Fatalism

Winston assumes that he will be caught by the thought police in the end, and without any real friends or family, he feels that he has no purpose in life. The only person he is close to is Julia and she encourages his fatalism, so rather than trying to prevent being caught by the thought police, he “throws all caution to the wind” and disregards all of society’s rules. For example in part two chapter three Winston decides to rent out the apartment above Mr. Charrington’s…

Should Obesity Be Considered As a Disease? Obesity or mostly known as being overweight is common around the world. ‘Obesity is defined as a complex multifactorial condition characterized by excess body fat’ (Mayo Clinic, 2013). Obesity was first discovered by Hippocrates, the Father of Western Medicine. During ancient Greek time, overweight people are considered to be divine. As time modernize, obesity was believed to cause health dangers such as diabetes, heart attacks and other effects (Begay…

Slavery was an integral part of ancient Roman culture. At different points in time during its history, slaves made up as much as 40% of the population. Slaves in ancient Rome were overwhelmingly prisoners captured in military conquest, or their descendants. Correspondingly, the slave population was made up of a variety of ethnicities and cultures from all around the Mediterranean. Some ethnicities (especially those known to Romans exclusively as enemies and slaves) became associated with slavery…

Fate is an often debated topic. There are many questions that are often asked when talking about fate. There are three questions I will be answering based on Sophie’s World : “Do you believe in Fate?, Is sickness the punishment of the gods?, What forces govern the course of history?” Some other major themes are the purpose of history, Hegel’s view on history, religion,…

George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984) goes beyond simplistic tropes of science fiction to give a presentation of the future that is dominated by cynical fatalism. Orwell’s pensive approach to human potential has been shaped by his own contextual issues, and questions our ability to maintain functioning society without a descent into the kind of oligarchy that he represents. Conversely, Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis adopts an approach marked by the presence of idealism…

Culture is recognised as an essential element of the subjective experience of illness by describing the ways of life for a group of people to ensure their survival and well-being and shaping the beliefs and values that give meaning and purpose to life (Kagawa-Singer and Blackhall, 2001). The meaning of illness, the usefulness of treatment, and the health behaviour toward disease prevention and control were all influenced by the cultural model of the disease (Coreil, Wilke et al., 2004). The…

Modernist Poets Discuss the Impermanence of Glory In the period following World War I, citizens of all nationalities faced a dark disillusionment forcing them to grapple with personal identity and the purpose of life. People looked to artists of the age as builders of morale and shapers of societal perspective, yet the writers of that time had little more sense of direction than anyone else in the midst of ideological desolation. The only thing to be certain of was uncertainty. Two Modernist…

Research Essay Sophocles is known as the Father of Tragedy. Although he wrote over one hundred and twenty plays in his lifetime, only seven survive today. Sophocles was quite famous at the religious festivals of the Dionysia and the Lenaea, and won twenty four of the thirty competition he competed in never scoring lower than second place. Some of his most important contributions to tragedy are introducing the third character element, his work Oedipus the king, and Antigone. Greek tragedies…

1984 is written by George Orwell who used Winston, the protagonist, to show the horrible possibilities of totalitarianism. Winston’s tendency to resist the oppressiveness of the Party on his individuality, and his intellectual aptitude to reason about his struggle, helps the reader visualizes the oppression that the Party, Big Brother, and the Thought Police placed on civilization. With Winston’s personality Orwell was free to do what he wanted with the story being able to develop Winston hate…

Is action free or determined, Spinoza argues that it is determined but there is a freedom of will in the doctrine of the conatus. This view rests on three metaphysical positions that Spinoza advocates for, namely immanent necessitarianism, reductive naturalism and monism. All that exists and has is and will happen is immanent and inevitably going to happen. This he argues is because nature is constructed by a free uncaused cause (that which has no external constraint). This uncaused cause…