Sophocles
The first ode in Sophocles' "Antigone" contains analogies that represent the paradoxical relationship between fate and free-will. The relationship that these two ideas have can be interpreted differently; yet, it is always possible to say that it is your fate to believe in free-will and go against your fate. One of the more evident phrases/verses clearly shows how the amalgamation of the two can be formed; the chorus recites, "the stormy gray area," in the ode, the word "gray" is used in a metaphorical manner. Meaning something is not all white and not all black, but gray, a mixture of truth and deceit or fate and free-will; not one or the other, but a little bit of the two. This idea is more coherent than to just believe in one of the beliefs, which leaves parts of life unexplainable. It "yields to his prows," means that he/(man) can go through anything when he is strong enough. I t says free-will wins when it is strong enough, and it is human greatness that decides what one's fate is, not the Gods or any other foreign force but the person, the soul within you that tells you what, when, and how to do it is you do. The "earth ... is graven;...the pl
Fate is what declares what you will or will not be, do or will not do; think or will not think. There is a significant amount of evidence in the chorus to suggest and prove that fate is what determines our existence and importance of existence. "O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure!" gives the impression that free-will is the ultimate and all powerful choice and form of living, but it cannot be 100% free-will, as stated above, since one of man's fates is to die, perish and not exist in the human form. Not even Methuselah could escape this fate. Some may argue that they can exist in a different form, even after biological death, such as Picasso through his paintings and Einstein through his theories and intelligence. The ideas of fate and free-will will forever be an eternal paradox, until there can be no fate or no free-will. ows with shining furrows where his plows have gone year after year" metaphorically means that we all end up the same, dead, buried in a grave by humans, it is our fate and not free-will. Fate is bad here because we end up dead, nonexistent to the world as a physical entity; but, if we are lucky, (luck, another fate and
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Approximate Word count = 781
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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