The Primal Urge

Humans come from primal ancestors, so we respond to certain stimuli with primal urges. Seeing a sexy woman in a bikini with a flirty face (stimuli) cause us to want sex. In the ad we see a stranger hand reaching into the frame and handing the beautiful lady a coke and the lady shows him gratitude with…

moral law would compel someone to put himself in harm's way to protect someone else; it would urge one to give his last piece of food to someone who was starving, even if the original man was peckish; the law would even tell you that sleeping with someone else’s wife was wrong, though it goes against your instinct to procreate. All this to say, Lewis understands that the moral law is not one of man’s primal instinct for survival, or even convenience; the law was placed in our minds by something…

Like Hobbes, William Golding is a firm believer in mankind being inherently evil. Golding’s views are expressed in his novel Lord of the Flies, in which man’s capacity for evil is exemplified through man’s primal nature. As a species man is violent. Humans have used violence throughout history in order to secure resources for themselves, things such as hunting, raiding, and fighting have been consistent throughout time. Mankind’s condition is to resort…

It all happened in a second. The difference between life and death. He chose life, even though it cost another’s. His choice was to save himself. And not his friend. His failure to save his friend K, was human error, and it was utterly inevitable. When faced with the decision to save his own life over another innocent person's life, it is reasonable to say that the survivor to say they did all they could. And he did. He made a point to call out to K and K didn’t respond. Some say that there was…

I spend a lot of my time and energy in worrying about survival. 6. My life is full of stress. 7. Security is the most important thing to me. Worries about survival and feeling desperate reflect feelings about the general insecurity surrounding physical existence, as does the feeling that life is stressful. 8. Physical existence is just something we have to suffer in order to reach a higher plane. If you checked off two or more of the above statements, you probably have some degree of…

Civilization is harmful to our happiness and it suffocates our sexual urges that lead to pleasure. Our personal happiness is often ignored due to social unity. To be civilized we must abstain from our strongest instincts violence and sex. However, in today’s society we find other outlets to sex and violence but these activities…

Dehumanization in World War I, in central Europe from 1914-1918, is one of the most gruesome events in human history. People from all over the continent adored and glorified the opportunity to enlist in the war. Although this excitement caused people to enlist, it did not continue as they started to experience the horrors of war. Soldiers participated in these wars at the expense of their humanity that they would never be able to regain. Literary works are created across the globe detailing the…

How would one act if they suddenly became stranded on an uninhabited island? Would one 's conscious being remain intact, or would their primal acts of savagery take over? Some may feel as though savagery is something foreign, but when stuck in the same conditions as the boys’ in the novel it may be easier to become something one is not, easier than one would think. Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by William Golding, about a group of boys who become members of a plane crash, after…

Plot In “The Lord Of The Flies” a group of schoolboys are trapped on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean. At first everyone stays calm and follows the rules. Then as one boy grows the urge to become chief the tribe splits in two. One boy creates a new tribe full of hunters and savages, The other keeps the old more civilized tribe. The hunters and savages have lots of food in the tribe, this results in more power and numbers. The savages grew so strong that they started to kill off…

William Shakespeare is known for creating interesting characters that are complex, that have two sides; their inner selves and outer selves differ. Hamlet is a prime example of how Shakespeare uses Illusion versus reality in his characters. Claudius, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, are all characters that show two sides to their character. Claudius, the king of Denmark is an example of how illusion versus reality can be seen. In 1.2, he acts as though he really cares for his brother…