He means that if the venture needs you to be anyone else but yourself, it will lead to no good. This reveals to me that Thoreau believes strongly in the individual, being yourself, and seeking your own path. This quote is also applicable to modern life because many ventures nowadays require you to conform for some purpose. The second aphorism I remembered is “Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity.” Thoreau means that our focus and attention to detail now in society and culture do nothing but to waste our lives away needlessly. He believes simplicity is the better choice.
We only have one life, so why spend it hating it? If you're unhappy with something, learn to love it or change it. Loving yourself isn't being conceited, it's being confident. There's nothing more beautiful than seeing someone who happy with themselves inside and out. Now that's
All Lennie actions show his innocence. They way he likes to pet, the way Lennie does not understand the real things and the way of how people treats him is what shows that people do not need to be smart to transcend in life. Or the way George protects Lennie and the way George take decisions in his life and Lennie’s life shows that to exceed in life, you do not need to be the smartest person in life. You only need the
As a result, the key for the survival of individuality lies in how conformist the people are ready and willing to become. Freedom of imagination and speech is a double edged sword: if an individual freely chooses to believe everything he is told, be it out of conformism, lack of education or both, eventually he no longer possesses individual freedom. If this becomes common norm, it is easy for social organization to become exploited, corrupted and eventually regimented. Thus, an individual must be taught to question everything he sees or reads and never take anything for granted. Despite what captain Beatty says, it is certainly better to be free and melancholic than oppressed and
When one falls into a deep infatuation of gaining a higher status it seems that they forget what is right and wrong. It is human nature to want the best for your self so when it is obtainable everything and anything goes. No matter what tactic is taken, the outcome is the only important aspect in view; any wrongs are irrelevant at the time. The only concern is getting to the top and nothing else matters. As in war, your opponent does not care how he eliminates you and your team, as long as he is the winner.
Macbeth allowed his conscience and want for power to subdue him into a state where nothing could stop him in his climb to the top. This sends the entire country into chaos. In Brave New World the want for stability causes the World Controllers to create a dystopia where no one can feel reality. The truth is camouflaged behind a thick layer of soma. The World Controllers decided that they never wanted their world to go into chaos as did the world of Macbeth.
He can then act in any way he wishes to without fear of the consequences that it can bring. He then goes on to explain how the supposedly just man would act upon all his worldly and selfish lusts and wants considering the lack of consequence it will bring. In my
Guilt presented as corrosive and ultimately destructive of the human spirit. Proctor’s sense of shame does not permit him to initially demonstrate principle conviction like Rebecca Nurse in the face of a self anointed, morally superior authority. He declares ‘let them that never lied die now and to keep their souls’. (pg 119) Proctor wants to live, and is willing to draw on the fact of his past transgressions in order to justify recanting. He is ready to be swayed by Hale’s compelling argument that ‘life is G-d’s most precious gift, no principle, however glorious, may justify taking it” (pg
All of the people in the brave New World believe they are the best they can be which means there is no desire to achieve anything or try harder. This also furthers the gap between real human nature because it is just basic instinct for people to make things better for themselves. When the world controller makes John stay as punishment it’s clear that the world is not a utopia because John hangs himself. By acknowledging the dystopia, Aldous Huxley demonstrates how one man's heaven is another man’s hell. Along with many other possible themes, “A perfect world is unachievable without imperfection” fits quite nicely.
(29) This quotation proposes that he wants to shape her into his own image, of how a woman is supposed to be. Jody is painted as a man who is very full of himself, believing that he is above everyone else. A prime example is when he uses the phrase “I god”, using this to exert his power mentally over whoever he is having a conversation or an argument with. Hurston uses this as another recurring motif, man’s need and propensity to dominate. Jody sees Janie not as a person but as a possession, something that is beneficial to his ultimate goal.