Determinism vs. free will in "Their Eyes were watching God."

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English

 

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Patricia S

 

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May 28, 2016

 

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Do people really have the capability of making decisions on their own? OR Is life already determined, and whatever we do is (and always was) the only thing that we could have done at that time, conditions being what they were? Given the circumstances in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, I would argue that, while free will does exist, in my view, and a person can choose most of their actions through careful decision making, the main character, Janie, has the majority of her life planned out for her already...
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Whatever Janie does is governed by the laws of cause and effect; every one of her actions has a reaction. In Janie's quest to find herself, she does make some decisions on her own, but her decisions only lead her to her destiny, so, how can we say that Janie really has free will? The truth is that you cannot determine if Janie has free will or not...
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