Europeans. He can see the wrongdoings that are taking place within the Congo. He keeps his humanity‚ with the risk of losing it quickly after being immersed in the new savage environment. Without set rules in a society‚ people will resort to primal instincts and their subconscious id. At one point in the novel‚ a man named Fresleven‚ who was originally a gentle man‚ soon gave into the barbaric ways within the jungle and lashed out against another man. As Barthes quote stated‚ “literature is the question
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What is the definition of hero? Is it a person who performs a courageous act? Some may say that this is so‚ but what if the act was done out of fear? What if it was done because of an instinct? Would one still be considered a hero? These are a few of many questions that we can apply to the novel‚ Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. Henry Fleming‚ the main character in the novel‚ undergoes some drastic mental and emotional changes throughout the book. He overcomes fears‚ and seems to be courageous
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either in regards for veracity and reliability‚ or being learnt or innate‚ is thought to be only recent (due to media attention and/or entertainment.) Though in fact it’s a long debate amongst the scientific community‚ dating as far back to Charles Darwin‚ specifically in a book called “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals” in which it ‘s stated that facial expressions are a learnt behaviour: “The inheritance of most of our expressive actions explains the fact that those born blind
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parts of the brain. Now‚ I can recognize which smiles are real and which are not. The process of deciding on which smiles were real or fake was interesting. I second-guessed myself multiple times‚ but I went with my instinct and realized at the end of the activity that my instincts were right for the most part. I thought that I would have a harder time at choosing between the fake and real smiles. At the beginning of the exercise‚ when it asked for my outlook on life and my optimism of differentiating
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quickly reacts and strike at the enemy with his dagger‚ fatally wounding the soldier. In a later chapter‚ Paul explains why he reacted so quickly. War has turned all the soldiers into "unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct." This primal instinct is one of survival; it is the only thing that matters during war. It allows the soldiers to remain calm in battle‚ it allows them to escape solitude‚ and aids them in survival. "As in a polar expedition‚ every expression of life must
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His pessimistic views led him to the belief that human aggression is apparent in everyday life and the relationships between one another. The unconscious forces in an individual instigate the animalistic instincts and drives‚ such as sex and aggression‚ which determine behavior. To further explain his views on humanity‚ he divided personality‚ or a human’s psyche‚ into three different forces: the id‚ the ego‚ and the superego. The id is our unconscious mind
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Nietzche and Freud both discuss the nature of will and struggle and how it relates to human existence. Nietzsche does this in his book The Gay Science book V #349 and Freud does this in Civilization and its Discontents chapter eighteen. In The gay science #349‚ Nietzsche discusses our will of power. He mentions how our will to live is our desire to want to be the best at what we do and have power. He writes “the great and small struggle always revolves around superiority‚ around growth and expansion
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The Call of the Wild is one of the masterpieces of the great American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck‚ whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous‚ frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. Principles of survival are frequently illustrated in The Call of Wild. Jack London‚ who was regarded as one of the greatest naturalist novelists
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Student Response Value True 0% Score: 0/2 5. Human beings are driven by instinct. Student Response Value True 0% Score: 0/2 6. Extraversion/introversion is common to the Big 5 and the 2 factor concepts of personality. Student Response Value True 100% Score: 2/2 7. The Id is about the immediate gratification of sexual and aggressive drives. Student Response Value True 100% Score: 2/2 8. Darwin hypothsized human emotions were important for early human communication.
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Year 10 Common Task - Semester 1‚ 2013 CLASSIC 20TH CENTURY NOVEL STUDY - LORD OF THE FLIES Originally published in 1954‚ William Golding’s _Lord of the Flies_ has become one of the classics of contemporary literature. The novel is about a group of young boys stranded alone on an island and left to fend for themselves. In an attempt to model their previous world without the influence of adults‚ the order that had once existed soon decays and is replaced by the chaos that destroys their ordered
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