Fate And Coincidence In The Wonder Of The World

As David Lindsay-Abaire wrote this play “Wonder of the World”, that presents an unanswered question about a person’s life. The story opens up with a wife, Cass Harris, leaving her husband, Kip Harris, to find herself. Thus, Cass mind is tested to see whether the love of a person's life is either fate or coincidence. Fate can be described as something in which is somehow definitely predetermined. Some say things happen for a reason and at times people cannot control how things go. Were coincidence is said to be a remarkable event that happens out of the blue without any connection to that something. In this paper, Cass’s ideas on fate and coincidence, thoughts on Cass and Kip meeting (either fate or coincidence) and, Cass meeting Captain Mike (being fate or coincidence) is tested to see Cass’s inner thoughts.

Cass Harris, a woman who wakes up one day and realizes that the last seven years of her life were a miserable mistake. Believing that her fate is different from the overall coincidences that decided her life. This is seen when Cass said, “ I’m a new person today. I’m happy and bubbly. I’m a tall glass of sparkling
A marriage of seven years goes down the drain when Cass begins to question their life together and if them meeting is just a coincidence--not fate! This is shown when Cass says, “ I agreed to marry you based on what I knew to be true. Kip equals X. X will make me happy. Everything added up. Seven years later I find out you’re not X at all, you’re Z. And if you’re Z, then I did the math wrong. Z is no good. I would never have said yes to Z.” (1.1). Through this math explanation, it is seen that Cass, being a math teacher, considers many things through math equations and that she is questioning not only herself but how she believes love works between being fated for each other or just a