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.