Divergent Viewpoints and Complexity of Human Nature
Essay
-How the representation of divergent viewpoints lead us to a greater awareness of the complexity of human attitude and behaviour.
Human nature is complex as everyone have different ways of perceiving particular events and factors such as memories and motive easily affect how such events are perceived. The truth of an event is usually hard to grasp as the facts are bent towards the person’s will and can be easily affected by the clarity of the memory. In the poem “Sam” the composer revealed events based on his perspectives and understanding of the past event. In “Full bright scholars” illustrates the tendency to selectively remember and create our own perception of the truth. By incorporating poetic and figurative devices the truth is perceived differently by different people, thus causing diverging viewpoints which demonstrate human complexity.
The truth is easily manipulated by an individual in order to satisfy their motives. In “Sam”, the composer introduces with the repetition “You Lost” which suggests that his wife was inferior, in comparison with the persona. Also the repetition of condescending rhetorical questions such as “what saved you?” and “how did you cling on?” further emphasises her inferiority and luck. He also utilises the overstatement “you saw only blur” to convey her ignorance and lack of understanding of the situation. This is contradictory as the persona was not even witness the event and especially being able to perceive what she saw. Thus, the composer’s perception of the truth was a compilation of what he would like it to be in order to create subjective impressions of his wife.
Memory affects how we perceive the truth and causes inconsistency of the information to support the truth as our memory can change or fade overtime. The continuation of rhetorical questions “did you have a helmet?” demonstrates the doubt and unreliability of his memory of the event. The metaphoric representation “That gallop was practice, but not enough,
-How the representation of divergent viewpoints lead us to a greater awareness of the complexity of human attitude and behaviour.
Human nature is complex as everyone have different ways of perceiving particular events and factors such as memories and motive easily affect how such events are perceived. The truth of an event is usually hard to grasp as the facts are bent towards the person’s will and can be easily affected by the clarity of the memory. In the poem “Sam” the composer revealed events based on his perspectives and understanding of the past event. In “Full bright scholars” illustrates the tendency to selectively remember and create our own perception of the truth. By incorporating poetic and figurative devices the truth is perceived differently by different people, thus causing diverging viewpoints which demonstrate human complexity.
The truth is easily manipulated by an individual in order to satisfy their motives. In “Sam”, the composer introduces with the repetition “You Lost” which suggests that his wife was inferior, in comparison with the persona. Also the repetition of condescending rhetorical questions such as “what saved you?” and “how did you cling on?” further emphasises her inferiority and luck. He also utilises the overstatement “you saw only blur” to convey her ignorance and lack of understanding of the situation. This is contradictory as the persona was not even witness the event and especially being able to perceive what she saw. Thus, the composer’s perception of the truth was a compilation of what he would like it to be in order to create subjective impressions of his wife.
Memory affects how we perceive the truth and causes inconsistency of the information to support the truth as our memory can change or fade overtime. The continuation of rhetorical questions “did you have a helmet?” demonstrates the doubt and unreliability of his memory of the event. The metaphoric representation “That gallop was practice, but not enough,