An Orientation Of The Heart Summary

Mostly, hope is for a person who is experiencing hopelessly and despairingly when facing with the choice of life; or perhaps it is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. According to Vaclav Havel, the author of “An Orientation of the Heart,” hope can be regarded as an orientation of the spirit and the heart as well as a dimension of the soul (106). He describes how prisoners, the below powerless people, in the early Seventies, dare to have a new self-awareness and self-liberation about things that they did before under the pressure of a powerful governs society. The greater risks they walk through, the greater hope they desire for a true moral value. Even though it is not all of their small hopes can get rewards, it is certain

Havel points out that hope can be considered as a dimension of the soul. That is, people place their hope in invisible and unstructured situations, and believe in hope. It sounds either like a cancer patient should hold what kind of hope to face death, or like a captive prisoner for many years should be in what angle of looking at his suffering. Furthermore, he writes that “hope is an orientation of the spirit, and orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.” In his view, hope is kind of spiritual sustenance, rather than optimism. Meanwhile, it is not what people have experienced can explain the meaning of hope; instead, the hope is full of uncertain and unseen things. Also, people definitely trust its existence. As for the hope, Havel considers that people with hope are not pursuing a good outcome of all the things but for their meaningful action on anything that they want to improve or change. Simply, he defines the hope which “stands a chance to succeed” (106). If people do not rely on their ability to try something, there is no hope. In a word, it seems that is more far away from