Essays on Suffering

ght Or WrongPain and Suffering of Animals for Humans Sake:Right or WrongWhen you go out to eat and look at your thick and juicy T-bone steak what do you think about? When you look at that gorgeous mink coat in the department store what is going through your mind? When you here that cigarette smoke…

In Ancient Greece, life was full of complicated questions centered around theexpanding field of science. Freedom of religion was encouraged to be exercisedin the city-states and man was focused on more than the Gods or heavenlyconcerns. As a result many new ideals and beliefs surfaced. These new ideals andbeliefs, though good in intentions, often conflicted…

In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is an integral part of every character’s role. However, the message that Dostoevsky wants to present with the main character, Raskolnikov, is not one of the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. Rather, it appears to me, as if the author never lets his main…

Human SufferingMy great-grandmother passed away last month. She was an unbelievable woman who carried a special place in my heart. It was hard to handle the anguish I felt when I first heard about her death. Her passing left me with an empty feeling inside. The sad, empty, and painful feeling I sensed was my…

KNOW (Evaluation)SHAWNTIL COTTONPOST UNIVERSITY William Crain wrote the articleAnimal suffering:Learning not to care and not to know. William Crain, a professor of psychology at the City College of New York, has written a controversial book, a clear polemic against mistreatment of animals. In his mid-30s, Mr. Crain became a vegetarian. He knew little, then, about…

On February 21, 1907 Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York England. Auden was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic whose everyday language and conversational rhythms has had a major influence on modern poetry. Auden was initially a science major but after several years at Gresham School he realized science was not the career for…

I suffer from depression. In life, some find it easy to let go and get over things. I don’t. On a day to day basis, I focus on my past and things that have hurt me. Bruises that are left in my head that will never clear up. My journey with discovering my own depression…

Pride is a key to self-respect; however, when it goes to far, people forget that humility is a virtue too. In the play Antigone, pride plays a major role throughout, appearing as fatal flaws in both Antigone and Kreon, the main characters of Sophocles’s tragedy. For Antigone and Kreon, as soon as the stepped past…

In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is an integral part of every character’s role. Dostoevsky uses comic characters as instruments for competing ideological issues. A typical example is the loquacious bar room character Marmeladov, an alcoholic with an ironic abstract side to his personality. Through his behavior, Marmeladov draws the reader’s…

William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a romantic tragedy set in 16th Century Verona. The play features events involving the ‘star cross’d lovers’ and incorporates the key themes of love, hate and fate. It is commonly argued that the latter theme is evidently responsible for the lovers’ suicides, however I am going to discuss how…