The memoir I read, Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat was described about her experience in the prison of Tehran. The prison has taken Marina’s freedom. However, she was released from the prison after few years luckily. After released from prison, she had felt there is no future in Iran anymore to her and decides to leave the country with her husband and son. At the end of the book, she takes the plane and describes that she crosses the border of Iran.
In 1978, Simon Nelson of Rockford, IL brutally beat his wife to the brink of death while also murdering his six children and pet dachshund. Where did this animalistic rage come from? Nelson and his wife Ann had been experiencing some marital issues. Ann was discontent with Simon’s drinking habits as well as his sloppy overweight appearance. Simon tried to appease Ann’s discontent by joining a local fitness program, shaving off his beard, and even trying harder at work.
In life there are people who follow instinct and people who follow reason, but which one is more important in mankind? The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” is an exemplified example of this question. In the short story the reasonable and logical Rainsford goes against the instinctive Zaroff. When Rainsford lands on an island, he meets a fellow hunter named Zaroff. He later find out Zaroff hunts humans!
Watching Cannibalism is Fun? Thesis Statement: People kill and watch for entertainment in modern day society just like how the people in Fahrenheit 451 do. Fahrenheit 451 is related to real world violence in modern day society, in that in both the fictional and “real” world, people enjoy killing animals for entertainment purposes. As it is said by the author of Fahrenheit 451, “… and there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first.”
(Ray 179) This irrational panic leads humans to killing something whose actions are harmless and natural for no reason except fear. A fear strong enough to end the life of a creature and prevent the life of off
[Sobs] Please say hello to me.” (Lawrence). To conclude, irrational senses hinder survival situations more than physical
Fear, The Destruction of People’s lives Fear: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Fear, everyone has it, some people have it more than others. If one cannot control themselves they will find out that they are excluding/isolating themselves from the rest of society In these two pieces of literature, A Separate Peace and Dead Poet’s Society , the central theme is fear and how one is isolated because of it. Todd Anderson from Dead Poet’s Society and Leper Lepellier from A Separate Peace were always fearful and shy.
For instance, war veterans sometimes cannot view fireworks as it induces fear in them due to the sound of the explosions seeming like gun shots. In Slaughterhouse-Five, author Kurt Vonnegut, a former soldier in World War II, explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder by identifying the underlying causes, highlighting the impacts and symptoms of PTSD, and evaluating coping mechanisms. During a time period where post-traumatic stress disorder was still incredibly controversial, Vonnegut utilized the character of Billy Pilgrim to identify the causes of PTSD. The mental disorder can have many causes as explained in the article “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,” in which the National Institute of Mental Health states, “Not everyone with PTSD has been through a dangerous event.
Being vulnerable was something to be feared in a world driven by survival of the fittest and with predators who emerged the need for
Sometimes the instincts built inside of humans can lead to results in a situation that is worse than
A natural human instinct is to do anything in order to survive. Though a person may not necessarily want to survive, the physical body of a person does. The body naturally will try to do anything in order to protect itself and survive even when the person does not notice. Survival comes at a cost that not all people are willing to pay. To survive there are struggles and obstacles that not all are willing to face, but to get through these obstacles an individual is one step closer to survival.
However, the most common incentive for infanticide among animals was found to be the altruistic infanticide: when the mother fears for the safety of her offspring due to another predator attack, she might resolve to end their lives. By killing them, the mother saves the lives of herself and the older and stronger children (Taylor, 2012, Para.13). It is ironic when journalist Virginia Morell, concludes that about animals’ behavior: “As reasonable as these decisions sound, there's still something profoundly upsetting about the deed—so much so that even biologists used to regard it as a pathological behaviour”, especially that humans are committing infanticide as well (Morell, 2014,
According to Seligman “the distribution of human reactions to extreme adversity is bell shaped, on the far left hand are people who fall apart under thrilling adversity, they become helpless, they show what we now call “post-traumatic stress disorder” they occasionally become massively depressed” (2010, p. 239) .
Fear is a psychological and physiological response to distressing or dangerous circumstances. Fears are often rational – the fear of death, for example, or of harm to oneself of those one cares about. Some fears are more irrational, such as phobias of certain animals or things not causing immediate danger. In any case, fear is a powerful response and causes someone to be weaker and more submissive. 1984 by George Orwell illustrates how fear, a natural human experience, can be used as a means for a person’s submission to authority, In the novel, Winston Smith, the protagonist, is a working-class citizen in a futuristic, dystopian London.
In addition insanity functions to establish the need of social fictions. The
