Fate

Like a Colossus; and we petty men

Walk under his huge legs, and peep about

To find ourselves dishonorable graves

Men at some time are masters of their fates:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings

This familiar quotation was taken from the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Although this quote is over 400 years old I agree with the author when he writes, "Men at some time are masters of their fates". This quotation suggests that people have a fate chosen for them but they can do certain things to modify that chosen fate. This is why I think that people, except when other wills are involved, are masters of their own fate.

Others might say that Shakespeare is wrong and that people have no power over their own fates. They might take this position because they think that people, like the character Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart, do not have control over their fates because they might say that Okonkwo did not have control over his exile. These people are wrong because as we can see through literature, philosophy and

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