Comparing Cities And Desire

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Desire Why do we love to chase? Desire itself is neither a good or a bad thing but it only becomes bad when it is put into the hands of human beings. Sometimes the desire for something is so strong that it ends up causing us to try our hardest to achieve it, but instead of achieving it we end causing harm towards ourselves. The feeling of wanting more will always be part of our human nature. Italo Calvino's is trying illustrate that in his short story "Cities and Desire 5." Due to the desire of trying to get what we want the men from all the different lands in the short story desired the naked woman, so they built a beautiful and perfect city to capture her, but instead of capturing her their desired ended up trapping them in the city that