Cade Gray Ms. Remaud English D Period May 22, 2024. Cade Gray Ms. Remaud English D Period May 22, 2024 What matters more, freewill or Fate What matters more? Free Will or Fate? This existential question occurs to many people at least once in their lifetime. For example, does God have control over life, knowing every decision ever made, or do humans? Based on the eighth-grade texts, some protagonists exercise free will after living in the dark. In Niccols' dark comedy The Truman Show, Wiesel's memoir Night, and Williams's courage-filled Invictus, the main characters' most apparent reason they escaped the horrors of injustice, some worse than others, is because they awakened and took control of their own lives. In The Truman's Show, will Truman …show more content…
Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Helping one another to be better. It is the only way to survive." Elie remembers this, which helped him keep his will to survive. A second illustration of free will in the memoir Night could be whenever Elie says, "We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we are the only men on earth." This shows they had no one deciding their Fate because they had forgotten the rules of humanity: nothing between death but the will to live and belief in God, even if it was small, let them live. Invictus is another example of free will in literature we have read this year. In Invictus, a man is in the deepest depths of misery, the horror of death. Through this agony, he still dares to say, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Proving that in the end, we …show more content…
Shows courage and looks into how Elie did not succumb to death but drove his ship toward life, which led to his memoir being published. A final example of how free will connects throughout the fabric of humanity and time is the story of Adam and Eve. Even though this is not literature, we must talk about it since it is where free will begins. The story of how God made Adam and Eve. There was an evil snake who was Satan. He told them to eat the fruit to gain God's knowledge; they did and were consequently punished. Due to this, free will is a good, but horrible thing to have. It can lead to life, joy, sin, and death, connecting to every book and humanity because this event started with free will. However, free will is also a true testament to our Fate because we decide our Fate in the afterlife with God. Connecting to why Akiba Drummer said at night, "God is testing us." This quote shows how God truly wants to see our instinct to believe in Him. Free will, in the end, decides our fate. This is because we do not have a particular path, but we choose it. You could want to be a pro football player one day, then a mathematician the next. You could be
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie and other Jews judge what is right from wrong by using their conscience and free will. Because of Germany’s current leader at the time, Adolf Hitler, the promise of economic reform and a stronger military infrastructure quickly turned somber as the effect of these promises impacted the Jewish community. Without a doubt, many Jews were able to tell the difference between right and wrong using their conscience and make the choice to say it based on their free will. The same principle can apply to any individual no matter how severe the situation is. In the book Night, Elie and other Jews were sent to multitudes of camps for either labor or execution. In Elie’s case, extensive labor was forced upon him and his father. Elie and his dad were
Many have debated about the topic of free will versus determinism. Edith Wharton, addresses this topic through her novel, Ethan Frome. Wharton introduces many instances in which the events that occur in the protagonist, Ethan Frome’s life, seem predetermined. These events were not predetermined however, because they were a reflection of Ethan’s expression of free will. Because humans have the ability to make conscious decisions, they have free will.
The Jews at that point touch base at Birkenau, a gathering place for Auschwitz, where they experience a choice procedure; a procedure that decides if they are lived or if they are to bite the dust in the crematory. Despite everything, they have something of a feeling of nobility, as they consider regardless of whether to rebel against this abomination. “The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusion” (Wiesel, 29). The Jews still have the quality to dissent, and they perceive that they are being dealt with like creatures. In any case, they soon understand that a dissent is no benefit and that God should spare them if he means for them to survive. The Jews are exhibiting a much measure of good-soul and expectation, however, at last, it feels no need. Elie is having his particular questions about God. He is scanning for a reason about why God would release this on. “Over there. Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them?” (Yes, we saw the flames) “Over there, that’s where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still don't understand? You sons of bitches. Don’t you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!” (Wiesel, 31). Elie, once an extremely religious
Choice and chance appear to blur together in Night, and in Elie’s own opinion, all actions lead to the same fate under the conditions. Upon entering the camp, an inmate forced his advice onto Elie and his father.... ... middle of paper ... ... No.
The decision of Adam and Cal Trask to overcome their struggles and Cathy’s decision to succumb to evil prove that the choice of what to do with one’s life is completely up to the individual. John Steinbeck’s use of the biblical story of Cain and Abel builds on the idea that a person is completely responsible for choosing what becomes of them in result of a word, an action and a memory. Undoubtedly everyone has the choice whether or not they wish to triumph over the pain and the sins they are struggling with. After all, look at Ghandi he witnessed children burdened with evil inheritance walk away surmounted because of their strength to rein over evil.
