Wednesday, May 12, 2010

What is the literary term to describe a character who has knowledge to future but has no control over it?

What is the literary term to describe a character who has knowledge to future (often his own fate or a catastrophic event), but has no or little control over it?What is the literary term to describe a character who has knowledge to future but has no control over it?
a Cassandra





she was the oracle that no one believed, even though she was always right





here is the brainiac answer:





The Cassandra metaphor (variously labelled the Cassandra 'syndrome', 'complex', 'phenomenon', 'predicament', 'dilemma', or 'curse'), is a term applied in situations in which valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.What is the literary term to describe a character who has knowledge to future but has no control over it?
I do respect your question and the answers you have received. Knowledge to future were the exact directive words you chose. but has no or little control over it and my answer would be; because they do not know who they should be speaking with. I know of many intersessions that are available for the purpose of communication with future.
A man who knows the future like Nostradamus prophecise and therefore, is prophetic.


clairvoyance is through vision


clairaudience is through hearing


claircognition is through cognition


nacromancy is through spirits


prophesy is when prophetic


Soothsayer foresee


An oracle forewarns


An astrologer predicts


A magician conjures


A weatherman forecast


A dreamer dreams


A visionery visualises


A gambler guess


A houswife expects


A strategist anticipates


A stockmarketeer speculates.


A layman supposes.
clairvoyant
prophet?

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