Broken Fate In I am Mordred, Mordred proves in countless moments that Fate can never be predicted, no matter the power of one’s heart. Many wonder if one person can truly possess the strength to cripple the inability to escape what will happen in one’s life. Even Mordred questioned himself through day and night in order to find answers. Now crying as a crow, those who listen, learn that no one ever knows their true legacy.
Through the beginning Mordred already found pain in young age. “...When I was human and young, when I first looked wide-eyed upon Camelot, it was hard to be who I was: Mordred, the shadow on all that shone, the bad seed” (Springer 1). Mordred starts off by showing the reader how his days are so difficult in the beginning.
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A few come from the abusive words of his brother Garet. “...You’re evil born, everyone knows it. King Arthur's son and his nephew at the same time, what sort of human is that? You’re a walking curse. You’re the one who’s going to kill King Arthur. That’s why he tried to kill you. You’re so vile your own father tried to kill you” (Springer 19). Words of the truth begin to show turmoil in Mordred heart. The six year old wonders how everyone could love that of which had conceived a child of corrupt evil with his own sister, only to push said child out to meet death. This hatred only thrusted Mordred towards the corner of further depression, and fear. Now, lending himself to this sorrow, a dilemma has been shined on. The previous thought precaution of Lothian being a kind of safe house was now only an endangerment. In the aftermath of Garet, and Mordred’s mental breakdown, Nyneve discusses with the child about a few things. During this discussion Mordred shows his true emotions by telling Nyneve, “I do not wish to be a murder” (Springer 25). If Mordred hated his father, and had no compassion, then he would want to kill King Arthur. The audience discovers a tortured heart by Mordred stating that he has no intention on completing his …show more content…
“...all those babies starved or died...except one...And the one who survived was his son, who was destined to destroy him...Do you see? There is no escaping the working of fate” (Springer 81). Explained in such a truthful way, his fate seems to be unbeatable. During the conversation, hearing these words of his blackened aunt put Mordred towards the position to where he now honestly understands the weight placed on his shoulders. “...the greatest villain of Arthurian legend… one who is tied up with a fate King Arthur cannot escape” (Jones). Every recognition of Mordred examines his fate in such a story. Though these words do not block the boy from fighting future events, they bring him closer an acceptance of the
Absolute in every child’s mind is the belief that they are right, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Until children grow up to raise children own their own, a parent’s disputation only inflates that desire to prove. Part and parcel to this, as one may find out through personal experience or by extension, cruelty towards parents is a reflection of a child’s own inadequacy (whether in large or small scale). In this sense, King Lear is a story of children with a desire to break past their hierarchal status. Whether it is the belief that a woman shall take a husband, and with that guard her inherited land, or what role bastards truly deserves in a society that preemptively condemns them. Cruelty at the hands of children accounts for almost
In this section the importance of destiny is again reminded to us. In this story the idea of God chooses your destiny and some of us become kings and some become slaves. It doesn’t matter what you do because you can’t change your destiny God has picked out for you.
At times, ”Dawn”, can be a metaphor for a time of clarity. It is also called an “epiphany”. When a person has an epiphany, it may cause them to realize that there is a bigger problem the whole time. Similarly, as Romeo and Juliet were completing their final conversation before Romeo is banished, Juliet exclaims, “‘ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb’” (Romeo and Juliet 3.5.56). In Shakespeare's famous play, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet realizes that there is bigger problem because she has the epiphany of Romeo dead in a tomb. Likewise, while saying that there is too much pain and suffering, the narrator explains that, ‘“At sunrise …Too much pain, too much pressure’’”(doc.1). This quote from Campbell’s song, ”Sunrise”, demonstrates that epiphanies
...ld such dangers have any significance to life? Jim Carroll tells the real story of his fear of the end and the mixed feelings of what matters, what doesn't. His fear is accompanied by confusion of how to live, today, with the possibility of being killed tomorrow.
H. White’s The Once and Future King adds more backstory as to why Mordred is evil, placing partial blame for his hatred on his mother. He adds to the story that Mordred was raised by his mother, Morgause, who “existed in him like the vampire” and influenced his later life choices (White 477). White clearly states that Morgause motivated the innocent child into the monster he becomes later in life. In Thomas Malory’s version, Mordred is the only person blamed for Mordred’s hatred. Mordred does not have an sympathetic childhood in Malory’s version. In fact, “ a good man found him, and nourished him till he was fourteen year old” which implies that he was not influenced by his mother or anyone else (Malory 68). No motive for his later crimes is mentioned in the earlier versions because medieval society were unconcerned with quality investigations into crimes. In most societies today, we are accustomed to a justice system that investigates and establishes a motive for the crime. Modern people do not just assume that a person did the crime on his own will without any reason. White was writing to a society of people who are accustomed to full criminal investigations that included a criminal’s motive. Adding that Mordred is raised by his hateful mother, White gives modern readers a reason why Mordred was so hateful, like an actual investigation would give to the public. The addition of his mother’s influence creates sympathy because as a child
We are all condemned to death; it is inescapable. Even if a person doesn’t believe in the concept of destiny, it is undeniable that every person is fated to die at some point. Most people, however, are not aware of when exactly the inevitable will approach. Often in works of fiction, the reader, or sometimes even the character, is aware of their fate. There are many different understandings of destiny, which is one of the reasons why it has played such a large role in so many different literary works throughout the world and history. Fate is one of the principal literary devices used in Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, Shakespeare’s tragic play, Antony and Cleopatra, and Tolstoy’s pedagogical novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych.
