The Importance Of Fate In Ancient Greek Fate

With so many choices in everyday life, it just seems natural for everyone to believe that choices aren 't already determined. With so many choices from very simple to the most complex, it seems strange to think that all the choices have been made, that are made, and will be made are already done. It’s more acceptable to believe that the choices you make, you have control over them, but this free will over choices is merely an illusion. Fate shouldn 't be regarded with just God or the ancient Greek gods, but also with our brain and the progress of time. Fate also shouldn 't be thought of as the whole life being directed, but how the choices were already influenced by previous factors that normal humans don 't have any control over. Greek mythology

A child can’t choose his parents, he can’t choose if he is born in the United States or in China, or if he 's born in a rich family or in a poor family. Not having any choices is an example why free will doesn 't exist and why fate is definitely present. In Greek myth, the gods/goddesses also have control over the fate of many different people. For instance, in the doomed House of Cadmus many of the children do not have any control of their fate because of what the previous generation of family members did. The children couldn 't change their fate and were born into the family that was already doomed. It wasn 't their free will to join the family rather just their families fate which is apparent with Oedipus. Oedipus is doomed by fate and was said to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Oedipus’ father was also under a doomed fate in which is son would kill him. He tried to escape his doom by abandoning his child out in the wilderness and hoping he would die (Oedipus the King). Obviously this didn 't happen and the father met his doom when Oedipus killed him at the crossroads. Another example is with Oedipus’ daughter Antigone. She was unluckily born into this family and eventually met her fate also by killing herself with a sword

Whether it’s one second or one century, time will still be moving forward the same as it was earlier. You might not be here, there might not be any humans here, but there were still be something there as time moves forward. Having a future also proves that fate exist because if there is a future, then the choices that are made in the present have a place in time and will eventually be made in the