Choices In Shakespeare's In The Time Of The Butterflies

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For better or worse, the choices that people make define them. Choosing to look or move beyond fear, anger, loss, circumstance, or expectations can be the hardest decisions of all, and more often that not that is the choice people refuse to make.
In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies, Minerva Mirabal chooses to rise above her pain and doubt to become the symbol of the revolution. Although her decision causes her pain, she makes the choice because she acknowledges that there is something greater than her fears. Similary, Othello from William Shakespeare’s play, Othello, chooses to marry Desdemona, a white woman, even though it defies societal expectations on race, acknowledging that happiness is greater than the emptiness the comes with following societial expecations for the sake of fitting in. Rufsing to let others define them, Sula Peace and Hester Prynne from Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, do not let convent rule their lives. Instead, they both chase happiness, at great to their standings in …show more content…
Looking at other people’s choices, those seemingly impossible decision, I learned to find strength in my pain. I choose these poems to reflect the decision I made. It does not come all at once, it is hardly ever that easy, that black and white, but overtime you learn to accept your defeats with “grace of woman, not the grief of a child” and “you learn” (Shoftstall) and choose to “rise up from a past rooted in pain,” (Angelou) even if you feel “alone with everybody” (Bukowski). I grew like a “rose that grew from concrete” (Shakur) even when “I fear failure” (Colonna) filled with an overwhelming sense of doubt. But, after all of this time, I learned from a very wise ceramist and a wonderful poet, “If while I think on thee, dear friend/All losses are restor’d and sorrows end”
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