Texts: The Iliad by Homer, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, The Aeneid by Virgil, Beowulf, The Inferno by Dante, medieval romance, Hamlet by WIlliam Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by Cervantes Several of the texts in this course discuss the conflict between fate and free will. Choose two of the texts we have read and compare and contrast how the main characters of each grapple with their limited free will.

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.

i taught my students how to divide decimal numbers today.

if he had known that it would've hurt, he wouldn't have said it.

the man had dug a hole earlier for his plant he wanted to grow.