Essays on Destiny

Thomas Hardy wrote this novel in the end of the last decade of the nineteenth century. This novel is remarkable like all the other Hardy’s novels for the tragic vision it indicates; there is a story which ends in a tragic manner. In so far as Hardy is concerned, he writes tragedy of fate which…

In the ‘not-to-distant future’, the world of Gattaca is where genetic engineering has become the normal approach to procreation. Gattaca’s society involves a culture of self-advancement through genetic determinisms, a caste system of valid and in-valids and social discrimination based on ‘genoism’. This sterile and cold society of elitist collaborations like Gattaca promotes competition, isolation…

At one time in our lives there is a moment that we may think of ourselves as better than someone or something else. There may also be a point when making a decision leads to a great error in judgment. In the play Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, both of these characteristics can be seen…

William Shakespeare’s tragic play, “Romeo and Juliet”, was written in 1597. This tragedy is based on the passion of love, including images of fate and death. – Elizabethans strongly believed that fate controlled their lives and everything was planned out. Most people believed that the power of the stars could foretell the future. In the…

Do you believe in fate? Believing in fate does not contradict with any religious belief. It simply means people accept the fact that their power in making changes in their own lives is limited. On the other hand, some believe in themselves. There is an old Chinese saying: man can conquer nature. Some people think…

Question 1 Pico’s Oration on the Dignity of Man and Alberti’s Book of the Family both carries important statements on self-determination because both concluded that   man has the ability to carve out his own destiny. Pico points out that man is put in a position wherein he can choose to go lower or higher in…

The last lines of the poem such as “a dangerous idea that almost makes sense” is referring to the person who the song relates to thinking about committing suicide. This song goes along with one of the themes of The story of Romeo and Juliet in two different ways, one of the ways is because…

Manifest Destiny first came about in the United States in the mid-1800s, and was based off of an idea that Americans specifically had the right to expand with absolute no limit as far as country or area. Americans used Manifest Destiny as a defense for United States territorial expansion, and this right had supposedly been…

Fate is “the will or principle or determining cause by which things… are believed to come to be as they are or events to happen as they do” (Merriam-Webster.com). Fate is a prevalent theme throughout the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. Fate helped Santiago on the journey to self-discovery and the fulfillment of his…

In the movie, The Adjustment Bureau, based on the book by Philip K. Dick, two strangers find themselves drawn together by the will of the universe. Others may refer to that as simple fate. I was surprised and then won over by The Adjustment Bureau, with its deep themes about our existence, free will and…