“Fate's Puppetry” is a project by Kenneth Meyerson on The Odyssey; by Homer. This project was designed to better understand the powerful role of fate in the world and how humans seem to be subject to fate. In the story of The Odyssey, the gods are unaffected by fate and witness it. Some gods actively try to help destined humanity; however, the god's help is often in vain. What is fate and how does fate affect human life? Furthermore, what effect do gods have on human destiny? Destiny is defined in several dictionaries as the force or principle believed to predetermine events, the consequence or final result of an action taken, or inevitable death. In the context of this article, destiny is the outline or plot of a person or character's life. Destiny is present from the beginning to the end of time, and "time" for a human being begins with an individual's earliest memories and ends with their last breath and conscious thought or observation. The gods do not have complete control over mortals or their destiny, as they cannot dictate the choices mortals make. Instead, as spectators and overseers, the gods can issue warnings or imitate decisions intended to influence others, but they cannot change fate single-handedly. The mortal individual must ultimately make choices that alter his destiny and that of others. The characters in The Odyssey make choices in every moment, just like people do today. For every choice made, there is a reaction and an outcome that responds to the choice made. This triggers the endless chain of actions-reactions within an individual’s “time.” Telemakhos describes Penelope's suitors as "[coming] / to slaughter my flocks and my black cattle"; » by choice and salt...... middle of paper ......dependence and power. Modern man tries to think that the world revolves around him and that all choices are made to bring about change that only concerns him. Einstein's theory of relativity is an interpretation of how humans seek independence of time and space through understanding, but Einstein also said that there will never be enough satisfactory answers and quantifiable for humans, and that man must therefore always be able to return to basic philosophy. for non-quantifiable responses. Works Cited “Albert Einstein”. Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011. Web. November 20, 2011. Homer and Robert Fitzgerald. The Odyssey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Print. O brother, where art thou. Real. Joel Coen. Prod. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Success, 2001. DVD.