Oedipus and Antigone Test
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                 Assuming that one believes in fate, the question is asked, can you alter your fate through free will in any way. In my opinion I think that fate always finds its way into a person’s life. One way or another fate does play a roll even if the fate has changed in some way. It could be the way you find your fate, or even the bigger picture. Like in Oedipus, when his parents send him away to die, that may have altered his path because it was unexpected of his parents to try and kill him. In the end though, his fate sadly came true and he had to face what was given to him. I think that fate is what you would like to make it and you can embrace it or let it ruin your life. I don’t think that everyone’s life is sought out for them before hand, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose.
                   When they are given the hand they are dealt, they really just have to work with what they have. Like determining if I was to be a girl or boy, I have a hard time believing that’s fate. I believe more in genes and the scientific concept of the sperm that makes it to the egg wins, but some people may argue that in fact is considered fate. That may be true as well but I don’t think that fate has to do with who are parents are or where we take our first breath. I believe that those things are just simply just the facts and I don’t believe that you could have been born to any other set of parents because then you wouldn’t be who you are. They would not have the same set of genes to create you.
                    Fate plays a role in everything we do, but I do think we have some leniency with free will. I think there is always an opportunity to change your fate, but it still remains there. Some people may find that contradictory but I feel that it is the best way I can explain how I feel about fate and free will. It is always there but has room for improvement. Some things we have no control over, while others we can do something to change our fate.
  
2)
                The question of “Is it OK to lie?” is really a tough one to answer. In my opinion, people have to lie for many different reasons. In order to protect people we lie, in order to help people we lie, everyone lies no matter how hard one might try not to. Is it OK to lie? No I don’t think that it I morally right, on the other hand though without a little lie every now and then, life would be so much harder to get through. In some instants people deserve to know the truth but I believe that they should know it only if it directly affects them.
                When people cheat on their girlfriends or boyfriends, husbands or wives, I think that would be a lie that should not be kept. They deserve to know the truth because it would directly affect the decision they have about that person.  One time, a friend of mine told me she hung out with her ex boyfriend while he was still dating someone else. She wanted to tell the girl because she felt really bad about her not knowing. Her ex though, thought otherwise and didn’t want to risk losing his girlfriend. He believed that it would be in his girlfriend’s best interest to not tell her. So my friend decided he was not worth the friendship if she knew he was a liar. Other people tell lies because they think that it what you would want to hear rather than the truth. Take gossip for example, this is one of the worst forms of lying because people do it almost every day. They think they know the facts about someone so they tell other people hoping they get a reaction out of them. They think they want to heat all this bad stuff about someone when in reality most of it isn’t even true.
                I think it is super important to tell someone the straight up facts. Facts are the truth and that is what people deserve to hear. To me fiction and lying is the same thing, just as truth and facts are as well. When someone lies its wrong, only given certain circumstances is it alright to hide the truth from someone else. Sometimes the truth isn’t always the best thing, though always the right thing and it’s hard for people to get that concept. Like I said before, if it is in the person’s best interest, sometimes lying is the only option. I believe that the truth though, will always set you free form guilt. 

3)
                The Sigmund Freud’s Oedipus complex is the theory that all young boy, about 2-4 want to marry their mother and kill their father. The play came out long before the theory evolved; Freud based it off of the play that Sophocles had written.  I think to some extent there is some truth in the theory, because you see people on the news who have raped little children or they have killed their whole family. I think that has to do with them never growing out of the phases.

                I think that some of his theory is a little too much and is somewhat unbelievable. The fact that little boys want to kill their father is a little harsh. I find it hard to believe that every single little boy wants to kill his father. The other phases such as the castration phase is also a little bit out there. why would they be afraid that their penis would fall off.

                Other times I find Myself believing most of it because of all the sick people out there. The ones who are killers and rapist. It would make sense that they may have never grown out of that phase. That they continue to have hate for their family and therefore it may be a result of that person doing bad things to inocent people. Either way I think that there is some truth to his theory whether all of it may be true, or just some parts of it.

4)
               Antigone cannot bear to see her brother not have a proper burial so she decided that she will give him one even if it is against the law and has a punishment of death. She is not afraid of Creon and what he has to say. I think she gets the courage from the love she has for her brother. She does not want to see him dishonor the gods by not having a proper burial so she must do what is right for her brother, even if it means breaking the law and risking her own life.

                We have hundreads for rules that we must follow each day, in school, at home, at work, in our state. Now where we go will there not be some sort of law being assigned. At home we are obviously not alowed to do whatever we want in our house, our partents have athority over us and what we do. At school we have to follow rules, like behavior wise and citizenship wise. No cell phones or Ipods, you can not be mean to anyone in your class and absolutily never talk back to the teacher, there are consequenses. And on the road we follow law like not running a red light or friving without a license.

                 I think there are lots of rules that people break all the time. Some rules get bent and others should never be broken. For instance, killing someone is against the law, no exceptions or excuses as to why you did it. You will be punished for that because it is not a law someone can be lenient about. We bend rules that our parents or school gives us all the time. Like having a cell phone in class or and Ipod that you listen to during study. The only reason its bending and not breaking is if some teacher see and they : look the other way:. Rules that people break all the time are things like texting while driving, or driving on JOL, and if they get cough. I believe that there are some rules that are ment to be broken, some that can be bent, but other that are deffinatly not ok to cross and should never be broken.