The Primal Urge

Defects in One’s Own Nature Following the atrocities of World War II, William Golding believes “We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other”. Golding’s understanding of human psychology is greatly impacted by his experiences during World War II. The progressive degeneration of civilization and order can be seen through the six hunts, Jack’s totalitarianism, Simon’s ability to see the beast inside of them and Piggy’s intelligence. In the allegorical…

Professor Rotter states that “…the thought of suffocation, slow and uncontrollable, touches the deepest place of human fear. It is a primal, helpless death, one of betrayal by the silent unbreathable air; it is slow, unheroic, panic-inducing, ugly. It is not unlike death by radiation” (20). Furthermore, the Frisch–Peierls Memorandum of 1940 warned that energy from an atomic bomb explosion…

longer distance travel. Although electric vehicles do exist, Friedman, like the American narrator of Ecotopia, would likely scoff at the transportation, believing that “the primitive and underpowered” Ecotopian modes of transport “can’t satisfy the urge of speed and freedom” present driving on an American highway. The entirety of Friedman’s works have demonstrated a staunch belief that it is the independent choice to struggle against…

In One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the facility can be considered an isolated dystopian world. Both worlds rely on drugs to keep the people in order and to keep their emotions repressed. In OFOTCN, their primal urges are repressed in order to keep the patients in line and the asylum in order. In BNW, the characters are encouraged to act on their sexual impulse to keep them happy and to distract them from the things that have been taken away from them. Both…

This manifestation is the superego, or, in layman's terms, the conscience. The superego absorbs the moral values we are taught by society, and controls the urges of the id and ego; it turns them from simply pleasurable goals to moral goals. When we apply this to the story we see that Pi may just have projected these concepts on to the people surviving with him to be able to comprehend and accept the goal…

Psychodynamic Approach Comparison Essay Life stories are as unique to an individual as their fingerprints. Holding a distinct blend of events, feelings, experiences and interpersonal relationships (Neukrug, 2011), personal stories of the human experience are always told from the private perspectives of the narrator. Frequently, specific events and experiences from childhood are consciously hidden from others out of fear, embarrassment, shame or guilt and in some cases, accounts of notable…

exist in this novel have little to no control of their own lives due to government-controlled predestination and are discriminated against as a result of this. Furthermore, human interactions have become emotionless, solely used to satisfy sexual urges and physical desires, which is a loss of a key characteristic of humanity. Without freedom of one’s own life to do as they please or meaningful relations with other people solely due to fear of ostracization, you’ll end up with a somewhat empty…

chimpanzees were not able to perfectly pass the test, effectively proving humanity alone possesses the ability to fully understand the individuality of the mind. However, despite being alone in the ability to distinguish individuals, people still find primal comfort in conformity, and will reject their ability to recognize…

How does the Imperialism Control People? How does the imperialism differs when a hundred years has passed? Did the essence and future of imperialism in the postcolonial world changed? Nearly a hundred year ago in 1899, Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness and gave no accurate answer; now that years passed, the novel had been reproduced as the film Apocalypse Now Redux and presents a single pessimistic view. Though the geographical location and exploiting methods was transferred, the endless…

104). When the time comes to investigate the castle rock, Ralph takes the lead alone, despite his fear of the so-called beast. Even in this tense moment, politeness is his default. Although Ralph becomes tattered out by the deprivation and horrors of primal life and is gingerly contaminated by the savagery of the other boys, Ralph is the only character who sees Simon's death as murder and has a practical, bare perspective of his participation. He feels both sorrow and thrill over the kill he…