Fate And Heroism Essay

Fate, Hope, and Heroism. I have already written about that topic with the Iliad and The Man in the Water, now I am here to write about those three themes as it applies to The Quest for the Golden Fleece and Macbeth by Shakespeare. It just goes to show that another two great stories have those themes very prevalent within them. Those themes could be applied to almost all of the stories that we have read this year. I feel like they are some of the most common themes throughout time.
Fate:
Fate, that theme can be seen in both stories. Firstly in The Quest for the Golden Fleece there is fate. The fate that the King of Colich would reign for only as long as he possessed the fleece. It was fate that saved the young sailors from Colich when the Argonauts were found them. During the story fate was helped along by the gods a lot. For example Hera wanted to see Jason succeed, and so she gave him advice with do different things. She also helped fate along when she had Eros shoot a love arrow at Medea’s heart. There are plenty more examples, so much so that I could almost write a paper about fate in The Quest for the Golden Fleece, but I must get moving onto the next subject. Fate, that was also prevalent in Macbeth by Shakespeare. It might not have been as prevalent as it was in The Quest for the Golden Fleece, …show more content…
For most of the play it was just Macbeth working towards his own personal gain. There are few examples, the first is when was Macbeth at war, from what I read he seemed like a heroic guy. He fought off the Thane of Cawdor who attempted to succeed from Scotland. That was about it for Macbeth. Then towards the end of the play there were glimmers of heroism. There was Macduff fighting Macbeth to avenge the death of his wife and children. Then there was all of Siward’s men fighting to get rid of the evil tyrant Macbeth. , beyond those few things there were no more acts of heroism during the entire