Stoicism

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” by Colin Wilson has a very strong meaning to it. Wilson is challenging the average man by stating that what he does is insufficient and that the average man should do more. He says that the average man just accepts it when bad things happen to him and he doesn’t do anything about it. Personally, I think that he is challenging people like the ones in his quote to step up and do…

For example, I happened to have some belly fat, so I was “Pudge”. One of my friends had really bad teeth, so we called him “Father McPlaquey.” The list goes on. What this dynamic taught me, and I would venture to assume, all of us, is the power of stoicism, “acting tough,” and holding back emotion. Even though the things we may have said or did to each other hurt inside, there was not a chance any of us would ever express that pain. A lack of emotional expressiveness is something I still…

52). The dynamics of the military fortress is categorized within three concepts; secrecy, stoicism and denial. Secrecy amongst military members and families is an unspoken oath. Many crimes and mishaps happen that the civilian world will never find out or know the truth as to what happened. This is true especially in the homes. What happens…

Described within the poem Horace shares or “sings” to Pompeius, his friend, a welcoming. This poem entails the friendship shared between the two during their enlistment in the war on the side of Brutus as well as during the breaks between of the Battle of Philippi. Horace initially explains how the poor leadership of Brutus led to the demise of the army, its people and the battle. He continues to explain how he had fled early in the war while Pompeius had decided to remain behind, continuing to…

The first person I chose to interview was my paternal grandfather. I felt that my grandfather had an interesting insight and perspective on death due to his age and culture. Typically in the Hindu faith, the eldest son takes care of the grandparents up until death which I have witness first hand. Other cultural expectations led my grandfather through intriguing and difficult experiences with death. His first experience of death was a rather drastic lost in his nuclear family. His father was a…

one of the fatalities. Finally, his secrecy and embarrassment of private matters become his ammunition and never return after they leave his gun. However, a value for bravery and loyalty sprouts within him. The violence of war nurtures his newfound stoicism. Finally, the blood of his fallen friends feeds his honesty. In Good-Bye to All That, Robert Graves suppresses the values of a prep-school kid during World War 1 and replaces them with new ones he found while fighting in the trenches. Graves…

Although Brutus, Antony, and Cassius have many differences, they are also alike in some aspects. They all have a certain need for power throughout the story. Antony as well as Cassius both are extremely manipulative also. Antony uses certain words and emotions to win people over in his speech at Caesar’s funeral. He completely convinces the whole crowd to riot and revolt against all of the conspirators. During his speech, he uses solely emotions and persuades the crowd in a short amount of time.…

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disaster with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain,” said by Colin Wilson. A conformist is a person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices and stoicism is the endurance of pain or hardship without display of feelings and without complaint. This quote is meaning, like cows in the rain we are often paralyzed not by a lack of will, but fear of an imagined outcome. A conformist is someone that goes with the flow, and…

A major theme is the play is persuasion, persuasion is in many way involved throughout the play. It seems that everyone tries to convince someone else of something. Caesar tries to create an image in the public's mind of his crowing, an ancient form of spin doctoring. Cassius finds the best way to manipulate each man is to bring them to his side, and Brutus, we hope will refuse to participate, takes longer than the others to…

When the Roman Empire arose, the Greek culture and religion was very prominent in Rome. The Romans were so inspired by the Greek Culture that they re-named all of the Greek gods in Greek Mythology and claimed the new and improved religion as their own. The Romans built massive temples dedicated to the Gods whenever the Gods did something in their favor. One famous temple is called the Pantheon and is found in Rome. The Pantheon worships all of the major Gods, including Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto,…