“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.” -Aristotle. Laws are made to protect people from themselves and others.The fear of punishment can deter people from committing crimes, and when someone breaks a law, they are put in prison, where they can do no more harm to society. When law is taken away, people will do whatever they please, without fear of punishment. I think we can all agree that civilization requires structure. People need to follow common rules and policies, or laws.
In “Harrison Bergeron”, Vonnegut shows us a grim future based on a mutation of the ideal that all people should be equal. In his future, all are equal. This equality comes from handicapping those who stand above the rest so that they are “average”. Harrison Bergeron is the idealized man; smart, handsome, graceful, and in federal prison for being all of those things. He breaks free of prison and attempts to share his individuality with everyone.
As Timothy Findley tried to emphasize that the distribution of power in that family, or in the patriarchal system, is deformed, where full power is in Noah’s hands. With that power, Noah can virtually do anything he desires. Through the innocent eyes of the personified animals in the book, Noah is the demon and the only source of evilness. He is stubborn over his own ideals in which he believes that everything he does is correct. Therefore no one can truly communicate with.
In Monster The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member the author, Sanyika Shakur discusses his life and all his struggles. Sanyika did not grow up in the safest area, he was around gangs all the time with no escape, his father was not a good influence and his mother was always working to support the family. Everyone has issues within their lives but how they deal with them is what can help them. Some people let the issues they have to or have dealt with get to them; they let it change them as a person whether that is positive or negative change.
Universal Fact: The people of any society usually want a say in the ruling or governing of that society. Universal reality: In history, when the majority of countries had rulers and kings, the common man was killed for even stating things to a certain extent as to disagree with the king or parliament itself. Just like long ago, these boys tried to build their own political state. Although Ralph, Piggy, and Jack all desired the same thing, to survive, they each had different ways of exerting or carrying out that desire. Each of their ideas had the similarity of survival.
Both of our societies like to make a spectacle of the unusual instead of trying to understand where the differences lie and come to a common ground. Individuals that do not conform to society standards are made to feel like rejects and most often remove themselves from society by taking solitude away from everyone. In Brave New World, the savage ultimately found peace by taking his own life. There are so many incidents that occur on a daily basis in our society that individuals feel their only way to find freedom from society is by ending their
David Merino Period 5 1984: Disintegration of Humanity 6/16/11 Living in a world with freedom of expression, freedom of speech; basically, being free to doing anything can be seen as a blessing, but to some people, the lack of power and control over others is a disastrous way of living and it must be changed and adjusted. In the eyes of Big Brother and the System, the world and its inhabitants must be kept under strict rules and laws, and if broken, the criminals must be annihilated. These laws and consequences are what keep the “people” in 1984 from actually living as human beings. Two big components of humanity are the importance of linguistics and language, and our media, but when tampering with these components, which is the exactly what the System did, human life starts to disintegrate.
They know that slaves are no different from any other human being. The reason why they treat them like property is because they want to make more money by not giving the slaves wages. The last point that Douglass brings out to discuss is that slaves do all the labor of a man. This shows that a slave is a man because only men could do those labor. We cannot imagine an animal knowing how to do those labor.
I am exactly how he has created me, and if he hadn’t hurt me the way he did by abandoning me, maybe I would be “normal”. If this isn’t what he wanted, what is? He toyed with my emotions, and played with my mind. Society treated me like a monster without knowing even who I was, how old my mind was and how much I knew about people’s environment. Instead they immediately treated me as if I was an outsider, someone who would
Stereotypes are really learned from everywhere: from our parents, the media, at school, on the street, even around our family. As a kid, we grow up, hearing our parents saying, “Don’t talk to strangers” “Stay away from him. He’s bad news” and without us even knowing, we are programmed to judge certain people by nothing but their appearance. We don’t care if they have an outstanding personality, came from a very well-respected family or secretly struggling through personal matters. If we see someone or people who don’t exactly fit the images we as a people thinks they should, we are quick to criticism.