“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, could not be more correct in stating that people’s lives are guided by both fate and free will. However, one of those two traits often seems to play a bigger role in individual people’s lives depending on what type of society they live in. Societies that happen to have a more ordered system of government, under fewer people, like Thebes from Antigone by Sophocles, usually have citizens who have more free will and rely on their own choices more. Contrastingly, residents of communities like Umuofia in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which are governed by several people, are usually guided