The Primal Urge

be able to heal just about anything,” and control over time and space itself (Riddle 398). The enlightened beings can see the world in a different way, free of interspecies conflict, allowing them to make awe-inspiring creations. Humans are too primal, and thus incapable of such thinking because their need to survive trumps elevated thinking. Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, believed in a “balance of terror;” when civilizations are capable of mutual destruction there would be no more…

Complexity of Emotion: Why Violence in the Media Must Remain Unregulated Media enables humans to express emotions and experiences unique to the species. No other creature thinks, understands, or feels at nearly the same level, and as such, they show what feelings they do have impulsively and without dignity. Writing and filmmaking allows humans to rise above all this, supporting a nonaggressive approach to conveying intense emotion. A writer recreates these emotions in a work by inventing an…

polished and orderly when controlled by societal law, a savage instinct resides deep within that can be unleashed in the absence of the overriding power of government. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of boys is forced to resort to these primal instincts after their plane crashes onto an island and leaves no adult survivors. Without the presence of authority to enforce order, the boys begin to lose sight of being rescued from the island, shifting their focus to killing pigs and…

seems she’s moving a bit fast and is making decisions based on sexual desire, rather than being with him for the sake of being together. Likewise, as said in an article by Judith Orloff, “Lust is an altered state of consciousness programmed by the primal urge to procreate. Studies suggest that the brain in this phase is much like a brain on drugs.” (Page 1) The two are acting based on sensual emotion, attraction and impulse, which all happen to be associated with lustful feelings; furthermore,…

Jack represents the Id, which is the primitive, instinct component of personality. It consists of the “biological unconscious aspects of human nature”(McLeod, 2008). The id is the impulsive side of personality, which is driven by the primal and violent urges, in response to direct and immediate damages and or desires of ones surroundings. In the novel Jack represents an initial need for power and will do anything to make the boys aware of his need. For instance Jack tries to take power away from…

In Henrik Ibsen’s play, Hedda Gabler, the title character states that more than anything in life, she wants control over another human being; this desire reveals Hedda’s challenge of the mandate promulgated by patriarchy that control is the purview of males, not of females. Hedda Gabler challenges the patriarchal paradigm of control in three specific ways; her pure love of control is verified throughout the novel as she plots the lives of the people surrounding her. It is also demonstrated by…

Keith Stanovich’s The Robot’s Rebellion delves deep into the world of evolutionary psychology, stating how modern society is stuck in a technologically run programme of sorts where we are all but robots stuck in a world revolved around our most primal cognitive abilities. In the introductory pages of this novel, Stanovich draws our attention to four notable theorists, among them, philosopher Daniel Dennett who refers to the implications that modern evolutionary theory will have on the…

ignited this creature was going to kill me just as he had killed my mother and that couldn 't be tolerated. I gave into my emotions of rage and stepped forward, “Chaos you insolent fool, what you have done cannot be undone you have taken a life of a primal goddess“. I yelled except for the voice was not mine it was deeper. I looked down and saw the virtues of millennia’s of training my body was well defined armed with an axe and a shield I walked forward. “Answer me why did you kill her…

friend, Tony. Their descent into anarchy begins when a man that is not Tony jumps out of the car and starts fighting, winning with ease, until the protagonist knocks him out with a tire iron and believes that he is dead. The boys, acting solely on primal urges, come close to raping the man’s girlfriend but flee when another car pulls into the lot. The protagonist ends up in the lake, where the discovery of corpse in the water quickly sobers him. After hearing the dead man wake up and destroy…

Understanding the nature of man enables one to predict behavioral outcomes. Regardless of region, culture, background, or training, man either fights his most basic or primal urges or succumbs to them and the consequences of them. Writers realize this and use their craft to compose stories illustrating man’s victory, his struggle, his fall, and his redemption. C.S. Lewis and John Boyne differ in style; however, both enthrall readers with their unique and matchless works. Even though the authors…