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Theme 1. Fate vs. Freewill. Destiny – Choices – Fate. Fate is set and cannot be altered in anyway. The choices you make can alter your destiny (the path you take) but not your fate. The choices you make can alter the path you take ( destiny ) but your fate will never change. Example.

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  1. Theme 1 Fate vs. Freewill

  2. Destiny – Choices – Fate • Fate is set and cannot be altered in anyway. • The choices you make can alter your destiny (the path you take) but not your fate. • The choices you make can alter the path you take (destiny) but your fate will never change.

  3. Example • Ex. 2 people are both in grade 12 wondering what they are going to do when they finish school. • 1 person decides to go right into a job after she graduates and does not get any other education. The other person decides to go into business. • The person who works for 20 years at their minimum wage job and ends up winning 1 million dollars in the lottery. The person who went into business school works for 20 years and ends up saving 1 million dollars for retirement. • Their fate is the same (both have 1 million after 20 years working) but the path they took to get there (destiny) was based on the choices they made.

  4. Fate vs. Freewill • In Julius Caesar you are supposed to be asking yourself whether everything that happens is because of fate (or already set in stone) or whether people can actually change the path of their life based on the decisions they make. • Looking at 2 characters in particular • Brutus and Caesar

  5. Brutus • Brutus did not know what to do about the situation with Caesar. Should he be obedient to Caesar because he is in power, or should he do what he feels is best for Rome? • If you believe that fate is in control of all aspects of his life then it would not really matter which choice he makes because the outcome would be the same.

  6. His decision • Brutus ends up joining the plot against Caesar (pg 57-59, soliloquy) • Translation of that soliloquy- The only way is to kill Caesar. I have no personal reason to strike at him—only the best interest of the people. He wants to be crowned. The question is, how would being king change him? Evil can come from good, just as poisonous snakes tend to come out into the open on bright sunny days—which means we have to walk carefully. If we crown him, I have to admit we’d be giving him the power to do damage. Rulers abuse their power when they separate it from compassion. To be honest, I’ve never known Caesar to let his emotions get the better of his reason. But everyone knows that an ambitious young man uses humility to advance himself, but when he reaches the top, he turns his back on his supporters and reaches for the skies while scorning those who helped him get where he is. Caesar might act like that. Therefore, in case he does, we must hold him back. And since our quarrel is with his future behavior, not what he does now, I must frame the argument like this: if his position is furthered, his character will fulfill these predictions. And therefore we should liken him to a serpent’s egg—once it has hatched, it becomes dangerous, like all serpents. Thus we must kill him while he’s still in the shell.

  7. Caesar • Had he listened to the omens presented to him by the soothsayer as well as his wife might he have lived? (freewill) • Was the plot against him bound to happen anyway? • “I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus” (3.2)

  8. If it was all fate… • Brutus joining the plot would not have altered anything, Caesar still would have died. • The soothsayers prediction would have been proven true.

  9. If freewill ruled the outcome… • Then we must accept the characters actions as being the reason for Caesar’s death and know that it could have been prevented. • This would seem to suggest that we have power over how our life turns out.

  10. Important quotes about Fate and Freewill • 1) FLAVIUSThese growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wingWill make him fly an ordinary pitch,Who else would soar above the view of menAnd keep us all in servile fearfulness. (1.1) • 2) SOOTHSAYERBeware the ides of March.CAESARHe is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass. (1.2)

  11. CASSIUS 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. (1.2) CASCAMen all in fire walk up and down the streets.And yesterday the bird of night did sitEven at noon-day upon the market-place,Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigiesDo so conjointly meet, let not men say"These are their reasons; they are natural";For, I believe, they are portentous thingsUnto the climate that they point upon. (1.3)

  12. 3)BRUTUSShall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?My ancestors did from the streets of RomeThe Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king."Speak, strike, redress!" Am I entreatedTo speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise:If the redress will follow, thou receivestThy full petition at the hand of Brutus! (2.1)

  13. 4) CAESARNor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight.Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out,"Help, ho! They murther Caesar!" (2.2) • 5) CAESARCalphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home;She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,Did run pure blood, and many lusty RomansCame smiling and did bathe their hands in it.And these does she apply for warnings and portentsAnd evils imminent, and on her kneeHath begg'd that I will stay at home today. (2.2)

  14. 6) CAESAR [To the soothsayer] The ides of March are come.Soothsayer Ay, Caesar; but not gone. (3.1)

  15. 7) ANTONYOver thy wounds now do I prophesy(Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lipsTo beg the voice and utterance of my tongue)A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;Domestic fury and fierce civil strifeShall cumber all the parts of Italy;Blood and destruction shall be so in use,And dreadful objects so familiar,That mothers shall but smile when they beholdTheir infants quarter'd with the hands of war;All pity choked with custom of fell deeds,And Caesar's spirit ranging for revenge,With Ate by his side come hot from hell,Shall in these confines with a monarch's voiceCry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,That this foul deed shall smell above the earthWith carrion men, groaning for burial. (3.1)

  16. 8) BRUTUSWhy then, lead on. O, that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!But it sufficeth that the day will end,And then the end is known. (5.1)

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