His soul tried to escape the oppression of this cosmic mechanism, and to leave the slavery of Ananke. |
Shakespeare settles his playgoers, and also enhances the fatality of the plot, giving it something of the tense, unalterable ananke of the Greek myths. |
Still it is with some such definite decision that he enters the kingdom of Ananke, the goddess of Necessity. |
As I have shared with other students, in classical Greek, ananke means destiny. |
This divinity is sometimes identified with Tyche, sometimes with Ananke. |