Humanity is driven by innumerable conflicting motives, hence the reason why people make the decisions they do, whether they be great or poor. With every different characteristic, each adds something new to society. Humanity is genuinely complex because society is a combination of all contrasting characteristics, so there is no clear way to fix society because everyone is so different with what drives them as human beings. People constantly find themselves arguing against their conflicting motives, because these motives causes them to behave in certain ways and make decisions that they tend to regret later on. The complexity of human nature is displayed in John Steinbeck's novella, The Pearl. Steinbeck's novella is written as a parable to illustrate
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In The Pearl when Kino finds “the pearl of the world” he begins to become obsessed with the pearl and never lets it leave his side. Kino, a man whose thoughts are being consumed by the pearl, starts to make terrible decisions because all he can constantly think about is the evil pearl. One night Kino wakes up to find Juana inaudibly sneaking out of the house carefully trying not to make a sound. He bounces out from bed and rushes to Juana, for he knows what she is planning to do. Kino has an extreme avarice for wealth; therefore, he refuses to allow Juana to throw his pearl that could make him an extremely wealthy man into the ocean, and so he takes action: “He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side” (Steinbeck 59). Kino starts to only care about the pearl and will do anything to keep it safe, even if that means hurting his family. He is beginning to lose trace of who he is as a person because the old him, who was not obsessed with material possessions, would have never laid hands on his own wife. The pearl is evil and makes Kino do things that he would otherwise never do. When Kino beats up Juana it symbolizes …show more content…
Humans can learn, through observing Kino, that all people do not have one essential nature, but numerous motives that can conflict with another. All humans carry good and bad traits, and all have conflicting natures within themselves. Humans can learn from Kino’s conflicting motives of his love for his family and materialism that humans sometimes make decisions that they can later regret because they get so distracted from what really matter and get caught up in the moment. In The Pearl, Kino makes the poor decision to physically harm Juana because she is about to throw his pearl of the world into the ocean, because she feels that it is evil and is turning Kino into a bad man. Kino loves Juana, but the pearl blinds him from thinking straight and making good decisions, and so he ends up hurting his family. Humanity must understand that all people make mistakes, and at one point in a person's life they lose track of themselves because of something or someone, and begin to behave and act different. This is because this someone or something consumes their thoughts, and so that is all they are constantly ever thinking about, and sometimes not even love can make them see clearly. By acknowledging the
In The Pearl when Kino finds “the pearl of the world” he begins to become obsessed with the pearl and never lets it leave his side. Kino, a man whose thoughts are being consumed by the pearl, starts to make terrible decisions because all he can constantly think about is the evil pearl. One night Kino wakes up to find Juana inaudibly sneaking out of the house carefully trying not to make a sound. He bounces out from bed and rushes to Juana, for he knows what she is planning to do. Kino has an extreme avarice for wealth; therefore, he refuses to allow Juana to throw his pearl that could make him an extremely wealthy man into the ocean, and so he takes action: “He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side” (Steinbeck 59). Kino starts to only care about the pearl and will do anything to keep it safe, even if that means hurting his family. He is beginning to lose trace of who he is as a person because the old him, who was not obsessed with material possessions, would have never laid hands on his own wife. The pearl is evil and makes Kino do things that he would otherwise never do. When Kino beats up Juana it symbolizes …show more content…
Humans can learn, through observing Kino, that all people do not have one essential nature, but numerous motives that can conflict with another. All humans carry good and bad traits, and all have conflicting natures within themselves. Humans can learn from Kino’s conflicting motives of his love for his family and materialism that humans sometimes make decisions that they can later regret because they get so distracted from what really matter and get caught up in the moment. In The Pearl, Kino makes the poor decision to physically harm Juana because she is about to throw his pearl of the world into the ocean, because she feels that it is evil and is turning Kino into a bad man. Kino loves Juana, but the pearl blinds him from thinking straight and making good decisions, and so he ends up hurting his family. Humanity must understand that all people make mistakes, and at one point in a person's life they lose track of themselves because of something or someone, and begin to behave and act different. This is because this someone or something consumes their thoughts, and so that is all they are constantly ever thinking about, and sometimes not even love can make them see clearly. By acknowledging the