Neusner's Pessimistic Outlook Of Life

I choose this quote because the problems from his past keep causing problems for his future if he doesn’t figure out how to work through them.

The pattern of imagery and diction that is created in lines 7 -10, uses diction with negative and consequential words to create a negative image of a result of not making a thrust in life. If you are not doing anything interesting with life, you might be putting yourself in a position where you could be criticized and

He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past.

"But my hope is to write a book that will be useful . . . and so I thought it sensible to go straight to a discussion of how things are in real life and not waste time with a discussion of an imaginary world; for the gap between how people actually behave and how they ought to behave is so great that anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he has been taught how to destroy himself, not preserve himself."

As everyone in life goes through tragic moments in life some of us have to pushed a little harder and have to straighten up in order to have successful life. At the end of the book they say a quote that I truly feel is correct “ Read these words, absorb their meanings, and create your own plan to act and leave a legacy” by Tavis

He is trying to describe that life is short and in the end everything has an ending, the people, the buildings, the wealth, etc. There is no meaning to life if you as an individual don’t give it

In the events leading up to his death he is met with with a transition from happiness to misery, influenced by forces beyond his control.

Although the speaker does not telling us why his life is so miserable; he does give us hints that he lives in regrets.

While Pangloss serves to represent the philosophy of optimism, Martin’s character serves as a foil to his character in order to represent how these ideas are applied to pessimism. Furthermore, his

It explains to the reader that no matter how many times a man fails or succeeds in his life, it comes down to whether or not they give it there all or not.

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.” This quote established the knowledge of one’ route of life, how one simple moment can change the lives of many for the good or for the bad.

“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for

He says in thought, “Everything, everything exactly as always: the burning sun, the vibrant air, the loneliness, the motionless banana trees, the wire fence with the tall, very thick posts that will soon have to be replaced…Dead” (6). The upsetting irony of this, is that everything the man has worked for and is proud of, is what ended up killing

He goes on to say, “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean...publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion” (74). In this rather long passage, he outlines his true sentiment about life and living. He puts his feelings in very plain, broad terms, claiming that in order to know what life has to offer, one must do all that they can to “experience” it, and then judge for themselves. One cannot have lived if they have not confronted the true “essential facts of life,” whether they may be sweet or bitter.

In his parable Before the Law, Franz Kafka suggests that obstacles that one faces in life can either be used to mold one’s success or bring about one’s failure. If one can overcome challenges that they face they grow in a unique type of way, for every individual perceives each situation in a distinct fashion. That unique type of growth is what establishes a person’s character and perception of the world. However if one cannot overcome their obstacles, then they cut of their means for growth and are left uninspired, forgetting any dreams or aspirations. It is through the man’s interaction with the doorkeeper, and his inability to overcome this obstacle, that eventually leads him down the path of complacency and failure.