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Your history determines your future and you do not have much control over it, or do you? This is an example of a person’s fate and free will. Both Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Heart of Darkness share this common theme of fate and free will which is shown in both stories main characters. Both works characters blame their misfortunes on the principle of their fate. Early on in Phase the first of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Tess is taking a load of beehives to the market for her father when her wagon collides with the mail van and, Prince, the D’Urbervilles family horse is tragically killed. This single instance of fate has a significant impact on Tess’s life throughout the reading. Since there is no longer a horse to transport goods the family …show more content…

Tess slipped the letter under Angel’s door but never realized the letter slipped under the rug in his room and was never discovered by Angel. Having the situation affect Tess so much and it weighing heavily on her conscious she makes several attempts to confess to Angel, however, due to her unforgiving fate, all attempts seem to fail her. This confession takes a serious toll on Angel and his marriage to Tess as proved by his sleep walking episode. “Clare came close, and bent over her. Dead, dead, dead! He murmured.” (chp37). This proving his disgrace felt towards his wife after her …show more content…

So I worried them. The men said, ‘My dear fellow,’ and did nothing. Then – would you believe it? – I tried the women. I, Charlie Marlow, set the women to work – to get a job. Heavens! Well, you see the notion drove me. I had an aunt, a dear enthusiastic soul. She wrote: ‘It will be delightful. I am ready to do anything, anything for you. It is a glorious idea. I know the wife of a very high personage in the Administration, and also a man who has lots of influence” (H chp1 para19). It was here that we learn that Marlow feels destined by fate to proceed to Africa, therefore his fate will bring him to Kurtz. Marlow cannot help but meet Kurtz, it seems as if it is his fate to go into the interior, and experience it just as as Kurtz did, and eventually encounter the Kurtz himself. If we accept Kurtz as Marlow’s foil, this means that Kurtz was fated to go mad in the interior and could not stop it by any cognizant choice. However, Marlow faces many accidents that delays his journey into the interior. This too, proves to be a chance of fate in the

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