMON. Then she must die. But her death will cause another. CREON. Another? Have you lost your senses? Is this an open threat?† (3.118-121)The gods must have robbed him of his common sense, because Haimon was trying to tell his father that he would commit suicide if he killed Antigone. Creon would not listen. He put his family on the backburner and forever burdened one of his dead nephews and Antigone, all because of his pride and his greed for power. That pride and hotheadedness turned into a big problem, as he would have preferred to, â€Å"End his life and die than live with the agony of his mistakes† (Exodos134-138). In Creon case his fate was caused again and again crossing the line between laws set by the gods and the laws set by man. Despite whom readers of Sophocles Antigone