Balance is essential in maintaining a content and fulfilling life. However, it is difficult to achieve this due to unexpected events that may have a great impact on you. No one will have a perfect balance of feeling and reason but ideally they should be relatively at the same level. Many people in real life and the literature we read in the Studies Program are impulsive when making decisions. Achilles in “The Iliad,” Gatsby in “The Great Gatsby,” and the creature in “Frankenstein” are all motivated by feeling rather than reason. To begin with, we read “The Iliad” my sophomore year of high school. This was one of the few works I enjoyed because I was interested in Greek Mythology. Achilles is one of my favorite Greek heroes because of his
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Gatsby was a young man who was in love with the narrator’s cousin Daisy. He goes out of his way to buy a mansion just to attract her attention by throwing huge parties. In this scenario, Gatsby is motivated by his feelings toward Daisy and spends a ridiculous amount of money on a mansion he does not necessarily need. Although Gatsby has not seen Daisy for many years, he was still in love with her. Gatsby and Daisy met and began an affair and Tom, Daisy’s husband, became suspicious that Gatsby was in love with her. In this scene, Gatsby should have hid his feelings toward Daisy better especially with her husband around or he should have moved on since Daisy was already married. Gatsby thought that Daisy felt the same way he did but she just wanted his money. However, this did not matter to Gatsby since he wanted to fill a romantic dream he had at an earlier age and he was head over heels in love with her. Another instance where Gatsby does not use reason was when he takes the blame for Daisy killing Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Myrtle’s husband George ends up shooting Gatsby because George believed he was her lover. Gatsby was so blinded by love that he was willing to accept the consequences of actually killing Myrtle. His emotions of desire and love created an image of Daisy that she could not live up
Gatsby was a young man who was in love with the narrator’s cousin Daisy. He goes out of his way to buy a mansion just to attract her attention by throwing huge parties. In this scenario, Gatsby is motivated by his feelings toward Daisy and spends a ridiculous amount of money on a mansion he does not necessarily need. Although Gatsby has not seen Daisy for many years, he was still in love with her. Gatsby and Daisy met and began an affair and Tom, Daisy’s husband, became suspicious that Gatsby was in love with her. In this scene, Gatsby should have hid his feelings toward Daisy better especially with her husband around or he should have moved on since Daisy was already married. Gatsby thought that Daisy felt the same way he did but she just wanted his money. However, this did not matter to Gatsby since he wanted to fill a romantic dream he had at an earlier age and he was head over heels in love with her. Another instance where Gatsby does not use reason was when he takes the blame for Daisy killing Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Myrtle’s husband George ends up shooting Gatsby because George believed he was her lover. Gatsby was so blinded by love that he was willing to accept the consequences of actually killing Myrtle. His emotions of desire and love created an image of Daisy that she could not live up