These teens - the soldiers - never know which direction to go, fearing it’ll be a trap. Most just hide somewhere, refusing to get up and fight for their future. But, when in this war, they face a horrible tactic: depression. The one thing that can stop them from ever fighting. From winning the war.
Bigger is panic-stricken so as a result, he goes into a delusional behavior, ignoring all the other vices he has committed as well as the problems he has created such as raping and killing Bessie. Although he knows what he carried out, he cannot control himself. After
Because they are afraid of what will happen if they do. Remember Sai Seng, beaten to death because he deserted? For child soldiers, disobedience is unacceptable. They don’t even think of disobedience because they see what happens to those who do disobey. They are told that spirits protect the commanders and they are brainwashed to just shoot at the enemy.
Soldiers adapt to the different criterions of war, to the point where the word death loses its emotional value. In the text, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, ceaselessly slaughtering people merely becomes a soldier’s duty. Paul says, “We have become wild beasts…we can destroy and kill to save ourselves.”(Remarque, 15) This shows that death no longer is considered a sensitive topic, in the soldiers’ views. Also, they don’t have any humane thoughts/feelings before assassinating someone because it becomes a part of their reflexive skills and therefore, requires no second thoughts or sensitive feelings. They seem to be indifferent to the fact that they have killed someone because assassination merely becomes their ‘job.’ In a similar manner, Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison, is inclusive of the same insensitiveness and indifference towards the death and murdering of people.
Ender does not want to kill anyone because if he does, then it’ll make him like Peter. In the beginning of the book, Ender says he does not want to be like Peter because he is too ruthless and mean. Peter could kill many people and have no feelings about it afterwards, he would not even care. Ender does not want to be mean like
Second reason is people use them in the wrong way. People use them to scare other people, rob people, pistol whip people and to fit in with the crowed. This is not good reasons to use a gun. Guns are meant to protect your self in an emergency situation. That is why we have so many different deaths in the world now because people are not using them responsibly.
‘Conscies’ as they were known in the time of war would refuse to fight because of several reasons. Either, they were against war and killing other people, they didn’t believe that Germany was their real enemy, or because of their religious beliefs. Overall, it must have taken great courage to refuse to serve a country which every other citizen is. What also shows their bravery was that in 1916, a conscription was made saying that every made had to ‘do their bit’ in helping Britain through the war. There were some who offered to work in the background, but most refused to even get involved.
Not knowing what’s around the soldiers and the narrator makes them feel terrible. The concept of not knowing what’s going to happen always makes the soldiers believe that something horrible is going to happen. In the war, everything may happen in a single day. In chapter 4 ‘Back to the Round’, the narrator and company have to move around the trenches on their bellies because there is a sniper in the tree that causes a constant fear. Although they know there is a sniper, they still fear him because they cannot discern when he will shoot them.
The Shepherd insists that the revelation of the truth will result in destruction, “I will be destroyed even more if I do talk” (line 1184). The Shepherd’s fear in this line embodies his rationality and foreshadows the inevitability of tragedy in this scene. The Shepherd continually stalls during his dialogue with Oedipus, but Oedipus’s overbearingness overpowers his resistance, and thus the Shepherd resorts to pleading to the King, “By the gods, master, do not inquire further!” (line 1190). The Shepherd’s futile resistance displays his determination to protect the kingdom and himself, and only when threatened with death did the Shepherd succumb to cowardly behavior and reveal the reality of Oedipus’s fate. Oedipus’s desire to continuously inquire despite the
Human beings are slaves to their desires; their actions are determined by the will of their strongest present desire. Thus individuals naturally fear death as the ultimate frustration of their ability to satisfy their desires, particularly violent death at the hands of others. Since the state of nature is a condition of scarcity and not of abundance this brings us into violent competition with others for resources and space. And as we are egoists according to Hobbes we have no natural inclination to cooperate with each other or to limit our desires. But isn’t this a massive generalisation that Hobbes is making here, many individuals are happy fulfilling but a few essential desires rationalising that violent