It has been sincerely obvious that our own experience of some source that we do leads in result of our own free choices. For example, we probably believe that we freely chose to do the tasks and thoughts that come to us making us doing the task. However, we may start to wonder if our choices that we chose are actually free. As we read further into the Fifty Readings in Philosophy by Donald C. Abel, all the readers would argue about the thought of free will. The first reading “The System of Human Freedom” by Baron D’Holbach, Holbach argues that “human being are wholly physical entities and therefore wholly subject to the law of nature. We have a will, but our will is not free because it necessarily seeks our well-being and self-preservation.” For example, if was extremely thirsty and came upon a fountain of water but you knew that the water was poisonous. If I refrain from drinking the water, that is because of the strength of my desire to avoid drinking the poisonous water. If I was too drink the water, it was because I presented my desire of the water by having the water overpowering me for overseeing the poison within the water. Whether I drink or refrain from the water, my action are the reason of the out coming and effect of the motion I take next. Holbach concludes that every human action that is take like everything occurring in nature, “is necessary consequences of cause, visible or concealed, that are forced to act according to their proper nature.” (pg. 269)
Throughout the hundreds of years, individuals have pondered the impact of heavenly or insidious force, environment, hereditary qualities, even excitement, as deciding how free any individual is in settling on good decisions. Fate, a result of the past, is often described as the advancement of occasions out of man 's control, dictated by an extraordinary force. In any case that someone may utilize their freewill can reflect upon their outcomes, decided upon a supreme force, whether they are positive or negative. In the novels “A Lesson Before Dying,” Ernest Gaines and “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck, the authors explore the trials and tribulations of self influenced fate controlled by an higher force.
One of the most interesting features about today’s media is that it connects many individuals in perplexingly short amounts of time. Through constant streaming, society has become extremely vulnerable by allowing themselves to be engrossed by the presented reality. The outcome is unsuspecting citizens that are mentally deformed by the adverse lies told to them. Gary Shteyngart exploits this reality through his successful novel, Super Sad True Love Story (2010) in which he creates a fictional world focusing on consumerism and commercialism. This fictive work creates an environment of secrecy in which the government actively displays more cover-ups and less controversial activity. Similarly, but to a much larger extent, Peter Weir’s film The Truman Show (1998) presents a city consisting of theatrical illusions surrounded by
The Truman show written by Peter Weir follows the story of Truman Burbank whom of which lives in a fake and false world, but is unaware that his whole life has been controlled by the creator of the show, Christof, and that all the people in his life are actors and his life is a television production and his city is an elaborate television set. The Truman Show is a satirical commentary and talks about how the media is a large influence in our lives. Weir uses many film techniques, such as production design, camera, editing, lighting, sound and characterisation, to make us empathise with the protagonist, Truman, as he learns the truth about his life and escapes the television set and ends Christof’s control on his life. In the film in the opening
Imagine what it would be like to live in a "Perfect" world. "The Truman Show" is a movie where Truman Burbank is born and raised in a television set. His family and friends are all actors. His life is all being controlled and directed by Christof. He is being recorded and watched by millions of people 24/7. This movie is also known to give examples of existentialism such as, existence precedes essence, Truman being given a purpose by Chirstof, , fear, Truman comes to the realization and goes mad, and freedom, when Truman makes his own decisions.
Free will is an inherited ability everyone obtains from birth. This ability allows humans or any living being the freedom to act on their own behalf without being influenced or forced by an external medium. However, this fragile, yet powerful capability is susceptible of being misused that may result in unsavory consequences to the one at fault. In Paradise Lost and Frankenstein, both texts feature powerful figures who bequeathed the characters in focus, the freedom to do whatever they desire in their lives. Satan and Adam and Eve from Paradise Lost, and the monster from Frankenstein are given their free will from their creators, all encounter unique scenarios and obstacles in their respective texts however, have distinctions in how they handle
The Truman Show takes place on a massive, life-sized stage with Truman Burbank as the protagonist. It is a contrived world where all interactions take place effortlessly from the day he was born to his ultimate realization and escape. In his life, there was no true privacy. Every moment was recorded as a source of reality entertainment for the masses of the outside world, and if anyone from the outside or on the set were to intervene and try to disclose the actual reality of his situation, they were quickly suppressed and/or replaced. This, coupled with many other obstacles, made it very difficult for Truman to break the illusion. Despite the many failures, he eventually came to spot the inconsistences himself (with a little help), leading
Striking Balance It's important for individuals to be able to maintain a balance between their relationships and personal desires. In the Truman Show, the author develops the idea that when an individual attempts to strike a balance between individuality and their relationships, they frequently struggle to keep things in balance, which leads to problems and forces them to make compromises to one or another. Through Truman's journey in a heavily controlled world, as shown in the film, it precisely depicts how when Truman tries to fend for freedom, it causes harm to his relationships creating conflict between them. This highlights how individuals are trapped between being able to fulfill their own personal desires while still preserving their
It is impossible to taste the sweet without having first tasted the sour. This is one of the many lessons found within Genesis 2.0 and more specifically the story of Adam and Eve. It is also from this twisted tale of betrayal and deceit that we gain our knowledge of mankind?s free will, and God?s intentions regarding this human capacity. There is one school of thought which believes that life is mapped out with no regard for individual choice while contrary belief tells us that mankind is capable of free will and therefore has control over hisown life and the consequences of his actions. The story of Adam and Eve and the time they spent in ?paradise? again and again points to the latter as the truth. Confirming that God not only gave mankind the ability to think for himself but also the skills needed to take responsibility for those thoughts and the actions that they produced.
Human nature is about free will, and using one’s free will for good acts. We know free will exists because living things are being changed day after day. Any act, from walking across a room to deciding to eat a meal, is because of free will. We are given free will and with that, the ability to create our own, unique path in life. Free will provides human beings with freedom, judgement, and responsibility. Every human being is born with the capability to live a good, just life. However it is just as possible to live an immoral life led by bad choices. This notion of endless options in life is made possible by God’s gift of free will. No two human lives will ever be the same, because no two people will ever have the exact same experiences their entire lives. Every human being is shaped by experience, which comes from our actions, which are results of free will.