Our most recent project in World Studies was looking at the industrial revolution and researching, as a team, a modern innovation (my team chose “hive minds”), while reading and comparing them to Frankenstein. While we read the book, we had to look through it thinking about different thematic topics. The topic that stood out the most to me was alienation.
Alienation and being isolated from society can go many ways, it can help to get things done but it can also lead to being lonely and depressed. For example, in Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, the protagonist, Victor makes himself isolated for a large portion of the novel. The downside with him doing this is that he is alone with his thoughts which start to drive him crazy and he ends up getting very sick. He does this to himself because this way he can learn and work without distractions and nobody can get hurt. Victor worked on most of his real scientific innovations while he was alone. This could be because he didn’t want anybody to know about it and so they wouldn’t get hurt but it could also be that this is how he got the work done. You can see this a lot with many scientists in history and today. Often, the best work is done with total concentration and not having any distractions. If you were to ask me “Would alienation be humankind’s tragic flaw?”, I would have a hard time answering this. If you look at it with our innovation, hive minds, where there is absolutely no alienation and everyone had their mind taken over by society, then there is no individuality. Over all, I think people need to be able to isolate themselves every once and a while. With this reasoning, alienation would not be our tragic flaw. On the other end of the spectrum, some people just completely separate themselves from others and this could be very unhealthy and drive them to make questionable choices. Considering this, alienation could influence a tragic flaw. Seeing both sides, I personally can not answer this question.
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Throughout my years of writing, I believe I have grown in many ways. In World Studies while writing my essay about the Lord of the Flies and the French Revolution, I had a chance to reflect on how my writing skills have grown. I have noticed I am using a more diverse vocabulary. I have more of an understanding of how a difference in phrasing a word or sentence can alter the sound of my writing. I am also able to take feedback from others and apply that to my work. I used this multiple times with this assignment because I asked my peers and teachers to look it over and give me feedback. I received a lot and it helped tremendously! I have learned these and more in my years of writing and was able to showcase them in my essay.
This upcoming year, I want to try to learn more in order to further my growth in my writing. In particular, I want to try to learn how to expand my writing. Currently, I can get a point across in one or two sentences. That is fine for certain situation but not so much in others. To be able to expand smoothly on different aspects of one point would be the goal. In addition, I also would like to further my learning on how to properly cite quotations within my writing. We had to do this a lot in this essay and I attempted to do so. Although I wouldn’t say I did this successfully. In this upcoming semester I will actively work and learn how to improve these two weaknesses. Does humankind posses a tragic flaw? A tragic flaw or the Greek term, hamartia, is the flaw that sets up the tragic hero for their downfall. Many film adaptations have characters posses a tragic flaw to make them more relatable or use one as an overall theme. However, there can always be redeeming qualities to balance or outway a flaw. Humankind’s most likely tragic flaws are obsession, being the best, fear, greed, and more, while it's most redeeming qualities are kindness, love, determination, caring about something, and compassion. Pixar uses tragic flaws for their characters to make them more relatable and to influence the audience to have more of an opinion on that character. For example, in Monsters Inc, Randall was obsessed with becoming the best at scaring the children and he didn't care who he hurt to get there (this could also be seen as greed). In The Incredibles, Syndrome was stuck in the past and sought revenge. He killed all the supers and tried to abducted Mr Incredible and his family so he could become the ultimate superhero. In Finding Nemo, Nemo touched the butt because he wanted to prove to his father that he doesn’t always need him by his side. He ends up getting captured with his coming dad saving him. In Finding Dory, Hank is so fearful that the ocean is such a terrible place, he goes through all this trouble to get on the truck to Cleveland, only to end up going in the ocean and loving it. Even though lots of Pixar characters do have tragic flaws all of them have redeeming qualities to even out or overshadow the bad. An example of this is in Monsters Inc, Randall’s flaws are overshadowed by Sully’s kindness towards his friends and Boo. In The Incredibles, Mr Incredible has such strong feelings of love for his family and being a super that he saves all of them and defeats the robot simultaneously. In Finding Nemo, scared Marlin is so determined to follow the boat and save Nemo. He ends up meeting a wide variety of sea life, including three sharks, a giant whale, sea turtles and a new friend, Dory. In Finding Dory, Dory is so caring and compassionate to everyone she meets, even animals who aren’t so nice to her or don’t understand her disability. As you might be able to see already, Pixar does have tragic flaws and redeeming qualities. Because their audience is mostly focused towards children, they do have much more redeeming qualities sprinkled through their movies than tragic flaws.
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