...that fate. Events that lead to other events will eventually lead one to their fate. “Oedipus the King” is a great play that sets an example of what fate is. Oedipus chooses to flee from home, in attempt to avoid the god’s statement of his fate from coming true. However, Oedipus’s decision for fleeing is what was necessary to make his fate come true. Undoubtedly, this is what was meant to happen because Oedipus allowed it to. Perhaps if Oedipus ignored the god and never did a thing then perhaps the outcome could have been different for Oedipus. However it did not turn out that way and the choices that Oedipus made is what led him to his doom.
The outcome of things depends on both the power of the individual and destiny because they tie in with each other. Things do not just happen, randomly, they happen for a reason only to be seen at the end of things. For example, Jim was raised by his parents in Virginia until they died, upon which his relatives shipped him west to his grandparents. This is part of his journey through life which was predetermined. Jim, as an adult writing, realizes that Destiny makes our decisions and nothing need be worried about because he "did not say my prayers that night [the first night on the farm in Nebraska]: here, I felt, what would be would be." (7) The next big chance Jim takes where his is unsure of what will happen is going to college. Over there he befriends Gaston Cleric, a Classics Instructor. Later on Cleric gets a job at Harvard that "he would like to take me East with him. To my astonishment, gran...
...the future to see that his life is not ruined by acts of immaturity. And, in “Araby”, we encounter another young man facing a crisis of the spirit who attempts to find a very limiting connection between his religious and his physical and emotional passions. In all of these stories, we encounter boys in the cusp of burgeoning manhood. What we are left with, in each, is the understanding that even if they can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, we can. These stories bind all of us together in their universal messages…youth is something we get over, eventually, and in our own ways, but we cannot help get over it.
The choices people make lead them to where they end up, which may be interpreted as the opposite of fate. However, when some people believe something is meant to be, they are determined not to stray from where they think they should end up, even if it means throwing away their principles and values in the process. Through Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth’s original character and values are destroyed because of the influence from the witches' prophecies, Lady Macbeth's greed, and his own hidden ambition.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can be anything you want to be”. He believed that free will is enough to allow people to be what they want to be. On the other side, tales such as Greek mythology speak of inescapable destinies locked in by fate. Whether the fate is targeted at a god or a hero, he tries everything to eschew the prophecy, except the fate always comes true; often the free will’s resistance against the fate acts as the root of the fate. One of William Shakespeare’s plays, Macbeth, revolves around issues involving fate and free will. The main character Macbeth is seen attempting to invalidate unfavorable prophecies by his free will. Macbeth is not under complete free will, but he is a mere victim of ruthless psychological manipulation disguised in the name of fate; it leads him to the “fates” that should never have occurred.
One cannot escape one’s fate. The theme of fate and freewill is central to William Shakespeare’s play Richard III, in which Richard III battles with the two in his quest for the crown. Richard seeks to escape his fate as a deformed and unfinished hunchback by using what little power he has to gain more power and respect. Although Richard thinks that he is acting on his own free will, fate still controls him throughout his journey. In addition, Richard’s fate is expressed in the form of a curse that Margaret delivers as punishment for his crimes against her and her family. Even though everyone sees Margaret as an irrational person, her curses against Richard and several other people end up coming true. Although Richard’s fate comes true, free will is still seen throughout the play, namely in the struggle of conscience.
Fate is an inevitable – seldom disastrous – outcome; regardless of one’s desire to veer it in a different path, fate is adamant. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, there is a steadfast question of whether Macbeth is a victim of fate or that he chooses his own path. By instilling his character, Macbeth, with ambition and ruthlessness, Shakespeare demonstrate that a person – in this case Macbeth – is doomed not by fate, but by flaws in his/her character.
He is not sure if the supposed ghost of his father is a demon or the deceased king, therefore, he decides to postpone the deed of avenging his father. This uncertainty makes him go through an array of feelings, from loneliness and powerlessness to contemplating his own suicide.
Fate, being always truly unknown and seemingly static, is not something that one should tamper with. It leads all decisions and outcomes, if one so chooses to believe in the concept of predestination. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, three witches decisively go against their orders and toy with the lives of thousands of people by telling riddles of the future and it’s biddings. Evidently, all those who were given a glance into their future by the meddling trio soon let sanity slip through their fingers and fell into their eventual demise. Banquo, who being told of his kins’ fortune and fames soon to come, grows weary of his friend and is soon killed out of fear. Although his timidity was wise, it did not help him in living to see such foretellings. Lady Macbeth, although she never directly spoke to by our mischievous trinity, suffers along with the fate of the others when she allows herself to cover herself in the tendrils of greed and lust. When one allows themselves to be engrossed in the words of another stranger, though how plausible the words may be, they will fall just as Macbeth did. At first, he was not keen on getting his hands dirtied to fulfill such preposterous fortunes, but soon fell short of his mind and destroyed the vast majority of Scotland and of himself. Fate is a dangerous and unavoidable truth in life, it can destroy the ability of free will and the freedom that living should bring you.