Irrationality

provides an unusual insight into the nature of being through his particular exploration of the profound. The 1798 print was featured in Goya’s eighty-piece collection, Los Caprichos: a series of prints which blended satire, fantasy, hypocrisy and irrationality as a response to both the human condition and society in which he lived in (Art gallery of New South Wales, 2016). The Sleep of Reason is an etching completed with the use of a burin; painted with a mixture of aquatint and ink. On the…

During the Progressive Era, women began reforms to address issues in society, and one of the most prominent reform group was the National American Woman Suffrage Association. As president of the group, Carrie Chapman Catt actively campaigned for the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the winter of 1917, she addressed the Congress about the proposed suffrage amendment (History.com). To urge the arrogant politicians to pass the women’s suffrage amendment to…

Mortality salience and travel: Mortality salience is a subset of overall salience bias. Salience bias is defined as making decisions based on easily available information (Mullainathan & Thaler, 2000), because of its vivid, visceral nature keeping it prominent in the mind. Mortality salience, then, is individuals’ awareness of the inevitability of their own death, and the use of this knowledge in their decision-making. The possibility of death is ever-present, yet focusing too much on it causes…

on how he’s feeling at the moment, and who he’s feeling for. Romeo’s entire persona is affected by how much he loves someone at a given moment; he doesn’t know who he is without someone else to rely and reflect upon. Romeo’s impulsiveness and irrationality when it comes to love is when it comes to love is shown in his readiness to sneak into the garden of his family’s mortal enemy to see the object of his affections: “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot…

In seventeenth century England, it was extremely taboo for women to act any form of theatre, even when scripts call for a female role. Consequently, all performances, including all of Shakespeare 's works, during this era were of all male cast. Since it is no longer out of the norm for females to take part in theatre, Lisa Wolpe has directed multiple plays, in which were originally all male performances, with full female casts. One such play was her twist on Williams Shakespeare’s Twelfth…

they believe to be right, especially when unpopular, will be misunderstood, misjudged, and sadly, punished. Ralph, Piggy, and Simon fall under the category of “well-intentioned people.” Symbolism: Ralph represents rationality and Jack represents irrationality. Ralph makes decisions about building shelters and making a fire to produce a smoke signal; however, Jack makes decisions about pig-hunting (despite the fact that there was a plethora of fruits and nuts to eat) and partying. (#) Ralph’s…

Rationality is a term that most people understand as making sensible decisions and choices based on facts and the amount information someone possess in a particular situation. However, in the world of economics and psychology this term can be assumed in two different contrasts. In economics, rationality can be defined as individuals making decisions based on their self-interest as well as maximising their utility. This is also mentioned by Edgeworth (1881 p.16) where he states ‘the first…

In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, women’s systemic oppression in the 1800’s is revealed to her audience. In Gilman’s time, a girl was born into a world constructed to keep her out of certain spaces; a world that would consistently seek to control her and reduce her to a status far below the man beside her. A woman lived in a system of power hierarchies that sought to silence her. In her short story, Gilman spoke to an audience that would outlast her forever…

“At the time that the accident had taken place the village was busy gathering the lumber needed to build a new church. Alcina’s husband, who’d been working a cross-cut saw with another man was gravely injured when the saw buckled in a tree, causing the blade to kick back and run along the inner part of his leg, severing an artery. He had bled to death out in the forest in mere minutes; there was nothing any of the other men could do for him. “After the accident Alcina became, withdrawn,…

Twain uses Pap’s character as an example to validate his social ideas; therefore, Pap is indispensable in order to criticize white racists at the time the story is set. Jim’s complex and versatile character is Twain’s tool to reveal the irrationality in slavery. Even when the novel was published at a time when the war left the American society drained of the conflicts regarding African Americans; twain accomplishes to dignify Jim behind a stereotype. In the first chapters of the…