Augustine believes that God had intended for man to obey God and woman to obey both God and man. He also thought that God intended there to be a hierarchy between body and soul. The soul, being rational, moral and capable of understanding was to be the ruler of the body and govern the spiritual part of a human. Prior to his conversion, Augustine follows the Manicheans beliefs that physical matter is an evil force distracting the pure soul. However,...
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Tennessee Williams was a profound author of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire. He portrayed a realistic outlook on the standard New Orleans life, in which both gender roles and social expectations defined the way world functions. With the everchanging roles that one has, the position one is in will never be the same as the one that they last stood in. This can be vividly shown through one character named Stella, whom struggles between decisions that she is forced...
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In the problem of free will, the higher order theory exists as an attempt to defend compatibilism. Even if all of our desires are derived causally from the laws of nature, some philosophers argue that we still have free will if we have the ability to form desires and the agency to act on these desires. Wanting to do a particular thing is a first order desire. Wanting to want or not want this thing is a second order desire...
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“The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter is a criticism of moralistic and pious ideologies surrounding sexuality and its repression expressed through the liminality of Little Red Ridding Hood, who, throughout the story, shifts from being the innocent, naïve girl to becoming the woman society fears the most- a powerful, enchanting, she-devil, witch. At the story’s conclusion, Little Red breaks the shackles of her repression, accepting herself as an outcast, embracing the liminal quality of desire also reflected in her...
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Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre created quite a stir when it was published, under a false male pseudonym, in the mid 1840’s. This novel introduced the idea of the individualize women and how feminism was shifting throughout this time. She explores the undermining sexual innuendos hidden in Jane’s actions throughout the Victorian Era. From orphanhood to marriage, she shows growth in her sense of self. Jane has contradictory desires to be both independent and to serve a strong-willed man. Passion and...
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Desire simply means a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment. Desire simply means want. A strong feeling to possess something or having the yearning for some event to happen is desire. Our desires show our priorities which shape up the choices we make. Our actions should be based on the choices made in order to fulfil our desires. Remember to have a positive desires and ambitions. The Heart Is the Store House of All Emotions...
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In Molly Peacock’s poem “Desire” she talks about the desire the human body has. She mentions many aspects of desire by using metaphors and personification. Desire is one of those things that ends up getting everyone into trouble at one point. This poem explains the reason why, it is uncontrollable and instinctual. It comes and goes without logical thought and it does not matter whether or not it makes sense, you want what your heart wants. This can be a...
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Understanding the distinction between affection versus desire can be very dubious. Particularly on the grounds that desire is the normal and first period of most sentimental connections and can last as long as two years (at any rate that is the thing that the specialists need to state). It’s the principal period of ‘affection’ however it doesn’t in every case frequently form into a caring sentimental relationship. In any case, when you are seeing someone in the event that you...
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What makes a society civilized? This question has been asked for thousands of years but it can never be truly answered because of many conflicting opinions and influencing factors. Yet it’s still a widely discussed and debated topic, that is popular in literature. Odysseus’s adventures in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, portrays his idea of civilization as the ability to fulfill one’s desire, while savagery is depicted as the life of necessity. The idea of necessity vs. desire is depicted...
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In literature, Desire is often manipulated by writers and poets in order to build their characters and story, as can be seen in Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Donne’s ‘The Flea’. However, much like how the former two pieces use desire to subvert what are commonly seen as more ‘powerful’ themes such as religion, desire itself can be subverted to give strength to the power of love, as can be seen in Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’. In ‘The Great Gatsby’, Desire...
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The obsessive nature of desire is explored within both ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Great Expectations’ with Fitzgerald and Dickens portraying this desire through: wealth, love and also self-advancement, within their novels. These concepts are devised throughout both novels in different ways. In ‘The Great Gatsby’, Gatsby desires to be wealthier than Tom Buchanan to gain the love of Daisy Buchanan and Fitzgerald uses his mansion to exemplify this. Similarly, in ‘Great Expectations’ the main protagonist Pip desires to be rich...
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