Motive

Oluseyi Akinbami once said, “Every man’s heart speaks, where no one can see, it reveals the motives for our actions, and many times the motives are not good.” In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” the Younger family is one full of ambition. Each member of the family has a goal in life that they wish to achieve. For Ruth and Lena (Mama) Younger, this goal seems to present itself as the desire for family bonding. For Beneatha Younger, success in the medical field seems to be prominent. Finally, for Walter Younger, he dreams for success in the purchase of a liquor store. Each of the characters have differing ideas of how to achieve their individual goals. Additionally, each has different motives behind their dreams. The degree…

The Incomplete Characterization of Motives In Confessions, Augustine stated that the motive behind all actions was lust of different types. He divided lust into three categories: lust for domination, lust of the eyes, and lust for sensuality. Augustine defined lust for domination as the desire to control people or properties. Lust of the eyes was the desire to satiate the senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. Augustine argued that lust for sensuality was the desire for enjoyment, or…

Macbeth edited by Kenneth Muir The plays of Shakespeare like Macbeth are exceptional types of literature works. In the literature activities that Macbeth has, he shows the great utilization of motifs. The play is short but is utilizing intense themes of different motives in the development of the play. The game is using the various ideas of topics to intensify its development (Muir). The central theme that the play utilizes is the motif of blood and water. The power of the central themes of…

During the initial class reading and study of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Othello” I thought that the clear motive for Iago stemmed from his jealousy that he felt towards Michael Cassio and that he resented the general Othello for appointing Cassio over him. However, after studying and analysing several different critical analysis’ of “Othello” I came to the conclusion that the real motive for Iago is actually one of the more debated topics in all of literature. And as such have…

A country’s thirst for power, which is the ability to control people, has always been great. To achieve the goal of becoming the best and most powerful country there is. To be able to control people like puppets, and when the country becomes strong and powerful imperialism occurs. The stronger country takes advantage of the weaker country and dominates them either socially, economically, and politically, if not all. Other motives for imperialism have been that as the countries become more…

Motives are things that drive each person to live, do better in school, or a job, in their marriage, and maybe eat better for a healthier life. I think some motives for me would be to do better in college, so I don 't get behind on my assignments, and things of that nature. In addition, getting married, and having a job are a few other motives of mine. I am a huge family person, and I love hearing other people 's stories of how they met their significant other, which then gets me excited for my…

American Imperialism Imperialism was defined as building an empire (Bagley). According to Stearns, there were several motives behind the spread of imperialism. One motive was to establish cultural superiority, which was enforced mainly by American and Europe. Another motive was to establish a particular religion in other countries such as the spread of Christianity. A major reason behind imperialism was economic gains, which was evident in America (Stearns 423). American imperialism was based…

In Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Kant, 2005) state that only action done from the motive of duty have moral worth. Other philosophers such as Ross, consequentialists and virtue ethic would criticize this. In this essay, I would argue that not only actions from the motive of duty have moral worth. According to Kant, the good is defined by the right and good will is when decision are determined by the moral law. This is because all other desirable quality of character are conditional…

Adolf Hitler is the world's biggest terror from making the Jews suffer in concentration camps to the outright slaughter of the Jewish people. Although historians have many theories what his motives were none of them were proven true. Adolf Hitler was actually a normal human before he became the biggest terror the world has ever seen. Adolf Hitler before he became fuhrer, is a very interesting time for us to study. It was April 20,1989 in upper Austria at Braunau am Inn. The fourth child that…

In this world we are all striving to be something, we all have motive and reason. While we all know this simple fact and statement, something that is simply not quite well known is that there are only for core motives that are in the world. Now this might come as a shock to most that out of the seven point two billion people on this earth there are only four core motives that are distributed between us. The method in the madness comes from the one and only Dr. Taylor Hartman, after years of…