The naïve realism in us creates a haze over our eyes, making us believe that we see the world as it truly is, and that everyone else is biased towards themselves. This causes us to think that we are constantly in the rights and others are completely wrong and/or not educated enough on the facts. The actuality is, is that our beliefs of that we are always right contributes greatly to our delusions of how the world should work, and us not stopping to consider that perhaps we ourselves do not possess all the facts. It is like everyone is wearing a pair of glasses, however, our lens is crystal clear, and everyone else’s are fogged up and cannot perceive the world properly. For example, one day earlier in the year I was arguing with a friend about
what color a dress was, when I viewed the dress it was blue and black, however, when my friend saw it, he claimed it to be white and gold. I was mildly outraged to hear that how he saw the clothing in a different color than what I believed it to be, and upon hearing that I was wrong I immediately became defensive and made various assumptions as to why he was so clearly wrong, like that maybe he was teasing me, or that perhaps he needed his eyes checked and that’s why he saw different colors. Not once did I consider that maybe I was wrong, but only that I was seeing the dress for how it was truly, and that my friend was just not seeing all there was to see. Naïve realism largely contributes to hypocrisy in the world by making ourselves and exceptions and an example of what we deem as “right and good”, and if someone does not meet those standards then they must be “wrong and evil”.
Imagine the world we are living in today, now imagine a world where we are told who to marry, where to work, who to hate and not to love. It is hard to imagine right, some people even today are living in the world actually have governments that are controlling their everyday life. In literature many writers have given us a view of how life may be like if our rights as citizen and our rights simply as human beings. One day the government may actually find a way to control and brainwash people into beings with no emotions like they have in the book 1984 where they express only hate, because that’s what they have been taught by the party.
In the world of science there are many discoveries. “A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature … and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.” (Ferdinand Puretz). Most people in the world we live in lack to notice and or appreciate the gift of sight in life. By not cherishing the gift of sight and using it properly, many discoveries are left unfound. In the writing piece, Seeing, Annie Dillard speaks of nature and the small things that we all are unconsciously blind to and not appreciative of. Seeing explores the idea of what it means to truly see things in this world. Annie Dillard’s main point is that we should view the world with less of a meddling eye, so that we are able to capture things that would otherwise go unnoticed. There’s a science to how we view things in nature. Dillard attempts to persuade her reader to adopt to her way of seeing, which is more artificial rather than natural.
“The Illusionist” is a short story by Steven Millhauser, which was adapted into a movie directed by Neil Burger in 2008 which both take place in Vienna. The short story’s plot revolves around Eisenheim and his relationship between himself and the state, which is still featured in the movie. Eisenheim’s illusions also cause him a bit of trouble; in the short story the cause of trouble is an illusion, which produces two spirits by the name of Rosa, Elis, and a boy who appears to be no older than eight. In the movie adaptation, the final straw that causes the Crown Prince to finally pursue persecution of Eisenheim is the illusion that again, produces a spirit, which turns out to be his dead fiancée. Because of Inspector Uhl’s growing obsession of Eisenheim, throughout the movie and the short story, it further ignites the blur between what is the reality and what is his illusion. Uhl’s obsession over Eisenheim and his illusions helps blur the reality around him.
The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. Over the body—but, above all, over the mind” (Orwell 273). O’Brien argues that the Party and “Big Brother” had control over reality externally due to the fact that nothing exists outside the mind, and in cases of freethinkers, they would be taken care of by the teachings of “doublethink”. Doublethink is the power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs, for example holding up four fingers and claiming that you have five, and simultaneously making one accept both of them.
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lie and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.” In the novella, Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton
Truth and idealism can lead individuals onto an enlightened path, however, with questionable ideals an individuals life can be persuaded inaccurately. In the Shakespearean Drama, Macbeth, the main characters experience misguidance from their own mislead ideals, which created significant disorder among themselves and the country of Scotland. Ambition combined with the unrighteous forces of Macbeth and Lady led them predominantly to deadly consequences. Macbeth and his wife are engrossed by the witches prophecies which directed them both to irrational thinking and absurd actions. These actions defined both characters throughout the play and impacted their demise tremendously. The ideals of the powerful couple, along with their overbearing ambition, lead their reality into an unconscionable future and their eventual death.
