Bluebeard vs. Fate

Bluebeardnoun

The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. - Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.

Bluebeardnoun

(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience

Bluebeard

(French: Barbe bleue, [baʁbə blø]) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors.

Fatenoun

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

Fatenoun

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

Fatenoun

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

Fatenoun

(mythology) lang=en (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Fateverb

(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

Fatenoun

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Fatenoun

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

Fatenoun

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

Fatenoun

The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

Fatenoun

an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

Fatenoun

the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman);

Fatenoun

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

Fateverb

decree or designate beforehand;