Fate
The other side of free will, typically seen as its antagonist, is the notion of fate, or the design of events by powers external to the person acted upon by said events. An example of Borges' treatment of fate is the story The Garden of Forking Paths, where all the seemingly unrelated events of Yu Tsun's life - his ancestor's manuscript, his being chased by Captain Madden, the loitering boys directing him to Dr. Alberts house - apparently converge upon a single purpose: the murder of Dr. Albert and consequent postponing of an Allied strike. Like the book of Yu Tsun's ancestor, the events of the story appear to have the organization of a riddle, the inevitable answer to which is the murder of Dr. Albert by Yu Tsun (126-7). Against such implications, did Yu Tsun still have a measure of freedom and agency in the murder?