Fate
Throughout the ages, fate is a common theme. It is seen all over - in books, movies, video games - and usually there is one main question that fate is boiled down to: do you have the ability to control your fate? This is the main question explored in Shakespeare's Oedipus the King. In more recent times, this is also the main question explored in the film Run, Lola, Run.
This question is explored in Oedipus in the fact that Oedipus is trying to escape the fate that has been set before him: he will kill his father and marry his mother. He consistently tries to escape this fate, but inevitably fails because of the intervention of the gods. His fate leads to his downfall: his knowledge leads to blindness and exile.
It is the opposite in the case of Lola. She sees her fate and stares it in the face. She knows that if she and her boyfriend Manni don't scrounge up $100K by noon, they will be killed. So, instead of trying to run from her fate like Oedipus, she tries to change it. In a manner of ways, she tries to get the money without having to break the law. In a series of events, she is able to decide at the end of each scenario of time if this was an acceptable way for her life to go. She is obviously not satisfied by some since she dies in one. She eventually gets it right, though, and was able to change her fate for the better.
Although fate is a common theme for fictional things like books and movies, it can still apply to today's world. Many people believe in fate, usually to a varying degree. There are people that believe that fate is uncontrollable but there also are people that believe fate doesn't really exist (like me). The people that strongly believe in fate would say that fate, even if it is chaotic, controls everything. Anything that happens has an effect on something else and that cannot be changed. On the other hand, people like me might say that things like chain reactions are possible, but since there is no fate, everything just happens and there's no cosmic being or whatever in control of the universe.
So, to link all of this pile of words about fate together, it could be said that on the spectrum of belief of fate to nonbelief, Lola and Oedipus are pretty much huge believers. Then there's me floating over on the extreme other end. Depending on your beliefs, you could think that fate is controllable or it isn't. It really depends on circumstance.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! :]
This question is explored in Oedipus in the fact that Oedipus is trying to escape the fate that has been set before him: he will kill his father and marry his mother. He consistently tries to escape this fate, but inevitably fails because of the intervention of the gods. His fate leads to his downfall: his knowledge leads to blindness and exile.
It is the opposite in the case of Lola. She sees her fate and stares it in the face. She knows that if she and her boyfriend Manni don't scrounge up $100K by noon, they will be killed. So, instead of trying to run from her fate like Oedipus, she tries to change it. In a manner of ways, she tries to get the money without having to break the law. In a series of events, she is able to decide at the end of each scenario of time if this was an acceptable way for her life to go. She is obviously not satisfied by some since she dies in one. She eventually gets it right, though, and was able to change her fate for the better.
Although fate is a common theme for fictional things like books and movies, it can still apply to today's world. Many people believe in fate, usually to a varying degree. There are people that believe that fate is uncontrollable but there also are people that believe fate doesn't really exist (like me). The people that strongly believe in fate would say that fate, even if it is chaotic, controls everything. Anything that happens has an effect on something else and that cannot be changed. On the other hand, people like me might say that things like chain reactions are possible, but since there is no fate, everything just happens and there's no cosmic being or whatever in control of the universe.
So, to link all of this pile of words about fate together, it could be said that on the spectrum of belief of fate to nonbelief, Lola and Oedipus are pretty much huge believers. Then there's me floating over on the extreme other end. Depending on your beliefs, you could think that fate is controllable or it isn't. It really depends on circumstance.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! :]
