Essays on Manifest Destiny Page 2

As Guy Gavriel Kay once said, “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” The idea of destiny is controversial because some argue that it controls people and affects lives, while others say one chooses their own destiny. Two examples of texts that are highly based around…

The existence of fate is a topic that has been heavily debated for many years. Is someone’s destiny really predetermined? Or is life just a series of coincidences and butterfly effects? In Virgil’s epic, The Aeneid, we follow the Trojan hero, Aeneas, through a difficult journey in an attempt to fulfill his god-given destiny. A…