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Oedipus and Antigone.
Title: Oedipus and Antigone.
Category: Literature / Mythology
Details: Words: 1085 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Oedipus and Antigone.
Simply Fate
Everyone likes to believe that they have control of their lives, but does one really and if not, does one have the power to change fate? In the plays, Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles, Oedipus, king of Thebs, tries to avoid his fate of killing his father and marrying his mother, but fate cannot be altered. Oedipus fathers Antigone, Ismene, Polynices, and Eteocles with his mother Jocasta unknowingly, after killing his …showed first 75 words of 1085 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1085 total…do what she knows is right. She buries her brother knowing that she is risking her life. She follows what has been planned for her by the gods. Whether or not you follow the plan or try to resist the plan, there is no altering the plan. They are destined to fulfill the gods' wishes even though it destroys them. Oedipus, Antigone and Creon have no free choice in the events that affect their lives.
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