Are we really responsible for our own destiny and actions; this is a question that humanity has wondered for centuries over time. The ability to choose, think, and act voluntarily. For many philosophers, to believe in free will is to believe that human beings can be the authors of their own actions but rejecting what is inevitably predetermined; destiny. (Dictionary) Most people have deliberated the impact of godlike or power, environment, or even heredities, as being influential how free any individual is in making ethical choices. It’s known to be that the ancient Greeks accepted the role of Fate as a reality outside the individual that shaped and determined human life. (CliffsNotes) Fate vs will is a big debate in two literature works Oedipus …show more content…
Knowledge can be described as awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus was introduced as an appreciative, heroic king at the beginning of the play, to a dictator in rejection toward the middle, to a dreadful, predestined man, humbled by his disastrous fate by the end. Oedipus gained the knowledge of knowing it was his fate to kill his father and marry (bare children) his mother. Knowing that hateful “fate” that awaits him in the future he puts his “free will” into full force to stir clear of that prophecy. This action opens the tragedy and sets the pace for all that is to be revealed throughout the story, for it is the words of the oracle that cause the revelation of fate. Like wise to Oedipus; Aeneas isn’t exactly the one who gains knowledge of something but instead goddess Juno (goddess who hates the Trojans) gains knowledge of Aeneas sailing to Italy to find a new home for him and his people. Juno knows that if Aeneas and his people find a home in Italy that they would become Romans therefore destroy Carthage So with the new knowledge of Aeneas plan Juno collaborated with the god of the winds and lashes up a storm, forcing the Trojans to take refuge in Carthage. Gaining knowledge of what’s to come gave both Oedipus and Juno opportunity to intervene with fate (destiny) and chose their ability of free will to determine