“Fate's Puppetry” is a project by Kenneth Meyerson on the Odyssey; from Homer. This project was designed to provide a better understanding of the powerful role of fate in the world and how humans appear to be subject to fate. In the story of the Odyssey, the gods are not influenced by fate and are witnesses to it. Some gods are actively trying to help doomed humanity; however, God's help is often useless. What is destiny and how does destiny affect human life? Furthermore, what effect do the gods have on human destiny? Fate is defined in multiple dictionaries as the force or principle that is believed to predetermine events, a consequence or end result of an action taken, or inevitable death. In the context of this article, destiny is the pattern 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 first memories and ends with his or her last breath and conscious thought or observation. The gods do not have complete control over mortals and the fates of mortals, as the gods cannot dictate the choices mortals make. Instead, as spectators and overseers, the gods can issue warnings or emulate decisions designed to influence others, but they cannot change fate on their own. The mortal individual must ultimately make choices that alter his or her destiny and that of others. The characters in the Odyssey make choices all the time, just as individuals do today. For every choice made, there is a reaction and an outcome that responds to the choice made. This triggers the infinite chain of actions-reactions within the individual's “time”. Telemachus describes Penelope's suitors as: "[coming] / to slaughter my flocks and my black cattle"; by choice and selection... 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 only for him. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is an interpretation of how humans seek independence from time and space through understanding, but Einstein also said that there will never be enough satisfactory answers for humans that are quantifiable, and therefore man must always be able to look back to basic philosophy for unquantifiable answers. Works Cited "Albert Einstein". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011. Web. 20 November 2011. .Homer and Robert Fitzgerald. The Odyssey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Print.O Brother, where art thou. Director Joel Coen. prod. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Success, 2001. DVD.