Envy

‘’A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense good will be abandoned for bad’’. People can hate and envy a race to the point of hurting them. People can hate Homosexuals or Bisexuals to the point of killing them or making them commit suicide for choosing what makes them contented with life. People can dislike a religion because of who or what their religion believes. A race, sexuality or religion can make a…

In Stevenson’s fiction, Utterson is a celebrated lawyer, “a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile, cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse”. He gets the news from Enfield: a man named Hyde, trampled calmly over a 10 years old child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. All the passengers on the street condemn his behavior and request him to compensate for the child’s loss. Since the event, Utterson begins his concern for Hyde. For the whole development of the…

Bartolomé de las Casas defended the rights of natives and condemned cruelties committed by the Spanish by producing the radical argument that the Native Americans were human. During his time, early modern thinkers largely interpreted their world through the understanding of the Great Chain of Being, but contested the place of natives within that hierarchy. For Las Casas, the ability to reason defined humanity. To fully understand rationality in sixteenth-century Spain, contemporary historians…

the reason why the county is happier than others. Before he arrived, his friend in Switzerland had arranged for him to interview Swiss people. One of them said that happiness comes from its cleanliness and the effort that the Swiss make for avoiding envy, but he also mentioned the connection between nature and the Swiss. When Weiner visited the Alps to understand the connection, he found himself feeling calm. Moreover, there are some data that prove nature psychologically makes people happy. The…

Antony, who desired the ultimate revenge against the conspirators, saw Brutus as divergent. In fact, upon seeing the death of Brutus, Antony proclaimed ,“This was the noblest Roman of them all. / All the conspirators save only he / Did that they did in envy of great Caesar” (5. 5. 74-76). Unlike the rest of the conspirators, Brutus killed Caesar because he truly believed that he was helping the Roman Republic prosper and free itself from Caesar’s future tyranny. Antony comprehended Brutus’…

It is a universal truth that children envy adults and adults envy children. What is ironic is they are both right. When transitioning from childhood to adulthood, a child has to leave his or her carefree world behind to take on the real world. There are many similarities between these two stages of life such as the continuous desire to learn and the necessity of friendship. The differences outweigh the similarities though, including the difficulties of aging, the burden of responsibilities, and…

straight, which falls directly between her wings. Wings! Easily one of my favorite things about her. She has no idea how I ache for my own pair. As a Parsian writer put it, "the wings of a Pars are the envy of everything that lives". While I can't exactly speak for the rest of humankind, I definitely envy them. Large and feathered, the exact color of her skin, angled downwards. They're truly a marvel of science. I hear trumpets play, which can only mean one thing - the ceremony is about to…

What makes people feel significant? Some would say power, money or success. When one reads fiction, it provides many different kinds of lessons throughout whichever book one could pick, fictional to grammatical. They use those lessons and morals whenever they go out into the world, sometimes they might not be aware of it. . Reading fiction makes people feel significant by providing us with a deeper understanding of the world and the life around us Lord of the flies, for example, reveals the…

Heretics 1000 Years Apart If a person is a heretic does it mean the person’s idea is indeed wrong? Galileo was ridiculed and persecuted by the church because of his observations and teaching. Later the church did come to accept his ideology but it was years after Galileo’s death. Tertullian wrote a letter on the “Proscription Of Heretics” talks about heresy and “Galileo’s Indictment and Abjuration” states the reasons why Galileo was a heretic. The documents are about 1000 years apart but the…

In “The Laugh of the Medusa” French feminist Hélène Cixous writes about “écriture féminine” and invite women to write about themselves and to reclaim their bodies. She takes into account psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s terms but disagrees with his idea of men being more valuable than women because they have a penis. She also opposes that there is a typical woman and argues that all women have “individual constitutions” (876). Many feminists as Cixous criticize Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual…