From the times of the Greeks, people believed that events were predetermined by a higher power. Both individuals and everything in general follow a path called fate and they cannot escape it under any circumstances. A good example of this is in the Final Destination movies but it is in some way different because the people in the movies actually cheat death. The people from in the movies escaped death because of a premonition seen by one of them. Then throughout the movies, they try to cheat death by escaping, knives flying at them, buildings exploding, and lightning strikes but eventually death catches up with them and they eventually die like fate had decided for them.

In the play Antigone two brothers suffer a horrible fate in which they end up killing each other for their father’s throne. One of the brothers gets buried and the other is left on the ground to rot and be eaten by animals as set by the new king, Creon. His pride determines his fate. Not willing to have pity for his own nephew, he is set to be punished later in the play when both his wife and his son die.

Antigone, the sister of the two brothers is unable to cope with the fact that one of her brothers is left to rot so she set out to illegally bury her brother. Her love for her brother is the force that ends up locking in her fate for the act of defying the laws set by the new king Creon. “It would be fine to die
while doing that. I’ll lie there with him, with a man I love, pure and innocent, for all my crime. My honours for the dead
must last much longer than for those up here.” She choses to bury her brother and her fate was set for her to be killed and even though, Creon was not the one to kill her, she still ends up dyeing from stabbing herself in the end.

In the end, Antigone shows us that fate is set by our actions much like karma. One who does bad will in turn pay for their wrong doings.