SUBTOPIC C:
In ancient Greece, they believed that everything that happened to them was determined by the Gods. Sometimes things that happened were seen as punishment or reward from the Gods, but other times events were simply the destiny that had been determined by the Gods and there was nothing that could be done about it.
Fate is something that affects people of all kinds. Even tragic heroes have to deal with fate.
In Oedipus the King, the main character, Oedipus, runs away from his destiny and becomes a tragic hero. The conflict occurs when Oedipus learns from the Delphic oracle that his destiny is to kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus does not want this to happen, so he leaves Corinth to avoid his destiny. But ironically it is when he on his journey from Laius that he meets Laius, his biological father and kills him. The beliefs of the ancient Greeks are that changing of fate is dangerous and all fates were predetermined. Learning the full truth, he blinds himself over the dead body of Jocasta, his wife and his mother. He accepted total responsibility for what he did and determined to take the punishment of exile.
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Antigone accepts her fate from the very beginning and follows it through to the end.
When Creon confronts Antigone about burying Polyneices, she tells Creon that she disobeyed him: “It was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such laws” (sciene II, 60) Antigone continues to insist that following her fate is not a sad occasion. She says to Ismene: “You are alive, but I belong to Death” (scene II, 140-150). Antigone has fully accepted her fate and is happy to follow the life that the Gods had