The Hobbit Greed Analysis

Greed is a strong desire for something and has only one goal, to acquire as much as possible. However, that goal is impossible to achieve. It is an endless effort to satisfy, without ever reaching satisfaction. In the book The Hobbit, Many of the characters encounter greed in different ways. Greed takes a big part in The Hobbit; it causes fights and even wars. In the real world, greed can cause people to lose friends and family, even up to everything. It makes a person want something; it makes a person feel like he or she needs it when they do not. It corrupts the person until he or she cannot control his or herself.
If greed gets what it wants, it will want more. Greed takes to reach satisfaction, yet greed is never satisfied. Satisfaction does not come from getting more; it comes from sharing and helping others. Thorin, the leader of the organization Thorin and Company, rewarded Bilbo Baggins one 14th of the treasures that the dragon Smaug had stolen, yet it says, “In the end he would only take two small chests…” (274). He could have received piles of treasure; instead he only

In The Hobbit, Gollum, who used to be a Hobbit, found a ring. This ring is called the One Ring. In The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, “… it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible…”(85). The ring had the power to make a person invisible. Gollum became greedy for power. Gollum found the ring and put it on, but after a long time, the One Ring took over and drove him crazy. He turned into a monster, and the only thing that he had ever cared for was the One Ring. Bilbo finds the One Ring when he gets lost, and when Gollum found out, he is outraged. Gollum was greedy for power, he wanted the power to be invisible. Greed controls people in the same way; it traps people into wanting more, turning them into monsters, not physically but mentally. It rots our brains into thinking that we need more when we do