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Carrie Bradshaw noted in her final lines of Sex and the City that there are, "Those that bring you far from where you started." That is, when destiny takes hold it carries you far from where you thought that you would be. This idea comes is a common theme within television, film, and literature. This concept of destiny has roots in Virgil's The Aeneid. When following Aeneas, "the pious Roman superstar," through The Aeneid, we find that in following what the gods tell him his destiny is Aeneas is taken further than he ever anticipated and has to make huge sacrifices. As "The Economist" dated October 23, 2001 notes, Aeneas, "always seems, at least psychologically, to be carrying a huge bag of household gods and an aged father."
The film White Noise gives us an understanding of the problems that meddling in the affairs of another level of existence can cause. Juno is portrayed in Virgil's epic as a cruel goddess who meddles with humans in order to get her way. Juno's attempts to......

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