time is god

Emilie 2022-10-23 07:16:53

1. The theme of this play is that time is God, and the causal chain composed of time rules people, which is destiny

(Schicksal destiny, in fact, the German word Schicksal comes from schicken, your destiny is what God gave you, which is similar to the destiny and destiny in Chinese)

2. But people have a kind of free will. In the face of fate, they think they can choose to accept or resist. This is the original motivation of the people in the play.

3.01. Jonas, when he faced the suicide of his father, the disappearance of his friends, the fact that his father was a friend who traveled back, the girl he liked was actually his aunt... All kinds of tragic human relations changes, he felt that he could not change anything, All this must be accepted.

3.02 Helpless, when he wanted to accept the arrangement of fate, he was sent to the future again, and found that the tragedy he experienced before was just the beginning of a bigger disaster. He felt he had to change all that and stop the disaster from happening. But because of this eternal truth, Yunas' resistance to his own destiny is only a part of his own destiny. He found that the more he changed, the more he created his own destiny. No matter what he did, he could not break free from his destiny. 's bondage.

3.021 The young Yunas in the second season has always been in the stage of fierce resistance to fate, trying to stop everything, while the middle-aged Yunas is trying to change his fate, but he wants to change what has happened. Stop yourself, stop yourself from being the old Yunas

3.03 The elderly Yunas, also known as Adam, has given up resistance to fate and has chosen to accept it completely.

3. Yunas' experience from youth to middle age and then to old age represents: the process of free people's cognition of the fact that their fate cannot be changed, that is, the paradox presented by the synthesis of 1 and 2

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Beginnings and Endings quotes

  • Investigator Clausen: Expectations lead to disappointment. "Have hope," my mother used to say, "not expectations. You might just be surprised, but not disappointed."