Emotions, the Key to Our Flaws
Emotional Human Behavior is one of the Greatest Flaw of Humanity
In our humanity, violence is a great flaw. Violence is the reason why we humans caused suffering to this planet and to each other. Greed, revenge and envy are 3 of the 7 deadly sins that are most of the time expressed through violence. But at the very beginning of the sins, we started it through our anger that we cannot control. For example: revenge is caused by anger, envy is jealousy and greed can be caused by fear. Fear is an emotion that is used as basic survival mechanism, but has also proven that it can lead to an act of violence. The Bet by Anton Chekhov, the Hobbyist by Fredric Brown and Lock and Key by Rush have shown great example that emotional human behavior is one the greatest flaw of humanity.
The Hobbyist is about a man named Sangstrom who plans to buy poison from a druggist to kill his wife. But instead, he gets poisoned by the druggist, pays a thousand dollars for the antidote and cannot kill his wife without going to jail. The irony is that he went to the pharmacy to get poison and when he went to get the poison to kill someone else, he gets poisoned himself. There is also wordplay in the story because the man who wants to kill his wife is named Sangstrom. In French sang means blood, if you replace sang with blood, it makes bloodstrom, which almost sounds like blood storm. When Sangstrom got poisoned, he took out a gun with rage. Fearlessly, the druggist said “you daren’t use that. Can you find the antidote among those thousands of bottles? Or if you think I’m bluffing, that you are not really poisoned, go ahead and shoot. You’ll know the answer within three hours when the poison starts to work.” Then Sangstrom dropped the gun. If it weren’t for what the druggist said, Sangstrom would have killed the druggist for revenge and would have died later on. If it weren’t for Sangstrom anger and revenge to kill his wife in the first place, he wouldn’t have been poisoned or would
In our humanity, violence is a great flaw. Violence is the reason why we humans caused suffering to this planet and to each other. Greed, revenge and envy are 3 of the 7 deadly sins that are most of the time expressed through violence. But at the very beginning of the sins, we started it through our anger that we cannot control. For example: revenge is caused by anger, envy is jealousy and greed can be caused by fear. Fear is an emotion that is used as basic survival mechanism, but has also proven that it can lead to an act of violence. The Bet by Anton Chekhov, the Hobbyist by Fredric Brown and Lock and Key by Rush have shown great example that emotional human behavior is one the greatest flaw of humanity.
The Hobbyist is about a man named Sangstrom who plans to buy poison from a druggist to kill his wife. But instead, he gets poisoned by the druggist, pays a thousand dollars for the antidote and cannot kill his wife without going to jail. The irony is that he went to the pharmacy to get poison and when he went to get the poison to kill someone else, he gets poisoned himself. There is also wordplay in the story because the man who wants to kill his wife is named Sangstrom. In French sang means blood, if you replace sang with blood, it makes bloodstrom, which almost sounds like blood storm. When Sangstrom got poisoned, he took out a gun with rage. Fearlessly, the druggist said “you daren’t use that. Can you find the antidote among those thousands of bottles? Or if you think I’m bluffing, that you are not really poisoned, go ahead and shoot. You’ll know the answer within three hours when the poison starts to work.” Then Sangstrom dropped the gun. If it weren’t for what the druggist said, Sangstrom would have killed the druggist for revenge and would have died later on. If it weren’t for Sangstrom anger and revenge to kill his wife in the first place, he wouldn’t have been poisoned or would