It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Before, because of what his society had taught him, Equality was tempted to feel guilty just for being alive.
He was taught that being alive was a burden to the earth, and other human beings, and needed some higher purpose or "warrant" to be justified.
He was also taught that the only way to justify one's life was the service of others. That had to come before any desire for individual happiness, which was base and evil. In other words, he had to always think about the collective group and never about himself. This way of thinking comes across in Equality 's language: he can't even refer to himself as an "I" — only as a "we. Equality 's society also promised that "toiling" for others was in fact the only way to be happy anyway: "There is no joy for men, save the joy shared with all their brothers," it taught him 9.
It's important to note that the two ideas are distinct. The first idea is about whether one needs some justification for being alive and whether individual happiness is a justification or not. The second idea is a claim about what makes people happy work. Now, in the end, Equality rejects both of these ideas.
First he starts to get suspicious about the idea that happiness is to be found in toiling for others, because it just doesn't jive with his experience. In spite of all the work he did, he was never happy before.
In fact, he was miserable. It's only once he starts to live for himself , and not for the sake of others at all, that he finds genuine joy: But the only things which taught us joy were the power we created in our wires, and the Golden One.
And both these joys belong to us alone, they come from us alone, they bear no relation to our brothers, and they do not concern our brothers in any way. Thus do we wonder. And they have nothing to do with serving others.
If you notice in that passage, though, Equality 's still sounds a little uncertain i. That may be because he's also still missing something, namely, the word "I. For him to start thinking of himself as the center of the universe, he needs to be able to think of himself. And that's why it is so important when Equality finally discovers the word "I" at the start of Chapter He just can't get enough of it, and says the word over and over again: "I am.
I think. I will. My hands. My spirit. My sky. My forest. This earth of mine. Can't you just hear the great cosmic "ta-da! Or at least imagine an appropriately epic soundtrack? Equality 's finally found himself! For more on this process of finding himself, check out the theme "Identity". Equality meets a girl named Liberty while out doing his job as a street sweeper. This shows that each time Equality saw Liberty, he was drawn to her. He had Sometimes the characters accepted the fate because it was important to them or they just believed that it was the right thing to do.
His fate was that everything he cherished and had pride in him was all taken away. Even though he tried to change his way of thinking, he still had no control over his fate. It was then seen as the mug that you broke. The cultural changes of religion and institutions that the missionaries brought convinced many that their own culture was no longer worth saving and so they did nothing to try to stop the change from occurring; however Okonkwo still believed that the Igbo culture was worth saving but with this belief came the realization that he no longer had the power to stop such a change because the theme of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is that change is inescapable.
Along with all these cultural changes, Okonkwo went through his own change from powerful to powerless. Equality has a different potential from the rest of the people, as one, and this concerns the Council. When worked in a group, man is more limited to his actions since everybody has to agree, but alone, a man has no limits.
Equality grew up to be independent, rather than dependent what the Council wants and he is considered evil. To try and level his thoughts, they make him a street sweeper so that he will underestimate himself and not try to do something. The main character of this book, Equality , struggles with his life when he wants to take off on his own path and express his personal ideas, however everyone else meets these ideas with anger and skepticism. Everyone has been persuaded to believe that everybody is equal and no one has the right to have individualised thoughts.
His desire to learn leads him to branch out and explore new things, helping him form new individualised thoughts. Until the moment when the World Council threatens to destroy the lightbulb, Equality thinks of his brothers and their welfare. Because he will not abide seeing the lightbulb destroyed, even though he might tolerate his own destruction, he is forced into exile from his society.
Equality realizes that he actually created the lightbulb for its own sake and that he does want to live because his body is strong and youthful and beautiful—a realization that severs his last connections to society and makes him a free man.
Once he has broken from society, Equality adopts a vanity and pride unknown in the society in which he was raised and, in so doing, he realizes his manhood. For the first time, Equality feels pride at killing his own food and pleasure in eating, and when he meets up again with the Golden One, he enjoys sex for the first time. The ecstasy he discovers in his body mirrors the ecstasy of his mind. By breaking from the confines of society, Equality becomes his own man in both his mind and his body.
He is very proprietary about the house and its contents, and it provides the key to his epiphany.
0コメント