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Gattaca

‘After all, there is no gene for fate.’ Gattaca suggests that we are responsible for our own destiny. Discuss.

The world of Gattaca is one in which one’s fate is seemingly pre-determined by his genes. From the schooling that a person gets, to the type of work that he would get later on in his life, desire seemed to be irrelevant, with the genetic make-up being either his passport to a prosperous life, or his ‘ball and chain’. In such adversity, however, we see Vincent triumph over all the obstacles that having defective genes can bring upon a person, and achieve what everyone believed
was an impossible goal. Gattaca shows that the human spirit is the most essential gene in achieving success.

The world in which Vincent lived was a place where people lived their lives as were pre-destined by their genes. It was a world where people with defective genes or ‘invalids’ were satisfied with living out their lives miserably, content to work as the superior race’s......


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