Destiny essay
Valencia McDonald Mrs. Wedgeworth
English 2 Pre-AP 1214.8
30 September 2013
Choose Destiny
I believe that you can control your destiny because you can decide where
life takes you and what your future will look like. You are your own person and
you make your own decisions. When controlling your own destiny the
outcome can be risky, meaning it can be great or bad. But if you control it the
right way then your destiny will turn out successful.
After reading the Count of Monte Cristo I’ve realized that Edmund Dantes
controls his destiny. "Come now, "he [Danglars] said. Have you anything to fear?
It seems to me, on the contrary, that everything is working out as you would
wish."
"That is precisely what terrifies me," said Dantès. "I cannot think that man is
meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an
enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and, in
truth, I do not know what I have done to deserve the good fortune of becoming
Mercédès ' husband." In this quote Edmund is engaged to Mercedes but
does not believe he is worthy enough but his destiny brought him to her and he
can choose to be happy and marry her.
In the poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost it is told that the man
chooses his own destiny. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one
less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” When the man in this
poem choose the other road, he controlled what could lead to his destiny in the
future because it could possibly turn out to have promising riches at the end of the
road. And the only one who will know about the riches will be the man who
controlled his destiny and took the chance. I believe Robert Frost wanted the man
to control his future and to take the wilderness looking type of road and not
follow others but be the example.
In all my
English 2 Pre-AP 1214.8
30 September 2013
Choose Destiny
I believe that you can control your destiny because you can decide where
life takes you and what your future will look like. You are your own person and
you make your own decisions. When controlling your own destiny the
outcome can be risky, meaning it can be great or bad. But if you control it the
right way then your destiny will turn out successful.
After reading the Count of Monte Cristo I’ve realized that Edmund Dantes
controls his destiny. "Come now, "he [Danglars] said. Have you anything to fear?
It seems to me, on the contrary, that everything is working out as you would
wish."
"That is precisely what terrifies me," said Dantès. "I cannot think that man is
meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an
enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and, in
truth, I do not know what I have done to deserve the good fortune of becoming
Mercédès ' husband." In this quote Edmund is engaged to Mercedes but
does not believe he is worthy enough but his destiny brought him to her and he
can choose to be happy and marry her.
In the poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost it is told that the man
chooses his own destiny. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one
less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” When the man in this
poem choose the other road, he controlled what could lead to his destiny in the
future because it could possibly turn out to have promising riches at the end of the
road. And the only one who will know about the riches will be the man who
controlled his destiny and took the chance. I believe Robert Frost wanted the man
to control his future and to take the wilderness looking type of road and not
follow others but be the example.
In all my
Cited: 1. Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. Trans. George Stade. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2001. Print.