stupidity and ignorance? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on the issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading‚ studies‚ experience or observations. (1) The differences between stupidity and ignorance are many. Stupidity is the state of being unable to become intelligent. Ignorance is the state of being not informed. Stupidity is complete; ignorance can be partial. Stupidity does not know of its own stupidity. Ignorance sometimes
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Although both ’Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ’Who’s for the Game’ were written during the great war‚ both poem had opposing view points. Both Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope were inspired to write due to the war but Wilfred Owen fought in the western front while Jessie Pope stayed in the comfort of the home front. ’Who’s for the Game’ gave young men false impressions of war while ’Dulce et Decorum Est’ showed readers the grim realities of war. Jessie Pope’s ’Who’s for the Game was written to recruit young
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“sight” in the play and his coexisting “blindness” are both inherent to the development of Oedipus throughout the play. Sight and blindness are important themes in the play Oedipus the King‚ in the scene where Tiresias talks with Oedipus sight is meant to represent knowledge and blindness ignorance‚ but at the end of the play when Oedipus cuts out his eyes‚ Sophocles gives the two themes an inverse relationship and sight is meant to represent ignorance and blindness knowledge. Oedipus believes himself
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through a minefield. However‚ we often tend to approach “sight” and “blindness” from very literal perspective. Whereas Sophocles‚ in his play Oedipus Rex‚ approaches the sight-blind dichotomy metaphorically. Sophocles associates sight with possession of prophecy and knowledge while connecting blindness to ignorance‚ using Tiresius and Oedipus as physical representations of the latter and former. Sophocles uses sight and blindness to establish that humans are natural drawn to the unknown and that insight
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Becca Yoder Henderson English 201 21 April 2011 Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? - Rhetorical Analysis “How on earth could a society make such an obviously disastrous decisions as to cut down all the trees on which it depended?” was the question that started Jared Diamonds urge to do further research on societal collapses (392). His urge to write about this topic resulted from a conversation he had about the collapse of Easter Island society. In this piece of Diamonds
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underscores the themes of human ignorance and godlike knowledge. Sophocles uses dramatic irony to stress the theme of ignorance. Oedipus is unaware that he is the plague to Thebes. For example‚ when Oedipus acknowledges that a curse has struck Thebes‚ he asserts: “I know too well‚ you all are sick‚ yet sick‚ not one so sick as I‚” (Oedipus. prologue. Oedipus. lines 68-70). Here‚ Oedipus merely claims
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kingdom that raised him. On his road away‚ he ends up killing a group of men which leads him to another kingdom. There he marries the dead king’s wife‚ little does Oedipus realize he had killed his father and married his mother. Sophocles uses the blindness motif in this play‚ in order to explain how the truth can be too much for people to bear
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This can be seen in Sophocles play “Oedipus rex” where the protagonist Oedipus chooses to be blind to the truth ‚ and choose to make impulsive decisions‚ which leads to his tragic fate . thus oedpipus is the architechure of his own fate. Oedipus blindness to the truth is a factor that affects his fate. This can be seen when odp tells Jocasta about the incident in python ‚ “I went to python; but came back disappointed of the answer to the question I asked ‚ having heared instead a tale of horror and
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In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” a blind man (Robert) opens the eyes of the narrator that is blinded by ignorance. In the beginning of the story the narrator points out numerous faults of the other characters. This would lead the reader to believe that the narrator has it all together. It is soon discovered that behind the narrator’s ignorant accusations there is a plethora of blindness‚ ignorance‚ and jealousy. Robert is really the most capable person in this story even though he is portrayed as a
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situation when he develops a relationship with a disabled man. Society has shaped many people to believe that a person with a difference is undesirable‚ or unable to fit in with the ‘normal’ people. With a blind house guest arriving‚ the narrator’s ignorance is shown as he makes judgments and assumptions that society shaped for him. Originally acting as a gorgon due to his inability to recognize his dispassion‚ the man
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