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 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.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.