The Consequences of Uncontrolled Emotions
The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller all illustrate how the lack of control of emotions not only cause the of ruining relationships, but can also cause self-harm or death and can cause the destruction of personal reputation. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their lives. The reader is given good examples of cause and effect of how emotions can ruin a person’s life based off of how they are controlled. As humans, we all have emotions, and sometimes we are given challenges to test our emotional control, however, …show more content…
In Trifles, Mr. Wright’s lack of control of his emotions is the cause for him killing Mrs. Wright’s canary, which in turn is the final straw for Mrs. Wright and gives her what she thinks is good reasoning to kill her husband. The canary was what Mrs. Wright connected to the most in her life, Mrs. Hale describes it best when saying “come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself”(1392). Mrs. Wright felt that the only way to get back at Mr. Wright for such an awful deed is to murder him the same way he murders the canary. When Oedipus finds out that he is the murderer of his father, he suffers from great embarrassment brought on upon himself, towards not only the situation, but the lack of control that he presented during the entire investigation. At the end of the play, he acts impulsively because his embarrassment for his ignorant actions by proclaiming “cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands!” (1475) and then he proceeds to blind himself out of pure uncontrolled emotion. In Death of a Salesman, the reader follows the unfortunate failing of Willy. Willy lives in the delusion that he will eventually be given another chance to sell himself to the world. He was a firm believer in reputation overcompensating for hard work and felt like that if people like you, then hard work was not
The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller all illustrate how the lack of control of emotions not only cause the of ruining relationships, but can also cause self-harm or death and can cause the destruction of personal reputation. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their lives. The reader is given good examples of cause and effect of how emotions can ruin a person’s life based off of how they are controlled. As humans, we all have emotions, and sometimes we are given challenges to test our emotional control, however, …show more content…
In Trifles, Mr. Wright’s lack of control of his emotions is the cause for him killing Mrs. Wright’s canary, which in turn is the final straw for Mrs. Wright and gives her what she thinks is good reasoning to kill her husband. The canary was what Mrs. Wright connected to the most in her life, Mrs. Hale describes it best when saying “come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself”(1392). Mrs. Wright felt that the only way to get back at Mr. Wright for such an awful deed is to murder him the same way he murders the canary. When Oedipus finds out that he is the murderer of his father, he suffers from great embarrassment brought on upon himself, towards not only the situation, but the lack of control that he presented during the entire investigation. At the end of the play, he acts impulsively because his embarrassment for his ignorant actions by proclaiming “cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands!” (1475) and then he proceeds to blind himself out of pure uncontrolled emotion. In Death of a Salesman, the reader follows the unfortunate failing of Willy. Willy lives in the delusion that he will eventually be given another chance to sell himself to the world. He was a firm believer in reputation overcompensating for hard work and felt like that if people like you, then hard work was not