What goes around, comes around

The Role of Fate: What goes around…comes around. There are people who don’t believe in fate and there are some who believe their lives are strongly based upon it. In Antigone, it was said that the house of Thebes has been cursed. Tirisius, the oracle told King Laius that his son would kill him. Oedipus, his son eventually did kill him and married to the king’s wife, oblivious to the fact that she was his mother. They had four kids, out of which Antigone was one of them. Creon was the queen’s brother, who was crowned as the king after Oedipus. The myth continues, and things change. Antigone commits suicide, and Haemon, Creon’s son, commits suicide as well. He was Antigon’s husband to be, and killed himself from the grief of his lover dying. Creon’s wife, latter, kills herself, “The burden…closing her eyes” (Antigone 1.5.99-117). It was Creon’s fate to suffer and end up living a dreadful life. His stubbornness, and arrogance and caused three lives, “when we were….of the dead” (Antigone 1.5.44-76). It was pitiful; Haemon, Antigone and Eurydice dying. Antigone had paid for her stubbornness, and for her father’s, and brother’s mistakes. It was Thebes’s fate to break apart. Thebes paid for such ruler and a cowardly audience. It was karma that brought Creon’s pride to an end. Antigone had once said, “O tomb…equal my own” (Antigone 1.4. 58-70). Here Antigone had asked for an equal punishment for Creon, only if she was right to stand up for the right thing. And again, there is something in return for every action. Good for good and bad for bad. I believe in fate, in karma. Every time I do something from the goodness of my heart, I believe that there is something in return for that. This something that many writers, and film producers use to gain sympathy out of their audiences towards their characters. Ex, if something bad happens to the protagonist, the audience would cry, and if the vilen dies, it brings some sort of a satisfaction. I’ve always wondered why is that we expect, and why is that things happen. Just the way they do…