Suffering

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broke, but-I-hope into a better shape” (Dickens). Throughout the novel Great Expectations, the character Pip is like a bird trying to fly, but can’t take off until he accepts himself as he is. Ironically, the woman who never loves him, the woman he loves, and the men who love him cause Pip the most suffering. Suffering from Mrs. Joe, the unrequited love of…

Thinking about my life, there is one moment that can be perceived as “suffering”. When I was 10 years old, during January of 5th grade, I was in the hospital for 3 days. I went there due to difficulty breathing through my nose, as well as my vision fading to blackness and me not being able to see. I was diagnosed with pneumonia, but I remember there being tests on my brain as well for some other problem. To this day, despite having 3 MRI’s since the hospital ordeal, I don’t fully know what that…

book Night by Elie Wiesel, Darfur Genocide and Syrian Refugee all show that when a person's responsibility when confronted with another suffering is to help them but sometime the situation that we are, and can affect if we are going to help the person or not. Sometime were are in position where we choose not to do something when we know that someone is suffering because we know that something bad will happen. For example, In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie's dad asked Elie to give him…

of the times they will lead to suffering because they will not be achieved. Moreover, he would say that our life projects and what we plan for ourselves are also outside of our control, and they are just illusions which makes us believe that some things are good for us and achievable when in fact they are not. Thus, it does not bring real happiness. To conclude, I disagree with Buddha about the Second Noble Truth. I do not think that desires are the cause of suffering, but a…

Suffering in Silence Guilt is a universal human experience. Stealing food from other family members, telling a white lie, forgetting a close friend’s birthday, cheating on your significant other - these are examples of situations that cause guilt to different degrees. The varying intensity of guilt dictates how one allows their action to effect them. In some cases, guilt hardly has an affect on an individual, while in others it can crush a person. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne…

Roskolnikov’s suffering contrasted to Sonya’s suffering In the book Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roskolnikov is suffering from the murder of Alyona and Lizaveta he committed. No one knows it was him who committed this horrendous crime but he is tormented by the fear of being exposed. The only person he loves and trusts with this information is Sonya. Sonya suffers just like him, but the reasons and ways in which they suffer are extremely different. Sonya is suffering…

with bee stings, people would also no longer have flowers. Getting rid of the pain and suffering of the world would not be worth the inevitable loss in beauty and emotion. Everything is in balance, and it is impossible to have something good without there also being something bad. In The Giver we see a society that has made the decision to destroy emotions, choices, and differences in order to end pain and suffering. At first this world seems like a utopia, no one argues or has pain, but in…

their misery and release them of their suffering. Both of the poems “O the Chimneys”…

against the idea that God is Omnibenevolent. As Hume had concluded, “...the existence of suffering is prima facie evidence against the Deity as described”(Churchland 1986, p.379). “Why is there so much misery?”Hume asked(Churchland 1986, p.379). According to Hume, there is an explanation for the existence of misery and suffering; God knows people are suffering but prefers not to help. Disasters, pains, and sufferings are common phenomena all over the world. We cannot ignore the truth that…

with his little “helpers” burning through the pits of hell. You may further fill in the picture with other beastly devils that roam around torturing damned sinners who will never see light of day, or those who turn cry out with pain, regret, and suffering. In Dante’s epic poem known as the Divine Comedy, he creates a unreal version of himself as he travels through the farthest reaches of hell (Inferno), purgatory and paradise In the second circle of Hell are those overcome by lust They are…