Irrationality

The view of women has been adapting for the most part, with the times. The patriarchal society we once knew we can see slowly diminishing. Today, women, in a legal standpoint, have just about the same rights as men. Of course, it wasn’t always like this. Women weren’t allowed to receive an education, vote, play sports, have access to contraception, and they were expected to marry at young ages as well as raise a family. Historically, ancient Greece is known for the separation of men and women…

François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, is an outspoken yet fearless writer. Voltaire has a comical imagination that catches the attention of his readers. He displays his comical imagination in his book, Candide. In his comical imagination, he shows Candide as well as his friends throughout the book. Voltaire uses a picaresque narrative style to depict the adventures of the hero and proganist of the book, Candide. Voltaire writes Candide using a picaresque narrative. Picaresque…

The evolution of punishment practices with time has been influenced by the underlying justification for the punishment: namely utilitarian, retributivist, or a combination of the two. The concept of general deterrence utilizes the threat of punishment to deter society from crime, and the reasoning behind punishment based on those grounds will be examined in this essay. Rehabilitation rationale will also be analyzed to highlight the respective strength of general deterrence and retribution in…

early in the play causes Hamlet to become consumed with the desire for revenge and therefore sets off a series of events that end in a sizable amount of collateral damage. Because of Hamlet’s paranoia and desire to kill King Claudius, he acts with irrationality. For instance, when Hamlet is in a meeting with his mother in her bedroom, his insanity drives him to stab who he thinks is King Claudius but actually is Polonius. This sets Laertes off on his own burst of revenge and sends Ophelia into a…

Much of the eighteenth century literature in Britain is characterized by satire. Satire was used by authors for a variety of reasons: to mock the current social status of Britain, poke fun of the rising trend known as Feminism, and even criticize political readers. Authors realized that for various reasons they could not directly state their disposition with society. Therefore, satire is different than mocking because instead of addressing an issue directly, writers used satire to mock things in…

Throughout the 20th century, John Cage was often considered by many to be the central voice of avant-garde music. Uniting composition with philosophy, he recreated the surface of modern music. For Cage, the 1950s brought him a sequence of critical events that both developed him as a composer and brought him much fame, or notoriety to some. He had a strong interest in Eastern Zen philosophy, a subject that is reinforced and incorporated in all of his musical works, which grew throughout the…

Throughout history, mankind has proven to never stray away from the act of sinning. Humans remain corrupt and greedy while struggling to discover the true quintessence of life, leaving society in a state of conformity to accepted values. During the 19th century, Romantic texts flourished through American literature causing people to self-reflect and consider the more important matters in life. However, societal failings written by authors at the time still remain in modern America. In Edgar…

sometimes difficult to contain feelings and listen to the voice of reason. Such struggle is endured by Victor and his creature in the novel Frankenstein; both individuals are carried away by their overpowering passion that they do not see the irrationality behind their motives. Victor asserts that “[His] application soon became so ardent and eager, that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst [he] was yet engaged in [his] laboratory”, showing how his passion consumed him and…

In the series Six Feet Under, the underlying color scheme is muted and cold. The strategic use of color in the series coincides with the underlying theme of death throughout the show. The first instance of the dark color scheme is shown during the show’s theme song, in the theme song there are many items that appear in gray, brown, and white colors. The flowers in the opening song of the show start off with bright green and pink colors, which quickly turn to dark brown dull colors as the flowers…

According to Kant’s suggestion, people must treat themselves and others always as ends and never only as means. People ought to act only by maxims. Making reasonable judgement, we can apply this formula to any maxim (Cronshaw, 2012). There are few irrationalities and contradictions. Few acts are forbidden such as lying because it destroys the trust among humans. Saying false things must never be done although in the practical world, this has to happen as we tend to speak false sometimes.…