Perfection

The way we as human beings view other’s lives who have the flaws of perfection may be skeptical. Life may not always be so perfect, no matter the image some give off. Sometimes the flaws could be a cover up to the real pain inside. To be known as perfection, it would be difficult to let others know you (referring to Richard) have problems and worries too. Problems and worries that cause horrible pain inside, that you dare never to relieve, only for it to ruin the image you’ve worked years for.…

‘Ending the Pursuit of Perfection,’ is an incredibly eye-opening speech given by Iskra Lawrence. Distinctly, she displays the need for self-pride and the common obstacles that prevent societies population from achieving it. Moreover, I believe the way Iskra Lawrence expressed her points was extremely impassioned and motivating in a sense that the speech left you feeling ready to overcome any obstacle in the search for self-love. Straight away, it is apparent that the speech is displaying the…

There are obvious truths about life, we are born, we live and we die. In the poem “Perfection Wasted” by John Updike he explains it a different way. He opens the poem as if he is mid-thought making the reader feel that they are entering in on the middle of a conversation: “And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic,” (1, 2). Writing it this way shows that the narrator has been going on for a while, and thus has a lot of complaints. He says that after…

the world to be perfect. “In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy” (Hawthorne). Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Aylmer’s experiments to represent man striving for perfection. Aylmer of “The Birthmark” is an accomplished scientist, but he aspires to divinity. He hints that, if he put his mind to it, he could create a human being (From Aylmer's experiment). He will do anything to remove his wife’s imperfection.…

strived to reach the ultimate perfection. Society itself is obsessed over the utopian-like idea of perfection, to the point of it seemingly being projected to people as the epiphany of their human purpose. I too, became one of the countless people who became infatuated with the idea of perfection; I tried to get the perfect grades, to write the perfect speech and to live the perfect life. I made the fatal mistake of not distinguishing between reaching excellence and perfection; and because of…

Mans unneeded journey for perfection and the knowledge to perform such acts, has been put into question throughout our existence. Our driving force for such a need is one of a primal nature, a nature that is based on arrogance, wrapped in self-importance. Once this idea of perfection has been reached, a person will then have one of two unhealthy choices to make, ether start this journey over again or admire ones work. This wide spread fixation with vanity has caused some people to conceder…

writing books. They want to tap in on our ability to create bonds with characters over shared failures. This also makes characters more enjoyable to read about, as perfect protagonist with no shortcomings become rather unengaging after a while. Perfection in a character means that everything…

A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a The Quest for Unachievable Perfection All I could hear was the pounding beats of my heart, quickening with each passing moment, my own separate universe. The digital glow of the screen glossed over the entirety of the reality around me, painting me with a ghostly appearance sitting in my desperate, anxiety-fueled state, paralyzed, the loading icon going around, and around, and around (Repetition for Effect). Ages seemed to pass as I was waiting, only to see those…

I stand alone, in my Perfection Complex. I had done it. I had seized SIVA for myself, but at what cost? To what end will my madness take me? Paledon is dead. Karbil is dead. Pathernax fled. I am alive, right here, swimming in my prize. My thinking is clear now in ways it never was before. My mind has changed ever since I gave SIVA a directive to enhance my capabilities, my combat methods, and even physique. I feel stronger. Like I could take over the entire Cosmodrome. And yet…it is not…

conditioning is put forth society remains the same” (Firchow 9). A community can be made to look as pure as possible, but mankind will always be there and always be flawed. The illusion of perfection is perpetuated by propaganda. Ironically, propaganda within Brave New World is used to extend the delusion of perfection and to prohibit outside sources from “brainwashing” the masses. Within the novel, books literature and art are forbidden, “the anxieties of society about the power of literature…