The Crucible Fate Vs Free Will

Destiny the hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future. In some lives people allow fate to control their outcome in life. Seeking our wyrd can make us change it, if it's not the result we intended. In various cases fate dictates our lives.

In The Alchemist, Coelho examines the concept of the personal legend, that is, the destined path that each person should take to achieve the greatest happiness. In the story, a young shepherd boy is sent on a journey to find his own personal legend. On his quest he experiences failure, confusion, hope, love, fear and learns along the

Every character that travels down a path, that encounters obstacles on their journey, that makes sacrificial decisions faces each of these components as they undertake a life-altering quest. Often times the hero ventures out to save someone or solve a problem, but in fact, their true journey is a search for self-knowledge. Through every obstacle and road-block along the way, the character discovers more about themselves and their true identity. Though they may have journeyed across great lands to accomplish their mission, the thing they were searching for was inside of them all along; the journey and challenges only helped to reveal their real character. As explained in Thomas C. Foster’s literary criticism, How to Read Literature Like a Professor,

Who controls our destiny in life; our path to success? Ourselves, we control our own destiny to a certain limit. In the passage Into the Wild the author Jon Krakauer explains how one man, Chris McCandless, sent his destiny into the wild but died by following his path to fate. His death was the limit I referred to. Chris finds himself hitchhiking to Alaska to get away from his past to start his new journey of life. He was then known as Alexander Supertramp because he even changed his name so no one could find him, not even his parents. Though Chris dies in the end, he still was able to control his own path into the woods. No matter the difficulty of the situation you can always find yourself a new path.

Destiny, a word most people hear when speaking of love, life and death. This seven letter word is given too much power. What is it that convinces people that they are meant for something rather than their actions being the cause of any mishap or excitement in life. People have the power to do what they want so long as they are willing to sacrifice opportunities and relationships in order to reach their goal. This statement can be thoroughly and strongly proven through three astounding pieces of writing, The Iraq War Blog a nonfiction article written by Faiza Al-Araji and “Invictus” a poem by William Ernest Henley and Into the Wild a nonfiction novel written by Jon(Jack) Krakauer.

A personal legend is something that can interpret to many things. The meaning of a personal legend can be narrowed down as one’s sole purpose in life. According to king Melchizedek, a personal legend is what a person have always wanted to accomplish and when they are young they always knew what their personal legend is. Realizing your personal legend isn’t the hard part but deciding whether you are going to pursue it is. Living a fulfilling life without accomplishing your personal legend is a topic that can spark various arguments. According to the book, it isn’t possible to live a fulfilling life without achieving your personal legend because you start to feel as though a part of yourself is missing and a sense of regret.

In the stories of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and The Hundred Foot Journey, the protagonists embark on a journey which eventually returns them to their origin, allowing them to see how they evolve throughout their path and how their views of the world change. Santiago travels to the Sahara Desert to find his treasure, but realizes his Personal Legend is not the material wealth he gains, rather, how he balances the mind and heart to achieve success. Hassan looks to the people around him to give him the strength to succeed, but his power to succeed comes from within. Santiago and Hassan travel between continents, but return to their start. This allows them to realize that their Personal Legend is not the material wealth they receive – rather,

Paulo Chelho's The Alchemist, bestows readers with a philosophy, The philosophy is that everyone has a “personal legend” they must find that will lead them to satisfaction and joy. However, we have the choice to follow our “personal legend”. Ironically, the characters in this book seem to controvert this philosophy. They do not make choices for themselves, only doing what they are told to do by others, or what they can read into individual omens and signs. Thus, we have an anomaly of choice: do you follow your “personal legend” and give up your freewill and become happy, or do we choose not to follow our “personal legend” and live freely, but miserable?

Many people in the world have been able to know what is their personal legend in life and some have been able to achieve it. As a matter of fact, this book is about being able to follow your dreams and your goals in life. As a result of this story, it explains what is a personal legend and how it is able to affect a person's life. Paulo Coelho, the author of The Alchemist calls this novel a desire on a personal legend. When the story begins, the audience finds a young shepherd by the name of Santiago, who is spending his time fulfilling his passion of traveling through the fields and towns of Spain. Although Santiago, the main character, and his slow attempts of reaching his own personal legend of his goal. For example, when people are young they know what is their personal legend, and at a certain point in their lives everything comes together. However, as time goes on in life, there is this mysterious force that seems to blind people to their achievement of goals.

The main character of the story doubts that this is what he should do all throughout The Alchemist. He wants to know what will happen if he goes after his destiny, but he knows he will not know if he does not

It is arduous to believe that every individual has an established future, set by a higher power, such as fate or destiny that cannot be transmuted. Fate is defined as events that take place and are authorized by a higher power. However, futures are governed solely by free will and are not predetermined. Destiny and fate are made up concepts, skeptical people believe, in order to make out things they do not understand.

The words destiny and fate are words that always linger in the back of our minds. As young children we know exactly how our life is going to go, we are going to get married, have children, and live happily ever after. By the time we are in high school we have goals on graduating college and pursuing our careers, getting married, and living to retirement. But once we hit a bump in the road while trying to accomplish our dreams, our goals soon become ‘wants’ and we start to believe that our fate is different from what we thought and we walk around in life aimlessly looking for what will be our destiny. However, what if we are supposed to write our own fate, instead of looking for it?

Through all trials and tribulations of anyone 's life, there is one thing in common that every single one of us has: the journey we all take through life. Granted, it is never the same journey, but there is always a path that we follow down. Some of us believe in fate, where we believe that our path is already set out for us. There is also the group of people that believe you forge your path through life, and you make your own destiny. Personally, I have always believed in both. I believe you have your path set out for you, to a certain point; you are given the “basic outline” for your life and from your basic outline and mold, you make something of that. Just to prove my point, look at various celebrities who

General statement: Destiny sets our path in life while chance happens if we get lucky.

Every person, no matter the age or gender is, and will always be, worried about its destiny. Destiny, or fate, how most people tend to call it, represents the ultimate step in the road of an individual, the last stage of the play of every living thing. Something so common in the life of a person and yet, all people want to know its meaning. Along fate, there has always been the other subject, the one which describes how we get there, the choices, the true faith. It is what most people call free will or, the ability to make our own decisions with the hope of one day achieving a greater goal, to show our true faith. Throughout the course, we have sailed through different stories. Some more interesting than others but, something always remained the same. The struggle between fate and free will. This relationship has always been a mystery and to understand it we will take a look at how those two perceptions play a role in the stories No Exit, from Jean-Paul Sartre and Oedipus Rex, from Sophocles.