At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks towards the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate.
By contrast, the infant's need for protection in a dangerous and uncertain world, which continues into adulthood "permanently sustained by fear of the superior power of Fate" (p. 20), is strong enough to explain religion as a wish-fulfilling projection (illusion) of a divine Father who is both protective and demanding.
The production is courageous, too, in depicting an operation that goes badly wrong and the desperation of a group of soldiers, both veterans and raw conscripts, who feel they have been abandoned to their fate by their superiors when they are told over the radio to improvise as best they can to make their escape.
This institution is a universal nightmare created out of the fear we all have of turning our fate over to strangers whose superior knowledge we have to take on faith.
We look the other way from the daily reports of destruction of our world by those who are in a position of superior responsibility; the master controllers of our fates are those who determine how we live our lives.
"Disposable Heroes" is an anti-war song about a young soldier whose fate is controlled by his superiors.
Franz Rademacher, recently appointed head of the Jewish Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, forwarded on 3 June to his superior, the diplomat Martin Luther, a memorandum on the fate of the Jews.
Djokovic was superior in every way and Roddick seemed resigned to his fate in the last few games of the second set.
His first stage work, "Wozzeck", depicts the grim fate of a soldier, a helpless Untermensch treated as an object by his superiors and trapped by poverty and ignorance.
By a curious twist of fate, DeHaan will once again follow in the footsteps of James Franco, who in 2001 portrayed Dean in a superior telepic which helped give the actor an early career boost.
