The Barrier of Actions Humans aren’t made perfectly as they all have something they hold dear which they never wish to forfeit based on their rationality(the entity that limits oneself); as a result, those same naive lunatics pretend, hide the truth, and lie. When they ponder losing that companion, they fall victim to anxiety while others bury their apprehensions in the deepest of dark caves never to be heard from again. Furthermore, those that obey their instinct and believe in the divinity of fear are limiting themselves and others with their true capabilities. Specifically, those that neglect their anguish are at the height of their longevity. Correspondingly, the 18th-century German author Richter regards misery as a phase: at first one …show more content…
By illustrating the luminous truths to oneself, one shall rise in sovereignty. As an illustration, Richter is shown welcoming his falsehoods when he adds,“ [...] and a courageous person afterword”. To put manners in other means, the author believes that after encountering one’s uneasiness, they become audacious yet traumatized of those fairy tales. Despite his sayings, naivete strikes again as one witnesses the author sealed away in an endless cave along with his honesty. Furthermore, those with the presence of fear shall have it backfire on them. To demonstrate, in the visual novel Steins;Gate, a mad scientist named Rintaro Okabe attends a conference on the manners of time travel; however, he finds the dead body of a neuroscience researcher named Kurisu Makise. Bewildered by the recent events, Okabe sends a text message about the incident to his partner in crime Daru. He later found out Kurisu is alive and that message arrived before he sent it. Joined by Kurisu, the lab members create a way to time travel with the use of cell-phone operated microwave to send text messages along with memories back in time; however, an organization named SERN learns of the time machine and sends people to retrieve it killing Mayuri(Okabe’s close friend) in the process. For fear that he may become abandoned by all, Okabe goes back in time multiple times to prevent Mayuri's death, but fails each time. With this in mind, lying to oneself can prove fatal. One need not cower ordinary changes as death; moreover, loneliness and rejection is proof of diligence and transcendence. In order to become a divine being, one must sacrifice others along with their mind and soul for the greater good of humanity. Okabe had the whole universe in his hands, but he simply wasted his powers of time travel on the emotions and lives of others; the ignorance of Okabe’s behavior foolishly depicts the actions of any other
Any action predicated on one character’s withholding of information could have been remedied by sharing the information. This undeniable truth proves that the curiosity of humanity can lead to destruction and anguish. The playwright’s motive is for the audience to understand this lesson and rid themselves of secrecy and unhelpful curiosity. The playwright’s parables are aimed to not only enlighten, but to change perspective of the audience, ultimately leading to the improvement of humanity.
The time period this work takes place in is a very gloomy and frightening time. He wakes up in a dark place by himself and in fear, which makes things worse. A common theme we can relate this dark place to is when we fall off of the path of God. Since God represents all things good, the dark is the exact opposite. Since everything is not so clear in the wood he his describing, the path back to God is even more difficult to attain.
And indeed, suffering, lack of safety, is unavoidable, and also necessary for some things. "When I was downstairs before, on my way here, listening to that woman sing, it struck me all of a sudden how much suffering she must have had to go through. It's repulsive to think you have to suffer that much" (65). But we do. Everyone does. In fact, "There's no way not to suffer" (65). We are never safe from it.
While their work was published in their lifetimes, they could never have known that their stories would progress around the globe, and into the mind of every child’s head. as a form of entertainment. Almost every person in the world has heard at least one of the works of the Grimm brothers, and like Poe said. this kind of recognition can only happen after you are dead. ‘In the construction of plot, for example, in fictitious literature.
Thinkers and philosophers have been pondering misery since the dawn of civilization. At the dawn of humanity, humans existed to survive and reproduce; every day was a struggle. However, with the advent of civilization, humanity has moved further and further away from its original evolutionary drives, and it can be argued by secular thinkers that humans exist now to find happiness. Therefore, misery can be seen as the biggest obstacle to human happiness, yet misery itself is a mystery to many. Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto and Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents put forth the authors’ opinions on the origins of mortal misery, and suggest methods to solve the problem of misery. Although the two have differing views, both see
Despite its prevalence, suffering is always seen an intrusion, a personal attack on its victims. However, without its presence, there would never be anyway to differentiate between happiness and sadness, nor good and evil. It is encoded into the daily lives people lead, and cannot be avoided, much like the prophecies described in Antigone. Upon finding out that he’d murdered his father and married his mother,
Perhaps one of the most profound needs of humans is having control. Control gives not only satisfaction but also a sense of relief that things are going to go the way one has planned. In the evolutionary perspective, having a control for one’s environment results to better survivability. The loss of control on the other hand provides a cramped stress to gain control. It proves to be one of the needs that certainly ranks in the top of the hierarchy. Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, and Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, shows the human struggle for control and what they would do to grasp it. Both literary pieces show that inclination towards having control. Humans, although impossible, have an inner desire to control everything.
