Heroes and Anti-Heroes

Were the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, fate? To invoke the concept of fate or to have a fatalistic vision of experience is, simply put, to claim that the most important forces which create, shape, guide, reward, and afflict human life are out of human control. Is this true?

In most of the readings thus far fate has played an integral part. Do we, as humans, living on this earth really have control of our lives or the lives of those around us?

In Sophocles’ play, as in other works we have read thus far, we encounter an obviously important notion, the role played by fate or the fates. The emphasis placed on these words (and personalities) gives the stories a vision of life which one could call a fatalistic quality. Another interesting factor is that these works also allude to the fact that something or someone is in control and because of this the universe does not operate by chance. In othe

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In other words, the ways we attack our fate or our lives is our own free choice.

We, in the United States, almost have adopted the mind set that we can control our own fate.

If one believes in fate it would not be unusual to provide some way of referring to or picturing these “fatal forces. In other words he has freely chosen to try and live a life in which what he has been told will happen, will not happen. One could call it chance but if we assume that that chance rules all things, then we are claiming that there is little we can do to control our fate and our lives. , before he chooses to accept his fate, return to Uruk, and live his life in the full and free acceptance of how the world operates. He hasn’t done anything wrong to merit the outcome. He spent much of his life moving around in order to avoid his fate. He was very successful as far as he was concerned. He punishes those who break faith, but He does not determine their belief; they are free not to believe. He actually believed that he was a human who thwarted his own fate. It takes severe natural disasters or new outbreaks of lethal epidemics or the terror of the New York World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, to really begin to question ourselves, “Are we really in control of our own fate?”

. It seems to state that even the best of men and one who strives to live the best possible life, and finds out the truth of who he really is and what his life really amounts to will be horrified to learn the truth. Although everything moving up to the end was freely initiated and kept throughout by himself.

The vision of fate in Oedipus is very mysterious and cruel.

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