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In sixteen pages this paper analyzes writings by Plato, Aristotle, Pico, Machiavelli, Sartre, Freud, and Kane as well as William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Jean Racine’s Phédre in order to determine how free will is treated in Henrik Ibsen’s social drama A Doll’s House, with a categorization of the play as an example of either determinism, compatibilist, or libertarian also included. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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they are controlled by outside forces. When an individual confidently proclaims, I am the master of my own destiny, this implies that nothing and no one but the persons
choices control which life path is taken. But is that accurate? Philosophers have been debating the existence of free will for centuries, which states that only human beings
through their intellect control their actions and by the decisions they make. In free will, there is no God, higher power, or past influences upon choices. Everything exists
within the here and now, and once a choice is made, whatever happens as a result is the individuals responsibility. William Shakespeares tragedy Hamlet, would appear to be an
example of free will because it was Prince Hamlet of Denmarks own calculated scheme to avenge his fathers murder and expose the murder conspiracy of his uncle and new stepfather
King Claudius. Hamlets apparent exercise of free will results in the deaths not only of Claudius, but also of practically everyone close to him. However, his plan was
not executed until his encounter with his fathers ghost in Act I, Scene V. This suggests that something other than Hamlets will is responsible for the subsequent chain of
events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how does this impact determinism or the long-held view
that no act in life is ever truly free because it has already been determined by some external entity? Determinism is the law of cause and effect, and according
to early theologians like Thomas Aquinas, the first cause is God because He is the Creator of the cosmos and everything residing in it. Furthermore, determinism is the belief
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