The Omnipotence of Fate in the Literary Canon
What characterizes the concept of fate? How do liturgical, literary and artistic creations deal with its presence? Alongside technological, scientific and artistic developments come different perceptions of mankind’s own raison-d’être and the status of his existence. The thought of a master puppeteer controlling each and every fibre of human life, has entranced man since the incipience of civilization. We have never looked back as our fascination and intoxication continues to amplify with the ebbing tune of fate’s every chord. The potent motor that churns, producing our thoughts and reasons for making the decisions that bring us through to our final destination, is the basis of our fates. Literature and art spanning centuries; from Shakespeare’s renowned tragedies King Lear, and Macbeth, to Ivan Turgenev’s masterpiece Fathers and Sons, to the contemporary lyrical compositions of The Dave Mathews Band, are redolent of man’s vision of life’s purpose, shifting, while still echoing the tenets of fatalism’s doctrine. The belief and fear in the presence of witches, ghosts, hexes, and other elements of the supernatural is rife during Elizabethan England. The putative notion of a perceptible relationship between the macrocosm of t
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Approximate Word count = 1562
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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