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Fate versus free will is a dominant theme of Sophocles’s Antigone. Although Antigone makes a conscious choice to risk her life by burying her brother, Sophocles hints that her life is the result of a predetermined destiny shaped by her family’s past. Which line in this excerpt from Antigone reflects Antigone’s helplessness with regard to her fate and her family’s past?

ANTIGONE:
Alack, alack! Ye mock me. Is it meet
Thus to insult me living, to my face?
Cease, by our country's altars I entreat,
Ye lordly rulers of a lordly race.
O fount of Dirce, wood-embowered plain
Where Theban chariots to victory speed,
Mark ye the cruel laws that now have wrought my bane,
The friends who show no pity in my need!
O monstrous doom,
Within a rock-built prison sepulchered,
To fade and wither in a living tomb,
And alien midst the living and the dead.

CHORUS:
In thy boldness over-rash
Madly thou thy foot didst dash
'Gainst high Justice' altar stair.
Thou a father's guild dost bear.

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Answer:

the last line makes the most sense thou fathers guilt dost bear

Explanation:

"Antigone" written by Sophocles is a tragedy that revolves around the life of Antigone.

From the given excerpt, the line that reflects that Antigone was helpless because of her fate and the past of her family is:

"Thou a father's guild dost bear."

Antigone promises to give the last rites of her brother after his death. Her brother, Polynices was declared as traitor by Creon. The attempt of burring her brother was considered as disregarding and disrespecting the law of the ruler. Antigone accepted her act of giving the last rites and disobey. She gave the argument that this act was morally correct as she had to abide by the responsibilities given to her from her forefathers.

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