Forces vs. Reality

Often people believe in other forces that determine their lives, like fate or other forces. Fate is defined as “The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events.” Though, many accept this concept that fate has an influence on their lives, Edmund, a character from William Shakespeare’s King Lear disagrees:
“This the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.” ( )
Edmund states the belief that our actions aren’t decided by others, but from our own decisions. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Scott F. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby convey this theme through their literature.
In Macbeth, the characters struggle with fate and decis...