Emotional Beings
Humans are very complicated beings, but is it possible for a human to connect to a dinosaurs? Or for a dinosaur to have human emotions? A story telling the tale of 2 lighthouse workers and an estranged dinosaur proves that it is indeed very possible. Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Foghorn” uses the topics of loneliness, a symbolic dinosaur, love & loss, and the central conflict of person vs. society to show the complexity of any being with human thoughts and their capacity for emotion and inquiry. With the idea of emotions, an emotion that certainly is not unknown to any person is loneliness. Humans are naturally fated to feel lonely at one point or another, easily linking to their capacity for emotion. Loneliness is a central …show more content…
The dinosaur is a central character in “The Foghorn” and is a symbol for many things. The dinosaur is a symbol for loneliness, the human basic need for communication, and destruction. With the effective use of personification and imagery, the dinosaur is able to represent all these human emotions without physically being a human. The narrator Johnny adequately described the creature to represent loneliness in his descriptions and imagery. “A cry came across a million years of water and mist. A cry so anguished and alone it shuddered in my head and my body.” (Bradbury 3) and “The million years of isolation at the bottom of the sea, the insanity of time there” (Bradbury 4) are both quotes from the story that show how the monster effectively can represent loneliness. Using words like “cry”, “anguished”, “alone”, “isolation”, and “insanity” bring a more in-depth understanding to what the monster is feeling- which are all very strong emotions. Along with loneliness, can often come destruction. A theory is that “Lonely people are more likely to act and relate to others in ways that are anxious, negative, and self-protective, which leads paradoxically to self-defeating behaviors. (Cacioppo 5) The monster destroying the lighthouse is an example of this behavior. “It reared up, threshed the water, and rushed at the tower, its eyes filled with angry torment” (Bradbury 5) and “then the lament, the bewilderment, the loneliness of the great monster, folded over upon us . . . The monster gasped and cried. The tower as gone.” (Bradbury 5) The monsters chronological actions prove Cacioppo’s theory on lonely people’s behavior, the monster acted in a self-protective way, which paradoxically lead to the self-defeating behavior of destroying the only thing it loved. All of this is told by Johnny and McDunn. McDunn has the most expressed thoughts on and it is through him that the human basic need for
Humans are very complicated beings, but is it possible for a human to connect to a dinosaurs? Or for a dinosaur to have human emotions? A story telling the tale of 2 lighthouse workers and an estranged dinosaur proves that it is indeed very possible. Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Foghorn” uses the topics of loneliness, a symbolic dinosaur, love & loss, and the central conflict of person vs. society to show the complexity of any being with human thoughts and their capacity for emotion and inquiry. With the idea of emotions, an emotion that certainly is not unknown to any person is loneliness. Humans are naturally fated to feel lonely at one point or another, easily linking to their capacity for emotion. Loneliness is a central …show more content…
The dinosaur is a central character in “The Foghorn” and is a symbol for many things. The dinosaur is a symbol for loneliness, the human basic need for communication, and destruction. With the effective use of personification and imagery, the dinosaur is able to represent all these human emotions without physically being a human. The narrator Johnny adequately described the creature to represent loneliness in his descriptions and imagery. “A cry came across a million years of water and mist. A cry so anguished and alone it shuddered in my head and my body.” (Bradbury 3) and “The million years of isolation at the bottom of the sea, the insanity of time there” (Bradbury 4) are both quotes from the story that show how the monster effectively can represent loneliness. Using words like “cry”, “anguished”, “alone”, “isolation”, and “insanity” bring a more in-depth understanding to what the monster is feeling- which are all very strong emotions. Along with loneliness, can often come destruction. A theory is that “Lonely people are more likely to act and relate to others in ways that are anxious, negative, and self-protective, which leads paradoxically to self-defeating behaviors. (Cacioppo 5) The monster destroying the lighthouse is an example of this behavior. “It reared up, threshed the water, and rushed at the tower, its eyes filled with angry torment” (Bradbury 5) and “then the lament, the bewilderment, the loneliness of the great monster, folded over upon us . . . The monster gasped and cried. The tower as gone.” (Bradbury 5) The monsters chronological actions prove Cacioppo’s theory on lonely people’s behavior, the monster acted in a self-protective way, which paradoxically lead to the self-defeating behavior of destroying the only thing it loved. All of this is told by Johnny and McDunn. McDunn has the most expressed thoughts on and it is through him that the human basic need for