The first ode in Sophocles' "Antigone" contains analogies that represent the paradoxical relationship between fate and free-will. The relationship that these two ideas have can be interpreted differently; yet, it is always possible to say that it is your fate to believe in free-will and go against your fate.
             One of the more evident phrases/verses clearly shows how the amalgamation of the two can be formed; the chorus recites, "the stormy gray area," in the ode, the word "gray" is used in a metaphorical manner. Meaning something is not all white and not all black, but gray, a mixture of truth and deceit or fate and free-will; not one or the other, but a little bit of the two. This idea is more coherent than to just believe in one of the beliefs, which leaves parts of life unexplainable. It "yields to his prows," means that he/(man) can go through anything when he is strong enough. I t says free-will wins when it is strong enough, and it is human greatness that decides what one's fate is, not the Gods or any other foreign force but the person, the soul within you that tells you what, when, and how to do it is you do. The "earth ... is graven;...the plows with shining furrows where his plows have gone year after year" metaphorically means that we all end up the same, dead, buried in a grave by humans, it is our fate and not free-will. Fate is bad here because we end up dead, nonexistent to the world as a physical entity; but, if we are lucky, (luck, another fate and free-will topic) some people will remember us when we die. Free-will, as well as fate, only goes so far. For example, someone could want to live forever, but it is not likely for their body to last forever. If someone wants to walk on the ceiling or the wall, they cannot because they cannot defy the law of physics. Gravity is the force that eventually brings the person down back to reality and fate. If someone wants to become rich or get something be...