first noble truth is that life is about suffering. To live, you should suffer. We need to persevere through physical suffering like illness, tiredness, old age and in the long run death and we need to bear mental suffering like loneliness, frustration, fear, shame, disappointment and, rage. We spend our entire lives looking for happiness when in fact; we will never be able to achieve nirvana. How can it be when our incarnation on earth is a punishment, and a test to prove the purity of our souls Now that I have explained the philosophical reason to write about the beast in the jungle. I will be also explaining the religious side of my choice, which is that in most religions, it is thought that we are put on this earth and tested with fear, …show more content…
Like him, we fall into the trap of hunting down something we hope to be disguised, consequently totally missing what is obvious, and what we in the end know to be his true beast in the jungle. Marcher has his answer yet is fixated on his thought, making it impossible to pay any attention to everything that happens between what is going on, and what is to come. Tragically, we have the same desires; were we not all that mentally caught up with waiting until the end to discover what Marcher 's "beast" is, May 's importance in his …show more content…
He has faith that he is bound to experience some sort of occasion with results that will shake his being. Freud attests that the Ego "is not largely separated from the id" (Freud) and in the same context, Marcher envisions the experience with this beast, which is the sign of his id. Marcher embodies the Ego on the grounds that to Freud the Ego is the seat of anxiety and that the development of anxiety is an ego process. He lives a life of detachment from and connection with the Id. This self-inflicted or destined connection to a beastly Id and the living concern of any experience with it forces itself into the life of a pompous, self-consumed, yet tensely egotistical person, for this experience with the id to