Instinct

the myth of family love. When her family is chosen to supply the victim, Jackson pushes Tessie 's survival instinct to the most shameful level by having her turn on her own flesh and blood. Tessie desperately tries to improve her odds for survival by defying tradition and adding her married daughter to the killing pool” (227). Jackson illustrates how survival instinct wins over maternal instinct and proves that this family was chosen by the destiny for a reason and the protagonist deserves to…

Social conformity is the phenomenon when an individual follows decisions made by the majority. This type of social influence may also be referred to as peer pressure in more juvenile situations. The article and the clips cover many interesting aspects of social conformity, and just how vital it may be to understand it. I was quite baffled by the “What Were You Thinking?” clips presented by NBC Dateline. Some of the examples were certainly theatrical in my opinion. At the begining of a clip,…

The MLK’s Drum Major Instinct sermon was played during King’s funeral (4TruthAndJustice, 2007) In the Drum Major Instinct sermon encouraged everyone to achieve greatness and ask everyone to remember King for love, justice, and commitment (4TruthAndJustice, 2007). The King showed the power of nonviolence. In the article,…

moral restriction, he only focuses on the negative aspects and disregards the positivity that can come from these constraints. Lastly, I argue that Freud exaggerates his claims about the nature of humans, and wrongly universalizes the suppression of instincts as a burden to all individuals. Freud might object to my arguments in a number of different ways. For instance, he might say that the negative aspects of human…

allowing people to make moral decisions and not rational decisions. The id, ego, and superego establish human’s personality and it is what makes all humans different. The Id part of our personality, according to Freud, can be known as our natural instincts or the unconscious side of our personality. The…

“tension”. Aggression also related to the aggressive act. Aggression often defines as the actions that cause harm and victim. Aggression includes in one of the psychological symptoms that occur in human unconsciousness. Almost similar with death instinct, aggression arises unconsciously in the human mind. It accumulates from the certain emotion that unexpressed later exploding in the aggressive acts or behaviors. (Geen. 2001) Bushman and Anderson define human…

In the fictional novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of school boys are trapped on an island due to a plane crash. The boys struggle to maintain peace and order amongst themselves because of the immense chaos created by the beast on island. The disorder leads to the death of two boys, Simon and Piggy. Likewise, in the movie The Maze Runner, directed by Wes Ball, several boys are trapped in a small area called the Glades by the organization WCKD, World Catastrophe Killzone…

No matter how much the animals are trained or how much trust there is between a wild animal and its trainer it will never be tamed. The animals will always have wild animal instincts. Instincts to hunt and kill. Cause of that they will never be “domesticated” or “tame.” For example, in Mexico a trainer was killed by one of the bengal tigers. He was bitten viciously and scratched. Every year captive animals are a part of incidents…

Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country.” He decides to ignore the advice given to him by an expert to not go through with the trip. His ego, and his desire to prove himself victorious, has taken over his instincts and sense…

In To Build a Fire by Jack London, London was trying to portray a conflict between youth and arrogance as opposed to wisdom and experience. The main character is a young man who believes that he knows the frozen wilderness, but he is still a newcomer who has not yet learned to respect the power of nature. London shows early in the story that the young man lacks imagination, an asset he sorely needs when tested to the extreme by the harsh wilderness. The man’s egotism and greed are in conflict…