Resilience In 'The Irony Of Luck'

Survival is resilience! To be resilient is to survive! I say this because those words are equal in meaning and definition. What does the word resilience mean? There are a few definitions of the word and in order for me to fully understand the meaning; I had to dissect the definition. There are two distinct differences relating to a human and an object. For a human, resilience refers to how the person recovered from adversities; whereas for an object, it refers to how it returns to its shape and the elasticity of that object. I then went further and looked at synonyms for words appearing in the definitions such as: Adversity (trauma, tragedy, misfortune and hard times); Adapt (adjust, familiarise and acclimatise); Stress (strain, anxiety, …show more content…
“The Irony of Knowledge” by the book's name itself is a joke on how truly impossible it is to know everything or even to know a little bit about everything and the journey through life which is random and often senseless. “The Irony of Luck” to remove your brain to see if you accidentally know the answer to the universe would make feel very lucky, but certainly, dodging the demolition of the earth is lucky. “The Meaning of Life” which is by far, the most ironic part of the story is that the meaning of life is 42. So if 42 is the answer to the question of life, then here are some more questions that cannot be the right question of existence: Chicken first or egg? Is there a God? “The Irony of Technology” is where this story has a depressed robot that is sad. Another is the supercomputer, Deep Thought, and the irony here is that the computer is worried with the meaning of life, which is bizarre for a computer to care about. Another irony is that the humans are an extension of technology which should be the other way around and lastly, the irony in this respect is that the computer fails which should not be the case. Murphy’s Law is not openly stated in the story, but it does help describe how Dent's experience of the universe unfolds. Murphy's Law is a saying that states, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, probably in the worst way possible." The irony of the story's usage of that truism is that, Dent finds himself in the most frustrating, ironic dilemmas but he survives and that is the resilience. He is a small man faced with gigantically big issues that he really can't solve and the characters face certain death but they always have enough time to point out how silly and ridiculous the situation is. Even if you joke in the face of death and destruction, it does not solve anything because you can laugh, but people