Essays on Human Nature

Literary texts are a pervasive medium for expressing opinion about the human condition and, as a result, common moral and ethical messages are found across a diverse range of stories. The novels Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Kafka on the Shore are…

Introduction Violence is the primitive harsh desire that exists in all kinds of creatures. Violence is everywhere. It lives in human genes in various forms: crime, war, blind obedience. Even if humans define themselves as intelligent species, this is human nature and cannot change. In…

Anger is a strong emotional response. This is a mood that includes ‘strong dissatisfaction, usually hostility’. Anger arises when a person feels that their personal boundaries are or will be violated. Angry people also experience physical conditions, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure,…

Kindness is fundamental to human existence and affects one’s mental and physiological health. The straightforward act demands little work and originates from simply doing no harm to others. The positive effects of kindness on others mental health include reducing pain, depression and anxiety, and overall…

In the 1960s, psychologists identified six stages of human grief, particularly regarding dying and loss: denial; isolation; anger; bargaining; depression; and, finally, acceptance. But Hemingway wrote ‘Hills’ in 1927, therefore Hemingway must have had an apparently innate understanding, and dramatization, of these stages of grief….

As Yoshida Kenko said “Ambition never comes to an end.” In the famous play Macbeth by Shakespeare, ambition is an imperative factor to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s sinful behaviors. Macbeth’s ambition was provoked by the three witches, but when he hesitated, Lady Macbeth reproach him…

Humans cannot be conditioned to not hate one another; hate and selfishness are a part of human nature. It is impossible to remove a certain emotion and simply replace it with another; it is impossible to quickly remove greed from one’s heart and replace it…

Ethics is the philosophy of how people make moral decisions and how they affect us as humans. The values that society holds help us determine our ethical stance and shape our own character traits and who we are as a person. Similar to virtue ethics…

People have a tendency to become extremely motivated in the pursuit of seeking out revenge on others for various reasons – from something mediocre to an extreme. Revenge is the forceful desire to inflict hurt or harm to another for a wrong suffered at their…

It seems that the question of who am I becoming is the hardest question to answer. I ought to ask myself this question every day. It is a problem that makes me evaluate my future, and what that entails to me. I divide my life…