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This is my blog that I've had since high school.

The Pact

In Jodi Picoult's case, destiny was over turned. When cowards choose to take their life in their own hands to end it, that is when the equilibrium of life is overturned and fate is comprimsed. There is no fate in suicide...only a person who is so afraid of their future that his/her life is ended.

Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist

In Portrait, it was Stephen who Stephen was most afraid of. It was his sexuality and vocational calling and artistic abilities that isolated himself from others in an Irish world where familial connections and friends are the main part of existance no matter the age. However, though Stephen was most afraid of himself, it was that fear to discover that drove him in life. It was that fear of his obsession with words and the questions about God that pushed him to leave Ireland, to turn down the preisthood and to find poetry in words such as fetus.

While man is his toughest critic, it is the fear of oneself that pushed him to move forward with his dreams, ambitions, talents, and goals. And in the process, he's lucky to find himself, much like Stephen and escape the chains that hinder his growth.

Crime and Punishment

In Doestoeksvy's Crime and Punishment, Rask. questions his destiny and it's role in the murder he committed. Everything ties in. Is Sonya a coincidence or rather someone placed in his life for a higher purpose to become closer to his faith? Is walking into Svid. den an accident or was the path a one track railroad on which he was the powerless train?

Big Question

Can a person ever escape their destiny?

What drives man in life?

What is man most afraid of?

King Henry IV Part 1

What was Prince Hal's fate? To become the shinning lining of the dark storm clouds? As readers, we knew his background and we knew his future. And he did too. His soliloquoy about becoming the prince, the person he knew he would have to be. But there is a difference between having to do something and wanting to do something. He had to become kingly but he did it because it came to him. He wanted to. And Falstaff's fate? To become a drunken?

It seems to me that Hal escaped his fate. He turned away from Falstaff to become virtous. But at the same time, was that his fate all along?

Oedipus

Our discussion of fate has really got me thinking lately and I find myself asking if every event that takes place in my life is already scripted out for me.

And so, can a person ever escape their destiny?

As for Oedipus, he doesn't appear as if he does. But underneath it all, he finally figures out who he is and where his roots are embedded. In this way, has he escaped fate? While he's now blind, he's not dead. It is possible for him continue. That fated event doesn't have to be the end of him...