This can be seen through many societies throughout history and we can see an example of this in the town of Salem Massachusetts. A closed society where perceived truth too often took over the actual truth which became a breeding ground for ignorant people leading to major conflicts. Often people refuse to see the opposing argument and as a result ignorance brews. When people who are already in conflict continue to turn a blind eye to their opponents and refuse to understand their situations even more it helps their ignorance prevail and continues to harm people further. No matter how much a person tries to avoid conflict and feel that ignorance is bliss, it will take it’s toll one way or another.
Since Japan did the bombing in Pearl Harbor, many Americans believed that Japanese Americans could not be trusted. Japanese fought because there was “A Tremendous Hole” in the Constitution and they would not tolerate being treated as less than a citizen. By the end of the war in Europe, the soldiers in 442nd, consisting most of Japanese Americans, were told by President Truman “you fought for the free nations of the world…you fought not only the enemy, you fought prejudice-and you won” (Takaki 349). Yet discrimination still existed. African Americans found themselves being targeted by hate crimes and violence.
This mental illness would be diagnosed based upon her hostility, her criticism, her self-important image and her lack of empathy towards Jane. In fact, Aunt Reed was a candidate for mental insanity just by being herself. Studies by the American Psychological Association show that internal mindsets of an individual, such as hereditary disposition, has an influence on the development of insanity. Aunt Reed was born into a high class family, and when her brother married ‘beneath himself’, it disabled her to love Jane. Even in today’s society, children are judged based on the amount of money and the social status of their parents.
It is impossible to know what the implications of WWII namely the atomic bomb and Holocaust were on the subconscious of the American public but it is evident through the conformity and lack of voice of the post-war era that there was a malaise spreading across American infecting almost every level of society or as Norman Mailer describes it in his article “The White Negro”, “a stench of fear [that] came out of every pore of American life” causing us to suffer “a collective failure of nerve.” Post-war American’s were scared and rightfully so, these two events had an effect of epic proportion on humanity, however, the fear does not justify the reaction or more explicitly the over reaction, to individualism. Mailer in his article explores this “slow death of conformity” and the phenomenon of those who dared to reject it: African Americans and the hipster (also know as the white negro). The actual phenomenon lies more with the hipster because African Americans had been living in this existential existence long before WWII. Mailer explains the Negro “has been living on the margin between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries” and this philosophy by which they’re living by is due in large part to being pushed to the
The Japanese induce fear in the prisoners which takes control and thinking does not. There’s an accurate view in which the prisoners were forced to live. The Japanese saw no human value in their prisoners. Some examples of demanding obedience and submissiveness: Bowing to the Japanese flag, a dog being shot, because the women were too talkative. The more the women challenged their captors, the more brutal the abuse.
World War II contained some of the worst violations of human rights ever seen. The German military created a system where if an individual opposed orders, they had to be oppressed. Despite popular belief, it wasn’t only the German military that had a nonsensical system, but the American military had a number of flaws as well. In Catch-22, this kind of mentality is shown in insane situations to create a unique perspective on World War II. Not only does the book create this perspective, but it creates the idea of a never-ending circle of repetitive contradictory actions that make it almost impossible not to conform.
Whenever I get asked to state my best qualities or even just describe myself, all I can come up with is negative thoughts. One way to develop self concept is to think about your strengths and weaknesses. It is so much easier to point out the weaknesses than your strengths. I personally feel like weaknesses can haunt someone because they prove what we are not capable of doing and that is why we might self denigrate sometimes. When I criticize and attack myself, it is because knowing I failed makes me think about if i had tried harder then it would have made a difference.
Ignorance and complacency while making terrible choices can change people’s life. In “The Sniper” and “The Monkey’s Paw” characters make choices that affect their lives in dramatic ways. A lack of control of their own lives and simply following without thought has the most impact in their lives. In “The Monkey’s Paw”, on multiple occasions, the characters from both stories express actions of both complacency and ignorance leading to a cruel fate of death and melancholy. “The Monkey’s Paw”, exposes complacency in various situations throughout both stories.
In the novel, ‘Regeneration’ by Pat Barker, the themes of horror and futility are significantly explored. As a result of the horrific events in the war, many soldiers developed psychological problems such as shell shock. In effect, many soldiers such as Siegfried Sassoon reacted against the war and the fact that it was futile, as the motives turned from ‘a war of defence and liberation to a war of aggression and conquest’. In his war poetry, Siegfried Sassoon shows the horrors of war through vivid imagery, and the futility of war, as non combatants such as civilians and generals do not understand what the soldiers experience at the front. In many ways, Barker’s ‘Regeneration’ contrasts with Sassoon’s poetry, due to the fact that the novel is written in the 20th Century, where the characters recount their horrors of war in the safety of Craiglockhart Hospital.
Compulsive liar will alter the truth about issues small and large, which they feel comfort in it. For them, it is difficult and uneasy to speak the truth. They are able to be dishonest faster and very comfortably than others. Environment that we surround our self