A Twist of Fate

"It was the will of Zeus, she said: Europa was to be an Asian girl carried off by a stranger"- Calasso pg. 5





In mythology, fate is inescapable. Many times it is gods like Zeus who say how things are going to be. Even more powerful are the actual three Fates (see above picture) who decide life- and- death. We discussed fate a great deal this last lecture, using stories such as Oedipus and how he fuflilled the prophecy that he would kill his father and have intimate relations with his mother despite him doing everything in his power to avoid it.

It is this moment, when one meets his or her fate, that they go through their transformation, or their final phase. However, long before that phase is the seperation. That is where I am now in The Magus. Nick, a very unlikable character best known to readers as a bit of a womanizer, recieved a teaching post in Greece. This is where he will enter his initiation, and as inevitable as fate, a transformation.