Evan Ayers November 19, 2012 Gold 4 Creon In Sophocles’ play, Antigone, one feels fear and sympathy for Creon. He is the strong king of Thebes who rules without a bias. He cannot change the actions of Antigone that lead to many deaths in his family. He is ruined by the effects of a family curse that he cannot control. Through multiple problems of which Creon has no control, one feels sympathy and fear for him.
In Sophocles “Oedipus the king”, Oedipus was sent to mount Cithaeron as a new born baby to die after his father (King Laius) was cursed by the gods and heard of a prophecy that his son is to kill his father and marry his mother (Queen Jocasta). The Shepard in charge of this could not kill the baby so instead Oedipus is adopted. Later Oedipus hears about the prophecy, and leaves, afraid that the prophecy would come true. Along the way he gets in a fight with a man and kills him, unknowingly his father. He then solves a riddle from the Sphinx, which has been terrorizing a kingdom, and in return, the kingdom gives him their queen's hand in marriage, which is his biological mother.
I feel that everything happens in our lives for a reason; every moment, every little encounter, it all means something in the grand scheme of life. I also believe that we have control over our destiny, we have a say in what happens in our lives. Needless to say, Willy Loman and Hamlet also have control over their destiny; it is their actions that contribute to the downfall of both characters leading up to their imminent deaths. However, if we could control everything in our lives life would be perfect—sadly, we know it is not, thus we must believe that there are also outside forces that control Willy Loman and Hamlet’s fate. The reason why we do not feel sympathy for these characters is because they have harmed other innocent people through their actions.
Creon, king of Thebes, gave Eteocles a proper funeral, but forbidden anyone to give Polyneices a burial. Hence, Antigone begins. Antigone disobeys Creon and performs the burial ritual for her brother, Polyneices. Creon, enraged, sentenced Antigone to her entombment. Haimon tries to reason with his father Creon, but Creon is blinded by his own pride.
If we do what we are told, we will succeed. Some restrictions on free will are necessary to achieve a goal or purpose. We must concede our free will, for instance writing about exactly what we want to write about, in order to achieve the final goal: a good grade. This is also where Hofstadter’s marble comes into play. In a sense, I am this marble, writing my paper according to outside factors and doing what I am told to do.
Even though they were both warned about their love, they ignored those warnings. They continued to follow their love even though fate had set their destiny. Both Romeo and tried to go against fate but fate won in at the end, with both of their demises. Everyone has a destiny and nobody can avoid what has already been planned for
Oedipus uses free will, although fate molds the result of the decisions he made. Oedipus is free and completely responsible for all the events that happen to him. The fact that Oedpius’ motives for killing his father, Laius, and marrying his mother, Jocasta, were unintentional, does not take away from the nefarious nature of the crime. When he rips his eyes out, Oedipus is accepts full responsibility of his acts and knew that he must be punished for his sins. Therefore, the last act of destruction was caused by Oedipus’ free will, but his fate came about because of the nature equivalent exchange – one must give in order to
A person with so much power will go to extremes to achieve or maintain it. A tragic hero is Aristotle’s view on a great or virtuous character that has a major flaw which leads to a downfall or suffering. Macbeth kills King Duncan in order to take his place after being named Thane of Cawdor because of his flaw of being too easily persuaded. In the beginning of the play Macbeth was a great man respected by all the people of Scotland. He is given hope by the supernatural giving him the dream of once becoming King of Scotland.
He proposes they repel the numerically superior Persians by using the terrain of Thermopylae (the Hot Gates) and funnel the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea. The Ephors consult the Oracle, who decrees that Sparta must not go to war during their religious festival Carnea. As Leonidas departs, two agents of Xerxes appear—one of them, Theron, is a Spartan—who bribe the Ephors with concubines and money. Leonidas follows his plan anyway, setting out with only 300
Student: Course: Instructor: Date: Determinism vs. Free Will Philosophers have argued over the issue of mankind’s freedom, ever since the beginning of time, Some such as Holbech argue as he did in his work “Are We Cogs in the Universe,” that mans fate has always been pre-determined. While others like Kane argue as he did in his work,” The Significance of Free Will” that man is free to make his own choices but is affected by past decisions. I have taken the works of Holbach an Kane and I will discuss them here to a small extent while, trying to give my own honest opinion on their different stands on of Free Will. Holbech, like many early philosophers believed that mans fate is already pre-determined. He argued on many occasions “that man like nature is under the same immutable law as the universe and all that is within her.” In following his thought pattern this would suggest that if a tree falls in the woods that it did not fall of its own accorded, but was chopped down by a logger; in continuing this though did the logger chose that tree or was his chose predestined.