Aphorism In Mccarthy's The Road

An introduction is often the hardest part of writing a paper. You have to put so much thought into what you have to say to make the reader continue reading your paper. This is a very deceiving concept because my introduction could be awesome but the rest of my paper could be complete trash. Many things in life are deceiving, especially introductions. You never know what you’re getting yourself into, until you’re mid-way through a paper. That is when you realize what the paper is really about, and you get to choose if you want to continue on or not. Life can be deceiving; you do not know what you’re getting yourself into unless you go further than the introduction. In McCarthy’s novel “The Road”, there are many Nietzschian themes that correspond

He says, “How did reason come into this world? As is only fitting, in an unreasonable way, by coincidence. We will just have to figure it out like a riddle.” (Nietzsche, 92) When I first read this aphorism, I had to read it twice to try to comprehend what “reason” Nietzsche was talking about. The definition of reason is the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic. This aphorism is questioning more than just our reason. It is questioning our desire and where our reason comes from. In “The Road” by Cormack McCarthy, the characters all react in different ways and live life differently. The father and son face many challenges and continually fear for their lives in throughout most of the book. They are holding on to certain values that are not shared by most people in this new world that McCarthy has formed. Most people in this new world have let go of these values to survive and others do not wish to live in this new world. This brings up the theme of reason and desire and how they intertwine with one

The son is still young and was born into the world as it is now, and he was never able experience the world as it was before the apocalypse. There is very little to nothing he knows from the world before. He only knows what his father has told him; he only truly knows what he has seen. And what he has seen is the world they live in now. On page 189, the son wakes up from a scary dream and he was frightened. The father says to him, “When your dreams are of some world the never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up. Do you understand? And you cant give up. I wont let you.” (McCarthy,