... 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, ... 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 ... . You cannot...

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... information that can potentially prevent downfall, and the hero's ability to either act upon or reject this new information constitutes blame for their fall. In Jean Anouilh's Antigone, Creon makes a final plea to convince Antigone that dying for her brother Polynices is foolish, making sure she is aware of the "squalid story " she is about to put her "little bloodstained name to ... "" (41). Once it is revealed that she would be dying for a traitor, Antigone still refuses to be saved, proclaiming "I've chosen death"" (48), proving that her previous ignorance of the situation was not the...

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