Human selfishness Essay

In the narrative “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor a road trip on the way to vacation turns for the worst. While on the way to Florida for vacation with her son’s family the grandmother wants to stop and see her old house, so they turn around and proceed down a dirt road, then suddenly they get in a car accident and the car flips. Then an escaped serial killer shows up and kills them all due to what the grandma says to him. In this story the author uses speech, thoughts and…

Why follow the rules? Why not get what you want when you want it however you can get it? The mere function of today’s world is based on the elite necessity to have every citizen obey their laws. In addition, people never stop to ask themselves, “Why is there a pressing validity in the action of obeying wholesome rules, and how does this benefit me personally”? Thrasymachus addresses the underlining importance behind morality and the misleading advantages that follow with being virtuous. In a…

injustice, since he receives justice while others do not. His creation directly leads to the deaths of Justine, William, Elizabeth, and Henry. None of these people, not even the monster, receive the justice they’ve earned, but Victor does. His selfishness allows him to live his life without consequence, and even easily get out of a trial. Victor even recognizes the need for justice, but ignores it. After speaking with his creation, he says, “I was moved. I shuddered when I thought of the…

This is a Japanese culture of Collective society. I often feel pressure of Conformity. We have a word “Read the situation” which means we observe people’s facial expressions and behaviors, and judge how we should behave. Don’t do selfish behavior. I always care about other people’s thinking and try to follow them. In the public’s pressures, people don’t hug or kiss, because they care about others’ face. On the bus or train, people should not talk loudly. If my cough lasted for a long time, I had…

The Buried Burden The iron taste of blood, my tired feet could always beat the pavement greater than the cold reality of the world on my conscience. My thin athletic body had become immune to a number of miles some luxury cars would not see. My long dark hair pushed back but never brushed, slowly became streaky with sweat. I had a cold demeanor, but it was only to hide something I did not understand. This would be my last run in this wretched city. It was cold; bone chilling cold, yet I still…

"The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy, shows how the majority of society is selfish. Yet Tolstoy also suggests how even though there is so much selfishness in society, there are some exceptional people who do not follow social conventions and are the prime example of how people in a society should be. This paper will argue that being selfless is important in society and that people should deviate from individualistic behavior and concentrate more on collective behavior. Although a person…

Three major writing professionals help to lay sound evidence to support the claim that humans are inherently selfish. Carl Sandburg was an American poet wrote Buttons, a short poem about advancing troops at the start of the First World War. Tennessee Williams was an American author and writer who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire, a playwright about misfortune and love. Lastly Ernest Hemingway was a famed short story writer. These are each very distinctive writers, but all three of them wrote these…

The Tale of Ophelia There was once a Kingdom in Denmark named Venlighed, meaning kindness. The kingdom was ruled by a fair King and Queen. One day, the King and Queen were blessed with a gift of a daughter, and they named her Ophelia. But something wasn’t quite right with Ophelia. She was born with a deathly illness, so the noble King and Queen asked for the most powerful fairy godmother in the Kingdom. “I do not have the power to cure the princess from her illness, but I can give her a gift to…

Gabriela M. Santiago Michael Vaughan English 1020 30 October 2016 The Story of an Hour When reading about “The Story of an Hour” we can agree that there are multiple positions regarding Mrs. Mallard’s reaction to her husband’s death. Mrs. Mallard, a woman suffering from a heart condition is notified about her husband’s death in a car accident. Positions, such as a woman being repressed, or being in a male-dominant society, could be possible positions for the expectations during that century.…

In the realm of normative ethical theories there are many choices that can best represent one’s own personal belief structure. The one that best suits my personal thought process and belief structure is Egoism. When I say “I am an egoist” I automatically know what the majority of people will think, and that is “how selfish of you to think only of yourself”? When most people hear the word egoist it is automatically associated to have an extremely negative meaning about a person being a selfish…