In our lives, we have had to learn how to handle people’s expectations of what we should be. Learning how to put yourself and your own well-being before other people’s demands. Often we are unable to meet the demands that people have set for us, which often creates the feeling of hopelessness because we could not do what they’ve wanted. This begins the downfall of our emotions, creating feelings that we aren’t good enough for the world anymore. Our bodies are set to put our self-preservation before trying to meet people’s demands, but their demands often are what affects our self-preservation. In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, we get examples of this when it comes to one of the main characters, Willy Loman. Throughout the book, we watch and learn about how Willy doesn’t care about his self-preservation because he believes that there isn't anything positive in his life anymore and he doesn’t feel like he should be there. Why does Willy decide to give up? Well as the story goes on, all the pieces begin to come together.
Edward Hoagland, the author of Heaven and Nature, writes about suicide and how one’s mental stability can affect her death. The author writes, “the deed [suicide] can be… plainly insane,” (508-9). Through various claims, Hoagland argues that one will only commit suicide if she is mentally unstable. Hoagland discusses that in order to live life, one must create a sense of identity of themselves and with her environment, “life is a matter of cultivating the six senses, and an equilibrium with nature,” (508). The author uses the term equilibrium to suggest that life requires stability, which is a result of a calm state of mind. The primary argumentation type throughout Heaven and Nature is pathos; he elaborates on his own beliefs and emotions,
I think of the mountain called ‘White Rocks Lie Above In a Compact Cluster’ as it were my own grandmother. I recall stories of how it once was at that mountain. The stories told to me were like arrows. Elsewhere, hearing that mountains name, I see it. Its name is like a picture. Stories go to work on you like arrows. Stories make you live right. Stories make you replace yourself. (38)
Most works of literature derive the basis of their meaning from a moment of time of the respective author that directly relates to situations that influence him as a person. Because Hans Christian Andersen encountered first-hand the struggles of an impoverished lifestyle in infancy, he expresses the problems associated with life in his short fairytale The Stead Fast Tin Soldier. In order to elicit to a posterity that would not understand otherwise the perseverance and struggles that accompany success, he uses the fairytale as a mechanism for persuasion. When composing a piece of literature for the purpose of elucidating an emotion, making analysis, or, as in the case of The Steadfast Tin Soldier, to persuade, an author uses many tools of his arsenal, known in its generic collective as rhetoric. In order to achieve what he desires in this piece of work, a story that encourages personal individuality, drive, and the pursuit of self-actualization, Andersen uses many measures of rhetoric such as juxtaposition, symbolism, irony, motifs, and emotional manipulation.
...times the pleasures of life are too much to bear causing harsh reality to come crashing down when we realize that nothing lasts forever. We might as well enjoy what we have while we have it and not dwell onthings when they are gone, or we might all just be alone and palely loitering.
Despite being an age old debate, the question “why must we suffer?” does not yet have an answer. It has been suggested that to truly appreciate happiness, we must struggle and suffer, as we only understand happiness comparatively. In the text The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, the citizens of the city of Omelas are able to enjoy a perfectly happy life by allowing one child to suffer for them. I was repulsed by the treatment of the unknown child who was kept in the basement. In the text, the existence of the child is added after describing for many pages how good and beautiful Omelas is.
His offer is continuously declined. Throughout the story, the theme displayed shows that it is in human nature to validate oneself’s beliefs and existence through others, and even the most composed person can be pushed to take desperate measures in order to do so. When it is revealed to
Suffering can be defined as an experience of discomfort suffered by a person during his life. The New York Times published an article entitled what suffering does, by David Brooks (2014). In this article, Brooks explains how suffering plays an important role in our pursuit of happiness. He explains firstly that happiness is found through experiences and then, suffering can also be a motivation in our pursuit of happiness. In other words, suffering is a fearful but necessary gift to acquire happiness. This paper is related to motivation and emotion, two keys words to the pursuit of happiness (King, 2010).