Whether or not human beings have free will is not just a religious or philosophical debate, though. The existence of free will brings with it responsibility since each person, acting freely, is responsible for his or her actions. According to the legend, these two people are destined to be married, no matter what obstacles may stand in their way.įree will is, of course, the idea that human beings make their own decisions without the interference of any outside force. Each culture has had its own version of the fates the Norns ruled destiny in Nordic mythology in Chinese literature, the Yue Lao ties a red string to bind two people to each other. They had more power than the gods themselves as seen in Polyphemus’ prayer to Poseidon in Homer’s Odyssey. “Grant that Odysseus … may never reach his home … but if it is his fate to see his friends and to reach his house and his native land, late may he come and in evil case, after losing all his comrades…” ( Odyssey, Book IX). Fate was personified as three sisters: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who spun the thread of life. In this myth, three days after the birth of a child, the moirai were said to visit to determine a child’s fate. Perhaps the best known representation of the fate comes from Greek mythology in the form of The Moirai or the Fates.
The concept of fate is as old as mankind. 1885 by Alfred Agache three Norns surrounding an infant deciding his fate When Brother Juniper sees the bridge fall, he sets out to find out if the people who perished on the bridge were destined to die, or if they had done something that led to their deaths. “Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.” -Brother Juniperįate and Free Will are two forces completely at odds with each other that Thornton Wilder explores in The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
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