Fate

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Fate

Something that is destined to

happen, that can not ultimately be changed, that you can not escape

Book 1

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Page 13 - Thetis says

‘because your fate is of short span’ and ‘it was a cruel fate under which I

bore you in our house’

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Regarding Achilles

fate to die in battle, showing this has been his fate from birth and it

generally happens. Fate is also normally about your death.

Book 6

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Page 103 – ‘No man will send me down to Hade

before my fated time’

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Hektor accepts and

embraces his fate and for some men it is a guide

Book 9

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Page 143 - Achilles says ‘I have two fates’

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Shows that people may be given options eg in the

case of Achilles die at home with no glory or young at war – but one of them

will always pan out.

Book 16

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Page 264 – ‘Alas that is the fate of Sarpedon...

to be brought down by... Patroklos.’

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The fates are always fulfilled and generally

accepted by men

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Page 270 - ‘Zeus knocked him back’ and ‘It was

Zeus who put the urge in Patroklos’ heart’

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Shows that the Gods can intervene and alter fate

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Page 272 – ‘Then beyond all destiny the Achaeans

were the stronger’

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The fate of one person can be altered by that of

another

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Page 274 – ‘Weeping for its fate’

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Shows that fate will always play out eg

Achillies prayed but Patroklos died anyway

Book 19

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Page 313 - Achilles says ‘Father Zeus and fate’

and ‘they put cruel blindness in my mind’

Fate

can also be described as a being and is always cruel