Bluebeard vs. Fate — What's the Difference?

"Bluebeard" (French: Barbe bleue, [baʁbə blø]) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of one wife to avoid the fate of her predecessors.

The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events

A man who first marries and then murders one wife after another.

The inevitable events predestined by this force

The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. - Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.

A final result or consequence; an outcome

(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience

An unfavorable outcome in life; doom or death

Fates Greek & Roman Mythology The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who control human destiny. Used with the.

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

(mythology) Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

(biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.

(embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint

(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.

The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.

The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future

The ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman);

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

Decree or designate beforehand;