Category: Fate

Located in Torontos Royal Ontario Museum is a Buddhist figural sculpture titled Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara). The sculpture is on display in a room filled with Buddhist relics which have survived from Chinas past. Guanyin, a bodhisattva (Buddha to be) is displayed next to Dashizhi, another bodhisattva type which shares the same wood carving and polychrome composition…

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald is a complex novel pertaining the main characters complicated journey home from Troy to his throne in Ithika. The Greek gods play a big part in his long 10-year journey back home. Are they to blame for the difficult times Odysseus had to endure? It is…

There was once a merchant in the famous market at Baghdad. One day he saw a stranger looking at him in surprise, and he knew that the stranger was Death. Pale and trembling, the merchant fled the marketplace and made his way many-many miles to the city of Samarra. For there he was sure that…

Are human beings in control of their fate? The story of Oedipus shows that it is not. Oedipus did try to escape his fate a lot of times, but couldnt because no matter how much you try to run from your fate, you just cannot escape it anyway, what is meant to be, will always…

Cassandra demonstrates the tragedies that may happen to a woman who is in marriage during Greek times, as she has done it numerous times during her life and was punished for them. A profit gifted with the power to see in the future, but cursed with no one believing her, she has been punished by…

From the very beginning, lovers are referred to as the ‘star cross’, referring to an astrological belief associated with time. The stars were thought to control the fate of humanity, and as time passed, the stars would move along their course in the sky and also chart the course of human life below. Romeo talks…

My chosen texts are Bernardine Evaristos ‘The Emperors Babe’ and Aphra Behns ‘Oroonoko (The Royal Slave)’. Ultimately, the characters have no control at all, as they are figments of their authors imaginations. However, upon closely examining the texts, the two characters which I will focus on have little to no agency and gradually lose all…

The narrator has clearly seen many events and the story of each event is told throughout the novel. The story starts off bearing true faith that it is true, because she has either seen the events unfold or have been told firsthand by the involved characters. The way in which this novel is written gives…

What are the Odds? What happens when coincidences occur that seem too incredible to be true? Coincidences are defined as, a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. These coincidences are considered to be random and meaningless events that happen in our lives; they dont matter in the grand scheme of things.…

What are the Odds? What happens when coincidences occur that seem too incredible to be true? Coincidences are defined as, a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. These coincidences are considered to be random and meaningless events that happen in our lives; they dont matter in the grand scheme of things.…