Upon first glance, Into the Wild looks as if it were about another idealistic man turning insane, by simply separating himself from the rest of humanity. However, upon further inspection, the novel is truly an intricately-woven metaphor symbolizing the inescapable order of the world and the possibility to choose one’s path in life, so long as one is determined enough to make that happen (Krakauer, 146). Furthermore, the film The Falling Man, directed by Henry Singer, explores a very similar concept: How can one control the final moments of their life? Singer uses 9/11, an infamous terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Towers in New York, as a medium to express himself and his desire to discover and delve into the amount of control humans
When the term reality is mentioned, many questions arise regarding what reality is and what is real originate also. Unfortunately, many of these questions are yet to be answered since determining reality and what is real are left to each individual’s imagination - for one to determine reality as he or she sees fit. A dictionary may provide a definition for the word reality, but things that constitute reality may never be entirely defined because it is one of those things that is almost completely based on an individual’s perception and interpretation. A dictionary may also provide a definition for the word perception and the word interpretation, but many individuals perceive and interpret many things very differently. With the vast variation of people, thoughts, and beliefs in our world, how should society determine the boundaries of reality? On the other hand, is it even possible to set specific limits when considering reality?
Perspectivism is the doctrine that most or all large philosophical questions have many proposed answers, and many views on how to judge between those proposed answers, and that intelligent people of good will are likely to continue to have differing perspectives on these large questions of philosophy indefinitely. There are both historical and theoretical reasons for embracing this view. Historically, it is manifest that though philosophers have often attained views which are highly satisfying to themselves personally, few perspectives have won a con sensus even in their own times, and none have won a consensus over time. (I refer here to a consensus on some positive view; a consensus on the falsity of views, usually older ones, may be commonly found. But even long rejected views are liable to unexpected resurrections.) In any case, even agreement of near miraculous extent would not prove any thing anyway and would amount to just a widely accepted view with widely accepted counters to arguments against it.
“The Real Thing” is about a couple who are in times of desperate need. They are struggling to find work to continue living the life they have lived and stay in their social class. The only thing they have going for them is their noble looks and sophisticated manners. They have no real talents deeper than what meets the eye. They meet with an artist who tries to use a real lady and gentlemen in an art work striving to portray a lady and gentlemen, but he realizes “The Real Thing” is not what the viewers find interesting or attractive. After much criticism, the artist decides to paint the models who are not actually ladies or gentleman at all, but they are more aesthetically pleasing to the viewers. The lady and gentlemen finally put
What is so captivating about fiction stories? Is it the many abnormal events that can occur throughout the story? In Junot Diaz short story Monstro he focuses in fiction in order to write his story. In this fiction story he presents to us how the country of Haiti is hit by an abnormal disease. The name of the disease as the people decided to call it is La Negrura (The Blackness), this disease causes the infected to turn into zombie like creatures. As the short story develops were able to see that the story is science fiction, Junot Diaz decided to use some of the literary elements in order to give his story a sense of social realism. With the help of literary elements such as imagery, Junot Diaz in his fiction story Monstro is able to create a sense of social realism. Imagery is a literary element that is developed through detailed writing, this element was used by Diaz in order to give his fiction story a sense of social realism.
“In the place where idealism and realism meet, that is where there is the greatest evolutionary tension.” Idealism prioritizes ideals, social reforms and morals, by wanting to benefit not just yourself, but the world around you, believing people are generally good. On the contrary, realism gives priority to national interest and security with emphasis on promoting one’s own power and influence by assuming that people are egocentric by nature. Based on the definitions stated above, idealism and realism are significantly different from each other and their divergence of thought is more apparent when various proponents of each such as Woodrow Wilson, Henry Lodge, Barack Obama and George W. Bush have varied outlooks on comparable issues in politics. Subsequently, an idealist’s reaction to a particular issue would be a lot different than a realist’s response. Therefore, idealism deals with normative ideas and allows for improvements in the progress of not only a single state, but the whole world, however realism solely focuses on the benefits of one’s own nation.
Realism is the creation of the effect of that which represents the historical concrete nature
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In life, many things happen that seem to be one thing, but turn out to be another. Every little thing can cause someone to go on a journey, be it a physical journey, or a spiritual journey. What happened may not always be clear to us, and others may never know the truth, as any single event that happens is really two things: an appearance and a reality. There are many things in our everyday lives that are not as they seem—a class taken leading to a completely different career than we expected, a simple conversation with a stranger leading to a relationship, or an event bonding two seemingly different people. Every little thing can take us on a journey as well—getting what you wished for after a desperate attempt to get it by praying turning someone into a devout believer. In a physical sense, a short