Picture yourself walking down the sidewalk minding your own business, when out of nowhere a car whizzes past you barely skimming the tip of your toe. Do you look up and thank God, or do you refer back to Karma? Do you think it just wasn’t your time to die and fate had other plans for you, or could it possibly be that if you didn’t stop to admire the sun setting you would have been laying on the road flat as a pancake? The right time and the right place. In The House of the Deaf Man by Peter Krištúfek, the concept of fate comes into play in numerous scenes exploring these many different outcomes of what it means to leave it in fate’s hands. While reading this novel, the use of fate leads to the questions: are we responsible for where we end
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In an article titled, The Interactive Effect Of Beliefs In Malleable Fate And Fateful Predictions On Choice, we are given a concrete description of how fate plays a part in peoples’ lives. “We seek to start filling this gap in the context of indulgent versus virtuous choice. In particular, we posit that people who believe in fate have an implicit or lay theory about the nature of fate, such that some consider their fate to be fixed and preordained, whereas others believe that their fate is malleable and can be changed. Importantly, we propose that the interaction between consumers’ implicit theory of fate and fateful predictions has a systematic effect on subsequent decision making” (1139). Throughout The House of the Deaf Man, Adam brings up this notion of fate in order to make sense of specific outcomes. He deciphers between if fate is fixed or malleable depending on the situation, although he does it in quite unusual …show more content…
They are exploited through different outcomes on life’s experiences such as death resulting in what it means to leave it in fate’s hands. While reading this novel I developed a great sense of the questions of are we responsible for where we end up, as in is our actions what correlate to our consequences or do we have no say in the matter and that it is up to fate. Next time something drastic happens to you, are you more likely to decide that this is what fate wants or do you believe you have a choice in the
In an article titled, The Interactive Effect Of Beliefs In Malleable Fate And Fateful Predictions On Choice, we are given a concrete description of how fate plays a part in peoples’ lives. “We seek to start filling this gap in the context of indulgent versus virtuous choice. In particular, we posit that people who believe in fate have an implicit or lay theory about the nature of fate, such that some consider their fate to be fixed and preordained, whereas others believe that their fate is malleable and can be changed. Importantly, we propose that the interaction between consumers’ implicit theory of fate and fateful predictions has a systematic effect on subsequent decision making” (1139). Throughout The House of the Deaf Man, Adam brings up this notion of fate in order to make sense of specific outcomes. He deciphers between if fate is fixed or malleable depending on the situation, although he does it in quite unusual …show more content…
They are exploited through different outcomes on life’s experiences such as death resulting in what it means to leave it in fate’s hands. While reading this novel I developed a great sense of the questions of are we responsible for where we end up, as in is our actions what correlate to our consequences or do we have no say in the matter and that it is up to fate. Next time something drastic happens to you, are you more likely to decide that this is what fate wants or do you believe you have a choice in the