Escape the Fate

own oppression’ (438). Expanding on what Williams states, it can be maintained that Eveline is ‘complicit’ in her own oppression, because of her inability to explain herself to either Frank or her family. Also, the only opportunity she is given to escape is wasted through her inability to express herself. However, her failure to reply to Frank can also be read as literal speech paralysis. The final line of ‘Eveline’ is ‘[h]er eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition’ (34), showing

be said about fate and how it is often disregarded when one is consumed in the exhilaration of life. Universal fate exists as something that is unknown and feared by all, yet is what links the entire world together. Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death plays with the universal fate of death through the use of religious symbolism, ironic events, and ingenious contrasts. Poe’s strategies create a powerful effect on his readers to rethink life, its boundaries, and the inescapable fate that encloses

happily in their lives,while other characters are not able to exercise their free will as if all the social forces have been created for them. The ideas of imprisonment captivity confinement shows how they are related to the freedom of choice and fate is explored deeply throughout the novel,the residents of the people in London are conjested like that of prison.the symbols portrayed in the novel such as dark deeds,bad behaviour,smoke fog,constant rain,dark nights uncommonly cold weather etcshows

In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome conflicts with fate and free will. His fate being with his lifelong wife Zeena and him staying on the farm. His newfound free will being Mattie, Zeena's cousin. Ethan believes his free will comes from being with Mattie. He continues doing his farm work and stays with the woman he had married in an act to repay a family debt. In the book he thinks “ And what of Zeena’s fate? Farm and mill were mortgaged to the limit of their value, and even

Bierce uses imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism to convey the theme of determination but ultimately, one’s fate will always come. Bierce wrote a gripping short story that follows the journey of a man, Peyton Farquhar, preparing to be hanged when, so we think, he narrowly escapes death and attempts to

It has been millions of years that prophecies have been passed down to gods and that is what chooses a man’s destiny. As much as life is evil and it is controlled by man’s fate, man is still free to choose his life and is held responsible for the choices he makes. The man thought life was controlled by free will and he can escape from his destiny but that is not true. The play Oedipus Rex illustrates how a man's free will guides him to his destiny and his destiny guides him to the tragic hero. In the

an act in itself. The beginning of Oedipus’ fate, Jocasta’s loyalty to the

People make sacrifices either for themselves or for others. Scott Westfield’s book, Uglies, has Tally decide her own fate while shaping others. Tally meets shay and they go on an adventure to the rusty ruins where tally learns about the mysterious David. When Shay runs away to the smoke, Doctor Cable refuses to give Tally an operation to turn her pretty for life and forces her to rescue Shay from Smoke or she will not turn pretty. After her long journey to smoke she starts to do hard work and earn

to each new twist of fate.” This becomes true when regarding any situation which life presents itself, and the losers ultimately spend their days wallowing in their grief as they realize how they mishandled their fate. The same is true in Oedipus Rex, when the tragic hero, Oedipus, attempts to change his fate, but only ends up fulfilling it and causing more destruction than foretold. In the tragic play, Oedipus Rex, Sophocles demonstrates Oedipus attempting to alter his fate, but backfires and becomes

excess pride, leading to overconfidence, and hamartia meaning errors and weakness in judgment. Both of these characteristics are the main reason of destruction and downfall in mankind and the tragic hero in this play. The tragic hero is unable to escape his misfortune that is destined to happen.