Illusory superiority

Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North both aligns with, and undercuts, Frantz Fanon’s study of the relations between coloniser and the colonised and between a black man and white woman in Black Skin, White Masks. We can study the areas where Salih’s conception of his characters are in direct conversation with Fanon’s ideas, particularly with Fanon’s distillation of the cause of Jean Veneuse’s neurosis as independent of his race. From the areas where Salih parallels and diverges from…

I believe all curiosity stems from the individual trying to understand the world they were placed in: for those humans who are supplied with a sufficient amount of religion which dictates rigidly what the world is - they are sated. For those humans who reject religion usually spend the rest of their lives accumulating a set of facts and philosophies that define the world for them. This is the same path in which the supercells went about understanding their "Super-host", their "Super-mother",…

Joker in The Dark Knight and Jack Merridew in The Lord of the Flies desire the power to push entire society into corruption of madness and anarchy by their successful leading skills. They trap people using violence and trickery and diffuse their responsibilities to someone else. The Joker and Jack don’t have any humanizing elements; instead, they attempt to destroy humanized society. They, the shadows confront with protagonists and natural humanity to officialize their ideology. The Joker and…

Lastly, some employees have the impression that “I am above all this” (Fix Them or Fire Them pg. 30). The employees will sometimes feel much more superior than other employees in their environment they are working in. As stated in the text, “illusory superiority is a phenomenon whereby people tend to overemphasize their positive qualities and underemphasize their negative qualities” (Fix Them or Fire Them pg. 30). Many people believe they are much better then other employees they work with on…

The 1968 film 2001 Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is an intense piece of work that frustrates and questions the audience due to the perplexing storyline. It is highly regarded as a film that accurately portrays space, has incredible special effects, and obscure concepts. Technology, in the artificial intelligence form, plays a prominent role in this film due to the futuristic elements of space, themes of existentialism, and evolution. HAL 9000 is introduced in the film as one of the most…

As children begin to mature, they must establish their own beliefs. Accepting mistakes, discovering individual identity, and losing childhood ignorance are key obstacles when growing up in society. In the coming-of-age novel, A Separate Peace, Gene Forrester, at the Devon Boarding School, encounters these challenges when conflicts arise as a result from his friendship with Phineas, “Finny”. However, the intensifying pressures of external conflicts force Gene to grow even more than normal; since…

Catastrophe: Humanity’s Voyeuristic Project In today’s information-rich world, we are constantly inundated by the spectacle of catastrophe and disaster in everyday television and social media. What value or role does the concept of catastrophe have in determining the actions of people and institutions? As people are often moved to offer sympathy or take action in response to images of suffering, perhaps it is valuable to consider whether their intentions are a bit more insidious and self-serving…

(Crosby 490) This domesticated, pseudo-Indian is therefore not what the First Nation community and culture are truly about, but a fictitious, romanticized interpretation; an illusory view of the indigenous. Through Crosby’s anthropology course, Crosby discovered how much more the professor knows about indigenous people, ceremonies, ritual and moral than herself who is of Haida/ Tsimshian decent. The eugenic during the first half…

“A foot and light-hearted, I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose…” In his poem Song of The Open Road, Walt Whiteman wrote an open road without preference, denial and limits, which all people can travel on to dispose of outworn routines, explore uncertainty and attain heroic deeds. Whitman’s poem reflects Americans’ fascination with the open road. In people’s imagination about the open road, they depict a panorama of…

Desire and Cemeteries, representing her inevitable downfall that stems from her unyielding wishes for intimacy and to fit into society, both created from terrible past experiences. Blanche’s existence within an endless cycle of destruction caused by illusory aspirations, which not only damage herself but the people and things around her as well, exhibits the significance of the play’s title. Along with that, the fact that she has to cope with…