Essays / I NEED AN OPENING STATEMENT on essay: challenging fate [3]

I need suggestions for an opening statement, leading in as a broad statement, for an essay that has this topic:

Write an essay about what happens when someone tries to challenge or interfere with his or her fate.

Grammar, Usage / Marcus Brutus is a tragic hero "opening statement" trouble again. HELP? [2]

I need an opening statement for an essay that is supposed to prove how Marcus Brutus is a tragic hero in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.

It just needs to be a broad idea that relates to "tragic heroes."

Any ideas???