Free Will: A Short Story

In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, creates a dystopian society which is scientifically advance in order to make life orderly, easy, and free of trouble. This society is controlled by a World State who is not question. In this world life is manufactured and everyone is created with a purpose, never having the choice of free will. Huxley use of irony and tone bewilders readers by creating a world with puritanical social norms, which lacks love, privacy and were a false sense of happiness is instituted, making life meaningless and controlled.

The idea about free will and fate is still unsolved and debatable throughout the world. Some claim that humans have their own power to create their own destiny, however, others argue that they are inescapable victims of fate. The novel, Things Fall Apart, portrays the relationship between human’s determination to succeed and his or her own fate by describing Okonkwo as a tragic figure. While Okonkwo believes that he can overcome his fate through his hard work, Chinua Achebe reveals that fate is a powerful, inevitable event in the novel.

My mind raced like the race car, my heart beats as the hooves of a horse on a racetrack, and my thick eyelashes holding up the tears that were going to fall. As I locked eyes with the Monster, I knew that I wasn’t safe. The angry blue eyes like the ocean waves were locked in with my helpless black ones. This time, the ocean waves were set to destroy a ship. This time, that helpless ship was me.

So do we have a deal.” I was going to say yes then I figured out that if he was smart enough to escape a god I had to do more. “Yes, we do have a deal. But he seems smart so I’ll need a pair of legs and to go away from here. He will think that I am a drowning girl and will save me.”I said I swum to the surface took a breath of fresh air and begun to swim while humming old sailors songs then I saw his ship my lucky day I haven't even swum a whole day I thought I used the spell that Poseidon gave me for legs. when the ship was close to an island I began to scream "Help! I can't swim. please help me" one man dive in and swum up to me and took me to the boat I asked around and found Oddysious asked him to take me to my home island that was near the island of the sirens. He said no becous it was to risky.so I began to sing to them they fell under my spell instantly i sang the words “the island of the sirens is where we must go, crash into the rocks splattering blood and bone, so have your fun when you may but keep in mind you’ll die today, your body you will leave behind it’ll be eaten by the time of midnight-” I heard a loud crash the boat began to sink as I dived into the ocean and became a siren most of the crew began to drown I felt sort of guilty for sinking such a brilliant man but it wasn't my choice bt then I noticed there was a man who was swimming I got close enough to see who they are without them seeing me it was

The power of acting without necessity and acting on one’s own discretions, free will still enamors debates today, as it did in the past with philosophers Nietzsche, Descartes, and Hume. There are two strong opposing views on the topic, one being determinism and the other “free will”. Determinism, or the belief a person lacks free will and all events including human actions are determined by forces outside the will of an individual contrasts the entire premise of free will. Rene Descartes formulates his philosophical work through deductive reasoning and follows his work with his system of reasoning. David Hume analyzes philosophical questions with inductive reasoning and skeptism with a strong systematic order. Neither a systematic

In many cases the question of problem of evil is stemmed back to humanity. Throughout the years, “free will” has been under discussion. According to the Bible, Matthew 22:37; tells us that God has given each individual free will because it then allows us to love God with our whole heart if we so desire to, but doesn’t force it upon anyone. But again, in Genesis 1:26, the Bible says that God created humans in his own image unlike animals, we resemble our Creator in our capacity to display such qualities as love and justice, and like our creator, we have free will. So it has become obvious that yes, free will does exist-but is it the problem of evil? In my opinion a man's free will can most definately be related to society's

Cameryn felt something on her foot, pulling her down. She looked at her feet to see it was just seaweed, she kicked the green plant off her foot. As she looked back up the thing in the distance had come closer, and closer. When she was able to make out the object, she knew she was in trouble. A shark was coming at her and it looked like it wanted to kill. She cursed under her breath and started swimming away. She was a fast swimmer but the shark was faster. Soon the shark was swimming next to her, and then in front of her. It quickly turned around forcing her to swim back down. And that’s exactly what she did. She kept screaming for help in her head, but she knew no one could help her down there. She swam faster, hoping to outswim the shark

Gideon clung onto Aria like a small child, and she pulled away from him. He looked to her and hugged her again, placing his chin on her head. "I do...I-I remember everything..." Gideon pulled away and stared at her for a long while. He remembered her child like features, which had now developed into a beautiful young woman.

