Sears, "Freedom Isn't Free: Free Will in La vida es sueño Revisited"

One Stop Shopping at Sears?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/02/one_stop_shopping_at_sears.html

Do you think that de propia voluntad es el unico forma when shopping at Sears?

"Once everyone makes the 'right' choice, once they all exercise free will, rather than freedom, the rebel soldier is a threat to the 'right' order, and rebellion is treason" (Sears).

Segismundo’s Religion vs. Basilio’s Astrology

“Basilio also has his faithful follower Clotaldo instruct Segismundo in ‘sciencas,’ but of a far different kind than the ‘estudios’ of which the king himself is master: ‘en la ley le ha instruido/ catolica’ (in Catholic law/ he has instructed him) (757-58). Thus, if only in embryonic form, Segismundo is in possession of a kind of knowledge that outranks his father’s astrological science” (Sears 282).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/03/segismundos_religion_vs_basili.html

“Spanish, unlike English, has two words for the general concept of will: albedrío and voluntad, both of which refer to faculties of the mind and heart as they were envisioned dating back to classical times…Albedrío is allied more closely with judging the relative value of an action, whether by reason or emotion, and voluntad is a more elementary impulse toward or away from something.”
-From Theresa Ann Sears’s “Freedom Isn’t Free: Free Will in 'La vida es sueño' Revisited"

Sorry! Here is the link: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/03/its_too_complex_for_me.html

It's Not The Sears Tower
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/03/its-not-the-sears-tower.html

"It is this "hacer bien" that becomes the condition of free will: Segismundo must learn that he is not free to do whatever he chooses

free will vs. freedom

"Every woman he sees, he wants, and he scatters commands without regard to their appropriateness" (Sears 3)
"Basilio, in other words, should have known that to raise a man in savage conditions will make of him a savage, for he will know nothing else." (Sears 4)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/03/i-am-told-i-am.html

Once again, my comment didn't post the first time around. Click my name and you'll figure out why "Freedom isn't Free" in Life is a Dream.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/QuinnKerno/2009/03/freedom_fate.html

"If free will argues that those who possess it 'do not have to make the choices they do; they have the ability[...] to choose otherwise" (Double 12).