Фатализм - это философская доктрина, согласно которой все события в мире заранее предопределены и человек не может ничего изменить в своей жизни. Фатализм глубоко проник в мировую культуру и литературу. Известно множество литературных персонажей, которые находятся под влиянием фатализма. Для некоторых авторов, фатализм становится мощным инструментом в создании пронзительных характеристик и интересных сюжетов. Фатализм в романе может сочетаться с различными жанровыми элементами, что позволяет создать разнообразие в целом по сюжету произведения.
One of the classic examples of a fatality character is Tess from Thomas Hardy's “Tess of the d'Urbervilles". In the novel, Tess is consistently presented to the readers as a character that cannot escape her own fate. Hardy uses elements of Tess's personal struggles, such as her position as a lower-class woman in a patriarchal society and her own mistakes, which lead to her historical flaws. Ultimately, Tess's fate is not her own, and she ends her life in utter despair.
Similarly, in “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator Nick Carraway is a character claimed by fate. Nick repeatedly emphasizes the idea that he is unable to change the things that happen around him, which ultimately leads to the destruction of Gatsby's life and the lives of all other important personage in the book.
The fatalist character is often the main influence behind the novel's outcome, leading either to the character's downfall or to the downfall of the people around them. Fatalism and the belief that our fate is predetermined in any way shape our lives, control our actions, and, in our eyes, decreases our ability to take our own chances.
Fatalism plays a huge role in the plot of many famous novels. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, the family is a description of the town's general fatality. Every member of the family is predicted and predetermined, no decision is ever unchangeable, and each successive generation inadvertently mirrors the preceding ones. Ultimately, the family meets its end through the last Aurelian to be born. In the end, the novel teaches us that the most we can do is resist our fate for a moment, but in the end, its preordained destiny will always unfold.
Even Shakespeare's works, well-known tragedy, can be seen as having aspects of fatalism in characters such as Romeo and Juliet. They seemingly suffer at the hands of fate, and their deaths are inevitable, due in part to chance events and the actions of other characters.
In summary, fatalism is an essential aspect of many great literary works. The characters in these pieces are often powerless against the fates which govern their lives and the people around them. The fatality character's psychology is such that he or she succumbs to the inevitable and ultimately meets their downfall. The character's powerlessness and acceptance of the inevitable are portrayed so well in literature that they remain an integral part of the reader’s imagination long after the novel's conclusion.