Victim of fate

text and subtext. The text of the film argues for fate, predestination, and luck while the subtext serves as a support beam through lighting, imagery, and in this film’s case, a lack of music. Further support of the text and subtext can be found through an analysis of the main characters, including the criminal Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), Sherriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), and the “hero” Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin). These men’s approaches to fate and the imagery associated with their characters

attempt to control fate singlehandedly are certainly the qualities of a tragic hero. In attempting to control his own fate, Macbeth only seals the fate that the three witches had already set for him. Ultimately,

In the Elizabethan Era, society was highly suspicious of the power of supernatural forces and it was commonly accepted that one’s life was governed by fate and was predetermined. Shakespeare’s Macbeth challenges the Elizabethan ideology of fate by privileging that although Macbeth was a victim of his “vaulting ambition” (1:VII 27), he was ultimately responsible for his villainous actions. Shakespeare has foregounded certain events to privilege that a person has free will and a concience and the

people, was in control of his life. Everything that happened to him was a result of his poor decisions, lust for power, and a willingness to further tap into an inner darkness that eventually consumed him. Considering these facts Macbeth is not a victim of fate by any stretch of the definition. At the start of Macbeth the first display of his lust for power occurred. When he is presented with the title of the thane of Cawdor, he begins to think upon the Weird Sisters prophecy, and decides he

coin flip decide their fate for them. Chigurh kills people without remorse or compassion. In the film he is described of having his own set of morals, while he does not kill at random nor does he kill without a purpose he does however gives many of his victims a chance to survive by making deals with one another. He uses a coin to help decide the fate of the victim to either spare their lives or to kill them. However, in the film he does seem to spare the life of a few victims, for example, the old

The mystifying yet familiar concept of fortune has been pondered over by many generations of philosophers, lovers, and street bums. Fate and fortune’s decrees go hand in hand, although fortune often dictates the extent to which one’s fate is desirable for its victim. In William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, fortune hands Hamlet a fate that is gut-wrenching. He is given the task to avenge the murder of his father, the King of Denmark, who was killed by his own brother, Claudius, for the throne. Faced

Atwood has deliberately created different victim positions to show how the imposed regime has oppressed the different women in her novel, The Handmaid's Tale, and shows how they respond to their oppression using these victim positions. She has created four such positions in which to categorize her characters; Position One is to deny the fact that they are a victim, Position Two is to acknowledge the fact that you are a victim, but to explain this as an act of Fate, the Will of God or necessity decreed

Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, portrays both a Byronic hero and a tragic hero. Characteristics of both of these types of hero archetypes shape Victor by depicting him as a victim, despite the fact that he created the monster, and these characteristics shape the themes of the novel. Victor has characteristics of a Byronic hero, which shapes his character and the themes. A Byronic hero is a “melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in

previous actions. In the play Romeo and Juliet, fate is the cause of all the tragic events as seen through the attitude of the characters, the fight scene, and the graveyard scene. Over time, there has been a large outside look at the attitude of the characters and their beliefs in fate. John Russell Brown wrote in his book: “At a number of places in the text, both Romeo and Juliet

people by fear. For instance, let’s talk about how in both situations the victims decide to realize their fate because of how bad things have gotten. Here is a quote from the book Night showing that the people had just given up and decided to see that they were no longer who they previously were. “There no longer was any distinction between rich and poor, notables and the others; we were all people condemned to the same fate-still unknown.” This shows how they had realized what was going on, and how