Question

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?

Answer 1

The line from the excerpt from Antigone that reflect her helplessness with regard to her fate and her family's past would be : 
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

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Answer 2

Answer:

the line from the excerpt from Antigone that reflect her helplessness with regard to her fate and her family's past would be : 

Explanation:

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