Choice theory

There comes a point in life where we are bound to take crucial decisions in order to move forward. Some choices would prove to be exactly what we were hoping for and others will make us wonder what would have happened if we had taken the other available path. Robert Frost presents this enigma on his poem ‘The Road Not Taken’. He most chose between two paths and he is conflicted about not being able to “travel both.” He looks at one road until it disappears from his sight, yet he decides to…

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost contains four stanzas of five lines. Each stanza has a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. The poem begins by saying the problem and setting that a traveler comes to a fork in the road during the fall. Frost shows the reader that the season is fall by the color of the trees’ leaves, “yellow wood.” In the first two stanzas, Frost takes the role of the traveler and begins to explain both paths. One path being full of nature and beautiful while the other looking…

Decisions for a person like me, who thinks way too much about way too many things are absolute HELL!!! They also take FOREVER! You go from thinking about the options, to the consequences the, “am I going to regret this later?” sort of thing. Like I can totally see myself ten years from now, sitting in front of a table covered in bridal magazines, cake and fabric samples. Trying to choose between chocolate, or red velvet, or vanilla cake, and trying to choose between Chiffon or Taffeta. while…

Choices are made daily, some have an insignificant impact on anyone or their lives, for example, if someone chooses to put their left sock on today first even though they had their right sock in hand, the world probably will not be affected too much. However some choices in the world have a large impact, everyone learns this as they mature and reach adulthood. These choices can be choosing to say the right or wrong thing at a certain time, possibly hurting a career or relationship. To elaborate…

In the article “Logical Choice” Gary Belsky writes about decisions and how hard they can be no matter what the circumstance is. He wrote this article to show people that it is not easy making a decisions without feeling a little guilt about the choice they made. Belsky gives a few real common life examples of choices people have to make and some they make in their daily life. A few years ago I lived with my mom and was going through some tough situations while I was there. We had financial,…

Imagine you are faced with two choices, where one is the right choice you know you have to make, but there is a tiny part of you that just wants to make the other choice to see what plays out. Which one would you choose? The more reasonable decision that would surely guide you down the right path, or the erratic decision that you are taking a risk on? In Updike’s “A&P”, Herbert’s “The Nothing”, and Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings”, the three central characters, Sammy, Jean, and Mrs. Sommers,…

life changing. By the end, we see the tone shift to being adventurous when the speaker abruptly “..took the fast way home / .. and phoned the blond” (21-20) risking everything for lust, again, conveying to the reader to live their best life with the choices they want to make, before life passes them by and they are left behind with a life of…

There are many variants of choices we have to make in life, some are nugatory and facile choices to make, while others are hard and may transmute our lives thoroughly. In the poems “If” by Rudyard Kipling and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, each poet captures the essence of how consequential choices are. Kipling takes a more literal way of exhibiting how choices affect us while Frost shows choices in a more symbolic and consequential way that makes a reader authentically celebrate. "…

Choice: The act of picking between two or more possibilities. This definition came right out of the dictionary and it makes choice sound very black and white. In reality, there are many factors that tie in with it. Every individual has a choice but their decision, whether good or bad are all based on their morals and their circumstances in life. There are a wide variety of choices popping up constantly in everyday life. One example of this is shown in Adrienne Rich’s article. The overall…

Making any kind of decision is nerve racking. Even the most mundane of choices like what color rug would best suit the décor can get one into a bind. People often avoid making decisions because they making a choice can be quiet overwhelming. In my opinion, the biggest obstacle to making a good decision is doubt. We tend to question if the choices we make are the right choices. Often times our lack of confidence, too many choices and indecisiveness is you factors to making poor decisions.…