The Human Condition In Lord Of The Flies

Today, I was retaught the lesson of “be careful what you wish for”. I am getting a puppy in the next few days and I’ve been thinking about convincing my dad to let me get one next year. Thinking on it now, I’m not that much different from the puppy. We both have the capacity to love, hate, fear, remember, forget, and are so similar, but where are we different I wonder. The human condition is the ability or capacity to love, hate, fear, feel emotions, think for ourselves, and in many ways it is not just the human condition. It (the human condition) is the ability to move past a primitive state and to become conscious of who we are, what we are, and things we can do beyond basic survival. We humans use music, art, and stories to tell and to express
One not so great thing we have done is shown humanity’s dark side in The Crucible. In this we are shown the way we will turn on each other in an instant to get attention or to make us feel better about people we dislike. The girls in this book cried witch on nearly everyone to get rid of people who did not think the same as them or who they did not like. We also see the destruction that a mob mentality can cause in Lord of the Flies. The group of boys went savage for a while, even going as far as killing one of their own my smushing him with a giant boulder. They acted like it was cool to run around like animals but regretted it later. They were originally normal boys who had some fun and forgot their own wills and consciences. In Hiroshima, we knowingly set loose atomic bombs that caused mass destruction and despair for generations to come. Pain, fear, anger. These are all emotions that help to make up the human condition and the survivors of this event experienced things we could never begin to
The old man believes with all of his being that this is his purpose in life and by-god he will catch the fish even if it kills him. His emotional and physical struggles prove without a doubt that he is a genuine human being who lives with the human condition and is not like the fish fighting on pure instinct. We commonly hear that “if you truly love someone, you will put them first without regard to yourself”. We see Cyrano doing exactly that in Cyrano De Bergerac. He loves Roxane and puts her wishes and happiness before his own by helping Christian growwwwwl her. He writes speeches of his love for Christian to say to Roxane because that is what she wants in a man, both looks and amazing charisma. When Cyrano dies he accidently lets off that he was the one whose words Roxane fell in love with, showing that it is not always good to put others first, but even Cyrano was only