¶ … control over one's own destiny is an illusion of misconstructed ideals and metaphysical analysis. Beginning with Sigmund Freud's fascination with the power of the unconscious which he explicitly details through his work Dora (1963), the influence that the unconscious has on an individual is explicated and determined to practically guide everything that one does, but without really giving the illusion that one is in control. The unconscious controls the self, but does it define who one is? When there is no sense of control or free will, things fall apart. One wants to know that one can influence the way that one's life turns out, but in reality, a very small number of things are actually under one's control. By attributing all sense of control and destiny to the unconscious, one either loses the definition of who one is as a person, or gives up any sort...
People living during these times had little say over how this radical change would impact their lives. Just as colonization destroyed a way of being for some individuals who no matter how hard they tried could not control what was going around them, the same concept applies to industrialization and the implications that this brought upon all people. As a way of avoiding any change around oneself, one is forced into seclusion and isolation as a means of avoiding the ever-growing change around. This was the case in The Hours (1998) where in order to not get drowned in an existence that seemed to be out of control and out of one's own hands, living reclusively and acknowledging…
