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Fate and Invictus
Sydney KatzXiao Wang
Andrew DouglasMegan Winstead
Fate by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author believes fate is unknown to man
The man’s fate is already determined and will shape his future
Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great:
Unknown to Cromwell as to me
Was Cromwell’s measure or degree;
Unknown to him as to his horse,
If he than his groom be better or worse.
Member of any of the 5 degrees of nobility in Great Britain or Ireland (duke, baron, etc.)
He was not supposed to be a king in England
Author sums up Cromwell’s attempt to rise to power
Fate by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
He works, plots, fights, in rude affairs,
With squires, lords, kings, his craft compares,
Till late he learned, through doubt and fear
Broad England harbored not his peer:
Following the path of fate, the last one accept God’s plan
Biblical allusion
Prove the fact that Cromwell’s fate is already determined
Cromwell’s (man’s) fate is the same fate that God created
Fate by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obeying time, the last to own
The Genius form its cloudy throne.
For the prevision is allied
Unto the thing so signified;
Or say, the foresight that awaits
Is the same Genius that creates.
Invictusby: William Ernest Henley
Latin for unconquerable, taking responsibility for one’s destiny
Believes he has the choice to determine his fate, not a higher power
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
Invictusby: William Ernest Henley
Describes how unfair life has been for him
Being beaten with a club
No matter how unfair life is, he won’t give in to fate
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Invictusby: William Ernest Henley
Throughout the struggle of the years, he is still standing strong
The worst is yet to come
negative connotationsBeyond this place of wrath
and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
Invictusby: William Ernest Henley
1.Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate…
He isn’t afraid to go against God’s will
He determines his future, not fate.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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