Analysis of Volatire´s Memnon the Philosopher

A man walks down a road, life, and suddenly there’s a fork in the road; the man must choose which path to go. One of the paths is a course he already knows the destination and the other route is a road he has never been through before. Whichever path he chooses to continue on he will have to accept the result. “We have two choices in life: to accept the condition we are put in or accept the responsibility for changing them” (Denis Waitley).
In Voltaire’s writing “Memnon the Philosopher,” Memnon at the beginning of the story chose to be constant and perfect, but when he was tricked by a woman and her uncle, he chose to dwell on his mistakes. The choice he made led to a series of defiance to his own philosophy. In the end he could not accept the result or responsibility for the change. We as humans are not perfect. That is the condition we are thrown into. While Memon thought he could change the fact, but it ended to his own demise. Another example of the choices we make and responsibility for changing them is a Greek mythology story called “Icarus”. The story tells about Icarus’s...