Pease help me with three questions at the end. Thanks a lot!Sophocles: “The Miracle of Man”RELIGION & PHILOSOPHYIN ANTIGONE, Sophocles presents a thoughtful analysis of the painful dilemmas in human existence. In one outstanding passage, the chorus expresses an exalted message on human resourcefulness and the achievements of human beings.Sophocles, AntigoneIs there anything more wonderful on earth,Our marvelous planet,Than the miracle of man!With what arrogant easeHe rides the dangerous seas,From the waves’ towering summitTo the yawning trough beneath.The earth mother herself, before time began,The oldest of the ageless gods,Learned to endure his driving plough,Turning the earth and breaking the clodsTill by the sweat of his browShe yielded up her fruitfulness….He has mastered the mysteries of language:And thought, which moves faster than the wind,He has tamed, and made rational.Political wisdom too, all the knowledgeOf people and States, all the practicalArts of government he has studied and refined,Built cities to shelter his headAgainst rain and anger and coldAnd ordered all things in his mind.There is no problem he cannot resolveBy the exercise of his brains or his breath,And the only disease he cannot salveOr cure, is death.In action he is subtle beyond imagination,Limitless is his skill, and these giftsAre both enemies and friends,As he applies them, with equal determination,To good or evil ends.All men honor, and the State upliftsThat man to the heights of glory, whose powersUphold the constitution, and the gods, and their laws.His city prospers. But if he shiftsHis ground, and takes the wrong path,Despising morality, and blown up with pride,Indulges himself and his power, at my hearthMay he never warm himself, or sit at my side.Source: From Sophocles, Antigone, trans. Don Taylor (London: Methuen, 2006), pp. 17-18.Doric, Ionic,Question1 : What are the limitations to these human accomplishments? Any other limitations besides death? Question2: Do you think Sophocles is correct in his assessment of human accomplishment?Question 3: Do you think Sophocles is correct in his assessment of human accomplishment?

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