Peace is not peppered with moments of violence, rather violence is lightly salted with the taste of peace. Dodge, Duck. Run for cover. Wave that once-white flag of history. However passionately humanity gropes at peace, our fate is to succumb to the essential human tendency towards violence. These insubstantial wisps of peace signal a temporary shift in understanding that allows people to realize that the only free will they have is the ability to choose whether or not to accept their fate. The stories of “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” “Oedipus Rex,” “Othello,” and “The Dumb Waiter,” lay out these multi’faceted paths of understanding, and pave them with humanity’s different perceptions of reality, all ultimately ending in fated tragedy.
1. THEME-violence
a. Understanding/acceptance of fate signals essential human tendency towards violence
i. No separation between animals(Othello) except that we kill not out of necessity –worse than animals.
b. Ppl try to avoid or question their fate, but the shift in understanding/situation leads them to understand that they can’t avoid their fate.
i. Duality of understanding/different levels.
1. 1st-understanding of situation
2. 2nd-understanding that you can’t avoid your fate
a. one type of understanding leads to the other
c. relation to present day
i. wars
ii. ex:use “the dumb waiter”- more present day.
1. Shows today’s common mindset
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