Societally imposed boundaries of (TOQ) withhold the capacity to stimulate discoveries by allowing the individual to surpass these impediments …show more content…
Where Guevara sought to destabilize middle class privilege, Aldous Huxley saw present psychological frameworks as constrictive and oppressive. Thus, recorded in his anecdotal essay Doors of Perception (1954), Huxley experiments with the psychoactive drug mescaline to emphasise the liberation of the individual from tiresome, socially imposed routines, deducing that all of humanity lead lives “so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape the longing transcend… has always been of the principle appetites of the soul”. Personifying the soul, Huxley’s use of diacope reinforces the tedium of mundane daily existence and urges the individual to challenge social constructs impeding the growth of humanity. Alluding to Gerald Manley Hopkins’ concept of the ‘inscape’, Huxley encourages the exploration of the dynamic inner consciousness, as the individual will “never find the same world on two successive occasions”. This aphorismic statement encourages the surpassing of peripherals imposing upon the human psyche, an experience for Huxley lubricated by mescaline. Upon surpassing the revelations of (TOQ), one may experience the perpetual opportunity for discovery and re-evaluate ones familiar environment with a transformed state of …show more content…
As an expansion of Guevara’s proximate environment is prompted, he articulates that a journey cannot be reduced to a mere beginning and end, writing “the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes”, suggesting that it instead exists as a conceptual paradigm enforced to challenge the mind and alter the perspective. Guevara’s metaphorical aphorism and use of andiplosis emphasises his journey as a catalyst for such change, stimulating various internal self-discoveries. This is most prominently observed in retrospect of his journey, Guevara concludes “I now knew… that when the great guiding spirits cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people”. Guevara’s metaphorical, hyperbolic statement foreshadows his role as a South American revolutionary and epitomises that, for Guevara, it is the process of (TOQ) that bears the most importance, as it is these situations that challenge and shapes one’s