Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
             Like a Colossus; and we petty men
             Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
             To find ourselves dishonorable graves
             Men at some time are masters of their fates:
             The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
             But in ourselves, that we are underlings
             This familiar quotation was taken from the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Although this quote is over 400 years old I agree with the author when he writes, "Men at some time are masters of their fates". This quotation suggests that people have a fate chosen for them but they can do certain things to modify that chosen fate. This is why I think that people, except when other wills are involved, are masters of their own fate.
             Others might say that Shakespeare is wrong and that people have no power over their own fates. They might take this position because they think that people, like the character Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart, do not have control over their fates because they might say that Okonkwo did not have control over his exile. These people are wrong because as we can see through literature, philosophy and from a myriad of other sources, people actually control their own fate. The first of these sources I have already mentioned, and that is William Shakespeare. In the section from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar he wrote that people have control over their own fate by telling you directly. In the play Caesar says this because he fought to gain control of Rome and in the end his discipline and hard worked paid off because he became the ruler of Rome. Similar examples are found in many other literary pieces.
             Another piece of literature where one can find an example of a person suggesting that people control their own fates is in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. In the book Unoka, Okonkwo's father, is complaining because he ...