Antigone Fate Vs Free Will

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Few, if any, have the faculty to successfully thwart fate. Fate is all encompassing, the most powerful force in all of human media. It preys upon a character’s weakness while simultaneously being the cause of a character's weakness. Creon, with his boundless confidence and cumbersome ego, is exemplary of a character who attempts to scorn fate, whether that fate be doled out by god or curse. His attempts, are in vain due to the actions and words of Antigone, who is the catalyst to Creon’s eventual downfall. Through delegitimizing Creon’s political power and revealing his fatal flaw of excessive pride, Antigone acts to use her tumultuous fate to take Creon down with her.
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This is the motivation behind Creon’s attempt to best fate. His application of copious amounts of pride is his main defense against fate, as he the same “stubborn, self willed person” (Sophocles 430) he incriminates Antigone of being. Creon wholeheartedly believes he can triumph over his impending doom through sheer will power and control in every facet of his life. He posits to Haemon that “the law one should live by is to obey their father’s will” (Sophocles 581). He accuses Tiresias of “look[ing] for profit” (Sophocles 989). Creon had become paranoid at every step that anyone or anything he faces has come to cause his ruin, desperate for any chance to escape the fate he, in his perception, has created for himself. In his attempt to free Antigone, he accepts that “no one can stand against the blows of fate” (Sophocles 1037). Ever since he had adjudicated Antigone’s punishment, Creon’s life had become fixated on avoiding the prophetic fallout of his actions, motivating him free her. Nevertheless, Antigone knew she would “not suffer and ignoble death” (Sophocles 96). In detail, this line is easy to overlook. It has the appearance of being the innocuous ramblings, but in reality the chorus reveals Antigone is in the right as “Zeus abhors a proud tongue’s boasting” (Sophocles 134). Creon, due to his ego and pride, has angered
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