Friday, October 9, 2026

The monkey's paw- fate as necessity


Read this short story today and had a long engaging discussion on the story. It is short and early to read. Written in 1902, the book still deals with the dilemmas created the conceptualization of fate. Genuine free will is at the heart of the matter asking the question - do we really have the freedom to choose. Though a short story, it raises many questions related to the way we perceive events of life incomparison to the inanimate things around us.