The Man in the High Castle: Pawns of Fate
Does fate or free will determine history? In Phillip K. Dick’s novel, The Man in the High Castle it is evident that fate is what determines the lives and choices for many characters. The novel takes place during 1962, after World War 2. Although, the situation is a little different than what really happened during the war. In Dick’s world, the axis powers, Japan and Germany, won the war and America is under the rule of the Germans and Japanese. Robert Childan, Nobusuke Tagomi, Frank Frink, and his ex-wife Juliana are all victims of circumstance. The characters in A Man in the High Castle are all just pawns of fate.
It is prevalent in the novel that the characters are controlled by fate is when the …show more content…
Frank Frink a Jewish man who is hiding from the dangerous Nazis. He is very talented in crafting things such as decorative pistols and jewelry. Frank uses the I Ching for most of his decisions in The Man in the High Castle. The first instance is directly after he loses his job and returns to his place of employment to collect his belongings from the company’s foreman, Ed McCarthy. While there, McCarthy proposes to Frank that they should go into business together, Frank is wary at first of accepting and decided to consult the I Ching. After asking the book if she should go into the business McCarthy had just suggested the book gives the …show more content…
After spending the night in a motel together, and discussing a book called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Joe proposes that he and Juliana head out on a road trip to meet the author of the book. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a book about an alternate reality where the Nazis lose the war and America is not under Japanese and German rule. Juliana agrees to go on the trip with him, unaware that his true intentions is to kill the author, as he is a hired assassin. Later, in Denver, after a day of shopping, Joe threatens to kill Juliana and tells her about his true intentions. This sends Juliana into a frenzy in which she wounds and kills Joe. This event shows that Juliana is a pawn of fate, because she prevents the assassination of Hawthorne Abendsen, whom she later
Does fate or free will determine history? In Phillip K. Dick’s novel, The Man in the High Castle it is evident that fate is what determines the lives and choices for many characters. The novel takes place during 1962, after World War 2. Although, the situation is a little different than what really happened during the war. In Dick’s world, the axis powers, Japan and Germany, won the war and America is under the rule of the Germans and Japanese. Robert Childan, Nobusuke Tagomi, Frank Frink, and his ex-wife Juliana are all victims of circumstance. The characters in A Man in the High Castle are all just pawns of fate.
It is prevalent in the novel that the characters are controlled by fate is when the …show more content…
Frank Frink a Jewish man who is hiding from the dangerous Nazis. He is very talented in crafting things such as decorative pistols and jewelry. Frank uses the I Ching for most of his decisions in The Man in the High Castle. The first instance is directly after he loses his job and returns to his place of employment to collect his belongings from the company’s foreman, Ed McCarthy. While there, McCarthy proposes to Frank that they should go into business together, Frank is wary at first of accepting and decided to consult the I Ching. After asking the book if she should go into the business McCarthy had just suggested the book gives the …show more content…
After spending the night in a motel together, and discussing a book called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Joe proposes that he and Juliana head out on a road trip to meet the author of the book. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a book about an alternate reality where the Nazis lose the war and America is not under Japanese and German rule. Juliana agrees to go on the trip with him, unaware that his true intentions is to kill the author, as he is a hired assassin. Later, in Denver, after a day of shopping, Joe threatens to kill Juliana and tells her about his true intentions. This sends Juliana into a frenzy in which she wounds and kills Joe. This event shows that Juliana is a pawn of fate, because she prevents the assassination of Hawthorne Abendsen, whom she later