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  • Essay / Defying Fate - 649

    Each competitor expects a tough fight from their enemy. The world is full of challenges and competitions, if one does not move forward, he will be crushed from behind. A quote from Bernice Johnson Reagon: “Life's challenges are not meant to paralyze you; they are meant to help you discover who you are. This quote means that one should never be afraid to face challenges, because challenges are a part of life. There are many books written about the challenges that characters face and how they end up not coping with them. In the novel “Antigone” by Sophocles, there is a character named Creon who faces many challenges in the play and confronts some, but was not successful. able to control it and finds himself in tragedy. Creon is one of the main characters of the play; he takes over the kingdom after the king's two sons die in war against each other. One of the brothers fought for the nation and the other against it. So Creon declared that one of them would get the burial of an honorable soldier and the other would not be buried. Antigone, their sister, could not tolerate this, tried to bury him but was unable to do so....