I love to swim. In any season, on any day. But almost evey time I swim I nearly drown myself, by diving further down than my lungs will permit. And now I fear that I've dove too deep. Because as I desperately try to breakthrough the surface, I can see the light. And how happy and full of energy it looks as it dances and shines down through the water. A light that I can never reach. And so I sink back to the bottom of the abyss, surrounded by darkness and feeling of nothing but how frigid and still everything is. Perhaps I sink due to the weight of the past or am I being lured down, by an enchanting siren, only for it to show me it's horrific face and to be devoured by it, time and time again. And I know that all I have to do is to let go

Of course, it wasn’t the ocean that was dangerous; it was the slithering things that lived in the water. Everyone had seen the carving outside of the docks—a huge, serpent like creature dragging a sailor down off his boat, the words ＢＥＷＡＲＥ ＴＨＥ ＳＩＲＥＮＳ emblazoned over the scene.

As they swam deeper, I continued to use my boogie board and just as I was about to catch a wave my mouth filled with water that was so salty it burned my throat. So I decided I was going to take a break and get a drink of water to get rid of the salty taste in my mouth. Though once I got to the sand and looked back to signal to my mom that I was going to go get water I couldn’t find where she was so I looked up and down the shore to see if she came out of the water although the only thing I saw was people coming out of the water and crowding on to the beach. I raced out of the water to see what was happening and to hopefully find my mom and sister.

A zephyr passed through and I felt like I had been possessed by a ghost, it left me in an utter awe. I ignored it thinking it was just out of the blue and got into the boat ready to paddle my way back to the home base. For the next hour we continued paddling, I heard a creak and immediately panicked wanting to know what the cause of the sound was. Levi reassured me that was nothing, but something told me it wasn’t. I tried to squeal and warn the others that I could see in a fin in the distance but I was dumbfounded and could not speak. I was just exhaling really deeply like a huge gush of wind. The creature came under our boat and hurled us over, I was drowning and almost fell at ease with death, as if I knew I was going to die and wasn’t going to battle to live. Dark murky water surrounded my eyes, no sign of the ghastly creature but blood everywhere, terror was lurking and my eyeballs were filled with the sheer fright, my brain contemplating the many circumstances I could be under. Sooner than I knew I had surfaced the water and was in search of my friends. I had spotted Eternity and Alice but there was no sign of Groth or the most significant person Levi. Without Levi the chance of our survival was zero, he was the only one to know the area and had all the vital tips and knowledge to know how to survive. Our survival chances now were close to a bottom rock absolute

My mom snapped some quick photos before we got drenched by the salty water, and the waves were fun to splash into. We had our boogie boards in our hands, and the sand in our toes while we rode the waves. Olivia and I had so much fun while Ben played in the sand, and mom took embarrassing videos and photos of us. Nothing was going wrong until I saw it. I don’t think anyone else saw it because I was the only one freaking out. It had it all, the dark gray scales, and the pointed fin poking out of the water. The dark eyes staring into mine, then came charging toward us, as if it wanted to attack us. I ran out of the water, my brother and cousin following me. What we saw will scar me for life. A shark that was so close, I could have reached my arm out and touch its sandpaper like scales.

It is said that 90% of the ocean is undiscovered, unnoticed. My mother had told me stories of demons that terrorized the blue underworld, though I knew better than to believe her. We were on the S.S Pearl, a beautiful vessel that we were taking back home, to London. Aboard the Pearl were 74 passengers, but my family was the upper class. Mama loved to brag that we were the wealthiest family on board, we were the few of the lucky families that survived the stock market crash, and still managed to keep our money intact. That night mama was getting ready for the grand gala.

It is a brisk summer day at Porretto Beach in Galveston, Texas. I, Casila, lay in the sand with my luxurious dark black hair spread out, hidden in the the sand. No matter how much the scalding heat bothers me, I do not dare enter the water. I lost my mother to the water not a year after I was born. I lost my brother fifteen years later to fire coral, which lives in the water. Now, twenty-three years after my mother’s death, I still live in fear.