Blog 5

Free will is subject quite unique to humans, unlike our animal counterparts who having be doing what ever they want since their beginning, humans have always been acting under the will of society or the will of God, or anyone else's than their own. Recently, though humanity has begun to embrace the choice of free will and started doing things for themselves, such as the Russian people's uprising in 1917, who broke out from under the will of the domineering bourgeoisie. Free will is also a subject widely used in literature.In literature such as The Awakening, free will is shown through Edna as she leaves the life she was unhappy with and went to one she was contempt with, ignoring society's judgement throughout. Another example is the Narrator in The Invisible Man who fights society's expectations of him and goes underground to truly discover himself. Free will is also a concept still relevant today as women is Muslim cultures are not acting upon their own free will, they wear body covering dresses called burquas, some women hate these burquas but do to their religion they have to wear them. This is just one example out of many in today's world of free will being oppressed.

In my personal opinion free will is great, within reason of course. I mean if a person wants be president or wants to protest the president,it doesn't matter, all power to them, but if a person wants to go around killing people in the name of their cult like Charles Manson then that's where I'll have to draw the line. I believe that free will is a great concept but when we take too much advantage of free will that's how we end up with Charles Manson's, Bernie Madoff's, and John Dillinger's. So my overall opinion when it comes to free will would be it's great thing, but we all know what they say about too much of a good thing.