Themes -- Destiny
Destiny: or fate, or necessity; both as it may be self-energized or seen as an external force in control of the self.
Letter 2.5
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("Fixed as fate")
Letter 4.7
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("Cannot begin life anew")
Letter 4.9
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("Fate")
1.1.3
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("His destined successor")
1.1.3
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("Something better -- their child") [1831 only]
1.1.6
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("Destiny")
1.1.7
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("Fatal impulse")
1.1.10
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("The guardian angel of my life") [1831 only]
1.2.1
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("An omen")
1.2.4
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("The Angel of Destruction") [1831 only]
1.2.7
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("The words of fate")
1.2.8
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("Destiny")
1.3.3
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("I was led to examine the cause ... and forced")
1.3.5
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("Eight feet in height")
1.3.6
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("I seemed to have lost")
1.3.7
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("Had taken an irresistable hold of my imagination")
1.4.2
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("Unable ... unable")
1.4.4
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("With my eyes fixed on a coach")
1.6.6
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("I was destined")
1.6.8
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("Forced to destroy")
1.7.1
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("It was to be decided")
1.7.10
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("Make others so")
1.7.10
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("Inexorable fate") [1831 only]
2.1.2
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("That could not be")
2.2.5
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("I will not be tempted")
2.4.6
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("Arbiters of my future destiny")
2.4.7
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("The past was blotted from my memory")
2.5.5
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("Doomed to waste his powers for ... few")
2.7.5
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("Which would decide my fate")
3.1.3
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("My slavery")
3.2.5
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("Ascertain my fate")
3.3.3
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("I am your master")
3.3.4
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("Revenge remains")
3.3.5
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("That then was the period")
3.3.7
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("I did not ... avert it")
3.3.9
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("My heart ... escape")
3.4.5
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("It never presented itself ... reality")
3.4.9
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("Some destiny")
3.4.9
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("My destiny ... close")
3.5.4
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("Your own free choice")
3.5.5
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("Sentence")
3.5.5
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("The apple had already been eaten")
3.5.7
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("The threatened fate as unavoidable")
3.5.9
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("To fulfill my wishes and my destiny")
3.6.5
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("Liberty had been a useless gift")
3.7.1
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("Voluntary thought")
3.7.1
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("It modelled my feelings")
3.7.3
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("I was cursed by some devil ... my eternal hell")
3.7.4
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("The mechanical impulse")
Walton 3
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("Destined for some great enterprise")
Walton 3
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("A high destiny seemed to bear me on")
Walton 4
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("Such is not my destiny")
Walton 5
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("September 2d")
Walton 5
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("The tenderest compassion")
Walton 9
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("Mine is assigned to me by heaven")
Walton 12
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("I shut my eyes involuntarily")
Walton 14
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("I had no choice but to adapt my nature")
