What is the difference between fate and Fate?

Question

aside from capitalization of course.

this is something literary...something to do with how the greeks viewed the course of their lives and how we see it now.

Answer 1

"Fate" is a personification of "fate," which is just another word for destiny. Bygone writers liked to personify everything - ex. Fate, Love, Time, Death, etc.

Answer 2

Nothing really much in the difference, all lives end in tragedy, that is our fate.

Answer 3

The Moirai were Greek goddesses who controlled life, both for mortals and the gods.  Clotho spun the thread of life, Lachesis randomly decided the amount of good or ill that befell a person, and Atropos cut the the thread, determining the time of death.

Their Roman counterparts, the Parcae (also known as the Fatae, from where we get the term 'Fates'), were Nona (the Spinner), Decima, (the Measurer), and Morta (the Cutter).  It was Morta who determined not only when but how one died.

In Germanic culture, there were many feminine deities called, collectively, the Norns, who determined what would happen to humans.  As you can see, the Germanic peoples didn't limit them to only three, as did the Greeks and Romans.  

Since the various terms are all personifications, they're considered proper nouns.

When not capitalized, 'fate' usually refers to the randomness of the events in any given life.  'Luck' and 'chance' would be synonyms.