Some may not disagree with this, but your fate has already been determined that you will read this paper at this exact moment. For those people who don't believe that fate is real they should read Antigone, it is a perfect example of fate. Fate has always been a prominate subject along with tragedy and comedy in Greek literature. Sophocles, the author of Antigone, is the most note able author of fate and destiny. I think that everything is determined long before it happens and that all of our actions have been mapped and planned before we even have thought of doing them. .
Can we do anything we chose or is the universe's fate fixed? The answers to these questions we may never know. In Antigone, Creon is faced with a decision. Should he kill Antigone or should he let her get away with burying her brother, which is a crime, "This girl is guilty of a double insolence, breaking the given laws and boasting of it. Who is the man here, she or I, if this crime goes unpunished"(503). He feels as if he has a choice between the two. But, he doesn't. It was determined that he would put Antigone in a cave and try to get her out, only to find her dead. No matter what he did, he could not have avoided this. He had the choice between the two, but it was determined that no matter what advice he received from Haimon and Teiresias, he would inevitably choose to put her in the cave. As Oedipus showed us, you cannot escape fate no matter how you try. .
If you go back and find out you should have turned left when you turned right and change it, then you may think you have defied fate. You are wrong, most likely, like Oedipus, you will do exactly what was determined, and step right into fate. Doing this will just farther prove your pre-determined destiny. If Oedipus had gone forward in time and seen what he had done, he would have tried to avoid that fate. By doing this he would have stepped right into his fate.
