Morality is pivotal to human-kind. Society determines what is “good” and “bad.” Humans evaluate if their actions are moral according to this rubric. A Separate Peace explores what can change one’s level of morality. Both characters exemplify immoral human characteristics to an extreme.
Society is founded on certain ideas that determines how it runs. The ideas that it is founded on have been developed throughout time, but what happens when a person does not see these ideas to be ideal? This person sees these ideas as the sin in our world, and the person comes up with their own ideas to purge themself from this sin. Escaping for society, this person detaches themselves from human interaction and tries to find themselves in nature. Krakauer shows how chimeric ideas can lead to actions that cause injury and
Straying from humanity can result in many dangerous effects such as a lack of empathy toward others and abandoning one's moral compass. Once a person has been distanced from humanity they start to express a lack of empathy, or that they have never had a sense of empathy in the first place. In “The Most Dangerous Game”
It’s not Mersault’s actions that influence his crime, but rather his lack of actions. His apathy for everything and the absurd causes him to place life to near or on no value whatsoever. Since he feels no remorse for Maman’s death, he certainly won’t feel anything for a stranger’s death even if he murdered him. The court looked into Mersualt’s private life and found details about the death of his mother. When Mersault’s lawyer is talking to him and it is said that, “The investigators had learned that I had “shown insensitivity” on the day of Maman’s funeral” (Camus 64).
“Perils of Indifference” is meant to inspire listeners to be the kind of person who is strong enough to face reality and take action against
Society’s Alienation from Itself Whether an enrapturing TV program or a few hours spent in the “Car Wrecker place” destroying a car, these activities act as distractions. In a society where an infinite number of distractions exist, people are isolated from one another because of them. In Fahrenheit 451, people avoid acknowledging the existence of their own issues and are encouraged to participate in mindless activities to divert their attention from them. But, people fail to realize the detrimental and dangerous effect isolation has on society.
The Stranger, written by Albert Camus, It follows the story of our tragic hero, Meursault, shortly after his mother dies through the events that lead to him being sentenced to death. Camus uses the motif of weather to express Meursault’s emotions. The Stranger shows how even when a person does not explicitly express emotion they are shown in some way. How emotions are expressed is a window to a person's personality. I will first discuss how Meursault appears emotionless, than how Camus uses the motif of weather to express Meursault’s emotions for him and lastly what impact this makes.
Societies are built to be a safe, welcoming and an accepting environment, but sometimes end up to be harsh, cruel and irrational places. In John Wyndham’s novel, The Chrysalids, we are introduced to a world we can never imagine being, yet we live in a world that is actually not very different. David Strorm lives in post-apocalyptic world as a telepathic who is regarded as a mutant and goes on a tough journey with his cousin Rosalind to escape from their non-accepting community. The Waknuk society is indeed very similar to our world considering that today’s society also fears things they do not know about, do not always accept differences and has major issues with dealing with sexism. By comparing Waknuk to our world, the similarities
To protest that some fairly improbable people, some people who could not possibly respect themselves, seem to sleep easily enough is to miss the point entirely, as surely as those people miss it who think that self-respect has necessarily to do with not having safety pins in one’s underwear. There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation. Although the careless, suicidal Julian English inAppointment in Samarra and the careless, incurably dishonest Jordan Baker inThe Great Gatsby seem equally improbable candidates for self-respect, Jordan Baker had it, Julian English did not.
This novel proves that moral courage goes against human instinct, that it doesn 't aid in survival. The most basic
What if life contributed to no meaning and the only point which matters is the existence happening during the present? To make things worse, as humans live, they breath, but as they die a salvation is received to their soul, and their existence is over. The Stranger by Albert Camus illustrates that the human soul exists in the world physically, therefore the presence or absence does not contribute to any particular event in life. Through, this thought the novel introduces Meursault, who alienates himself from society. He lacks concern for social conventions and is deprived of the physical bounding from people around him.
In The Stranger, the crucifix appears to represent Christianity, a religion that Monsieur Meursault refuses to believe in or accept. Additionally, it represents rational beliefs that the magistrate attempts to thrust upon Meursault. He wants Meursault to accept God so that his sin will be forgiven. However, Meursault rejects the notion that his life have any significance or rational explanation.
Humans are inconsiderate for anyone aside from themselves. In this novel The Chrysalids, John Wyndham creates a society who exclude anyone different from them. The society is very religious and only listen to two books by heart. Mainly, the novel reveals people’s carelessness for humanity.
In many instances, one’s emotions divaricate from the environment they either expected or spontaneously arrive eventually. Conclusively, this difference administers a tragic psychological vacillation, disallowing the subject to relieve itself from catatonia. Frequently, multiple products of literature explore the dynamics in central characters, prospecting their desires, their inhibitions, and how those elements may dually infer unwarranted conformity, internal conflict, psychological dismantling, and problematic interactions with one’s surroundings and those who inhabit it. Think of the untitled protagonist in the Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, who conforms to the Brotherhood’s philosophy of assisting the oppressed while surrendering his identity,
Through a variety of literary devices, Camus proves how the jury 's racial bias, lack of objectivity, desire for an explanation and fear of people who are different, results in a flawed justice system. The judicial system is supposed to be objective, and yet the people within it, are not. Whether consciously or not, we are constantly influenced by our prejudices, our emotions, and our values. As seen in Meursault 's case, the absence of neutrality in the jury can lead to an unfair conviction. The jury, like Meursault 's lawyer, does not understand Meursault and "hold[s] it against [him]" (66).
