He risked his existence, his wealth, and his men. Beowulf did not think of the safety of his men, he was not aware of others' lives, but instead focused on his own victory. Through his thoughts, one may see how far Beowulf would go to be successful, and can see his selfish ways. As for modern Christian values, pride is seen as a deadly sin, in which Beowulf seem to be doomed to hell if judged on twenty-first century ethics. Excessive pride is frowned upon as for the sinner only sees himself and leaves no room for God.
He abhored society but couldn’t help, but be a part of it. Do I believe that society is corrupt? Yes, I do . I do not believe in going on such lengths to separate myself from it, I believe in bettering it. With the people at Emory he was distant and rude.
People are obsessed with fitting in the social mainstream that they become afraid of change and are challenged by genuine emotion. The weeping man doesn’t want or need anything from his society. “The weeping man, like the earth requires nothing”. However although the society is isolated from the weeping man, the onlookers get a choice. The facelessness of modern society means there is less fear of judgement and the consequences of judgement, than in the society such as Salem in the Crucible.
Dolphus is explaining that he does not care if people disapprove but at least he gives them a reason as to why he does it. “Secretly , Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s he way I want to live” (Lee 228). Dolphus Raymond wears a mask so that he is not judged far worse than he ‘should’ be (in the opinion of the Maycomb citizens) because he lives differently than what they deem appropriate. Another example of a person wearing a mask is Tom Robinson. “No suh, I never looked at her” (Lee 223).
They don’t care about what people think of them. When you hate yourself, whatever people say it doesn’t make sense. ‘Why do they like me? Why do they care about me?’ Because you don’t care about yourself at all.” Whether Edwards realized it or not, he never tried to hide his depression from the public as shown in the above statement, often using his music to express himself. Culture, alienation, boredom, and despair were themes that remained constant in Edward’s music; although one could argue that his lyrics were the subtle signs.
Also “empty alliances” refers to how when confrormed into a society, people are unified, but it is empty because there is no real meaning to the unity of society because peple want to be with other people. “An end to ego baths” says that once sineone is free, they will not have any gratitude in helping smeoneout because there will be no one with you to help, so therefore you won’t have the same ‘happy’ feeling. Referring to the results of being free, freedom “confronts loneliness and lives with it”. In other words, one will be lonely once they are in a state of freedom. There are also some positives to being free.
James I has always been viewed as an extravagant king, who didn't care about finances and who was more addicted to his pleasure. He had a few defects which possibly was harmful for the conservation of estate and government: His ignorance and failure to appreciate poverty and lack of strength, although he had the royal prerogative he did not use it as much as he needed to. He overrated himself and despited the other princes. Also, he was too idle and too little concerned with business. If he wanted something he would do anything that is in his power to get it, regardless of costs.
This shows that Rick really does not care about any of the politics happening and he just wants to go about his own business. The attitude Rick expresses at the beginning of the film is the same attitude most Americans had in regards to the war. It seems that Rick has allowed himself to become cynical because he feels that his earlier engagement with Ilsa, fighting against fascism in Spain, was a fool's game. He feels used and bitter, and he is convinced that he has been betrayed when he really was not. Although Rick starts out as a very selfish man who could care less about the politics going on in the world around him, he gradually changes throughout the film to become the unselfish man we see at the end of
This emphasises their selfishness towards their community. Mr Birling is supposedly the most selfish character in this play. He wants to protect himself and his family. He believes that socialist ideas that stress the importance of the community is ‘nonsense’ and that ‘a man has to make his own way.’ He wants to protect Birling and Co. He cannot see that he did anything wrong when he fired Eva smith- he was just looking after his business interests.
He didn’t care what was the right thing to do he was just selfish and only thinking about himself. In order to get anywhere in this world you have to be honest, to be trusted, that’s what I work for in my family. I tell my parents the truth I see no need in ling to them, it only gets me in more trouble, that’s why I’m honest with