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Examples Of Greed In The Lorax

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Nature underpins our economy giving us shelter, food, water, and clean air. Without all of those things, humans would likely be unable to survive. In The Lorax, nature is oppressed because of O’Hare and the Once-lers’ profits off of the destruction of Thneedville's air quality. For O’Hare the more the air quality decreases the more money he will make and the more trees the Once-ler cuts down to make thneeds the more his business thrives. Essentially nature is oppressed by the greed of two men. In Thneedville the air is not very clean and every living thing is plastic; along with that, fresh air is delivered by O’hare’s air company. The city does not want to know where the trash and chemicals go and they are okay with their artificial city. …show more content…

There wasn’t a trace of anything living. Once Ted found the Once-ler he revealed that his creation of the thneed and his addiction to money was the demise of all truffula trees. He told Ted the story of how the truffula tree disappeared starting with the first tree he cut down. When he chopped down his first tree the Lorax (the guardian of the forest who speaks for the trees) arrived. The Once-ler eventually realized how he would affect the ecosystem if he continued to cut down the trees and promised the Lorax he would never cut down another tree again. He used the tuff of that singular tree to make his first thneed and once it became a hit in town he realized the amount of money he could make. He started his thneed business only by harvesting the tuff from the trees but when his family got lazy and realized how much faster it would be to bring in revenue by cutting down the trees the Once-ler happily obliged claiming “how bad can I be”. (The Lorax 55:35) The Once-ler believed that what he was doing was just business, “who cares if a few trees are dying”. (The Lorax 56:17) No matter how much the Lorax and the creatures complained and begged him to stop he continued until every last tree was gone and the entire ecosystem was destroyed. He was fully aware of the consequences but was blinded

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Lastly, when the Once-ler’s mother asks to start chopping more trees down, The Once-ler does hesitate a bit but he does not give him mother any reason why they can’t cut the trees down so how was she supposed to know it was wrong. If the Once-ler would have just told his mother they can’t or did something else than tell them to go ahead and chop them down he could have saved the trees and the animals, But the Once-ler was eager and wanted to get money

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Continuously throughout the play greed is a main cause of persecution. Putnam is a wealthy man with much land but wants more. George Jacobs happens to have a lot of land that Putnam wants, using his daughter Putnam gets Jacobs accused of witch craft and put to death. Jacobs death results in Putnam being able to buy his land. Giles knows the truth behind Jacobs being accused, he makes that clear when he exclaims “If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeits his property – that’s law!

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To help fix this problem we all need to think about how our actions affect the environment. Recycling helps the environment and there are many other ways to help the environment If we don’t want our earth to turn into a wasteland like Thneed-ville and we are heading that direction but we can still fix it just like Ted did when he planted the Truffula Tree. One thing we could do is recycle. If people recycled the Thneeds then The Once-Ler wouldn’t have had to cut down as many trees.

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These are all traits that would describe Walter Lee and his actions. Walter Lee is a character from the play A Raisin in the Sun in which a black family tries to get out of poverty and go against stereotypes by trying to start over with their Grandpa’s life insurance money. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry explores the concept that greed leads to being blinded by money and forgetting about one’s loved ones as shown by the climax of the play, the character of Walter Lee, and the effect that his actions have on the rest of his family. The Character of Walter Lee shows that greed blinding a person can cause him to forget about the ones he loves.

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Macbeth’s Greed William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a play in which Macbeth is has an internal battle with himself on whether or not to stay loyal to the king or succumb to his dark desires of seizing the crown. Greed affects Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Banquo differently, which leads to a power struggle in Scotland. The primary example of Lady Macbeth exemplifying greed comes when she is trying to convince Macbeth to kill king Duncan by stating “chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden crown” (Shakespeare 1:5:17-18). The idea of being in control entices Lady Macbeth enough to convince her husband to kill king Duncan. Lady Macbeth’s greed in her pursuit of power leads her to go as far as framing the guards for

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Lastly, in Beowulf, he showed greed when he went into the cave to defeat Grendel’s mothers by stealing from her cave. Beowulf shows signs of an epic hero but he let greed get the best of him. He had his mind set on just killing Grendel and being done with his work. But once he killed Grendel, he had to defeat Grendel’s mother. When he went into the cave to defeat Grendel’s mother, he saw treasures everywhere.

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