What Is Public Realm?

The ingenious and vigorous use of metaphors reveal to the reader how crucial division between the laudable ones and those who live in contempt is and the role that possessing a unique identity plays in that. The book explains that each man should be left alone "in the temple of his spirit", and one should let it be “untouched and undefiled”, distinguished by their personalities and traits. (Rand 79). By likening a man's spirit to a temple, it establishes that every man's spirit exhibits sacrality. This comparison implies that a man may not dirty others’ hearts just so their own soul shines brighter by contrast. Soon afterwards, these thoughts are tied to the word "we" when it is written that the pronoun should "never be placed first within man's soul" or else it will "become a monster", one that is inherently evil (Rand 79). When the word “we” equates to a monster, the reader sees that not retaining individuality and submitting to the will of many leads to being like a monster taking root inside of men,

A collective amount of humans create our humanity. Peering into the core of the human race, the realization of all being one in the same becomes prominent. Division amongst humanity comes in physical appearance, money, and location based culture. With the recognition of those differences comes a consistent result. Backs are turned, and individuals are shunned because of uncontrollable factors. The “experience” of being an outcast is essentially universal.

A man walks into a bar and begins to converse with a local—the man is not from the area. Intrigued by the unfamiliar face, the first thing the local asks is: “where are you from?” Instead of asking for the travelers name, he seeks to identify a larger organization. These simple conversations display the tendency for humans to associate with groups. Democrat or Republican, lower, middle, or upper-class, family, education, ancestry, these communal affiliations are what define an individual. Governments are run by a community of people, and those that are not often collapse, as displayed by many failed dictatorships and monarchies. Even the most intimate component of a human, the mind, is divided into a community of different selves, as explored in the article “First Person Plural” by Paul Bloom. As demonstrated by Edna Pontellier in The Awakening, the rule of one body or persona is neither permanent nor healthy, regardless of the setting; true success comes from a conglomerate of distinct perspectives with a mutual goal in both a governmental and personal setting.

Conflict offers the potential to test and prove one’s moral priorities; however some may stand steadfast by their beliefs and in turn become ignorant to the learning and realisations that conflict offers. While Paradise Road is ultimately about personal and collective triumph over adversity, the script never forgets that for everyone who has overcome seemly impossible obstacles there are many that have fallen along the way, never to rise again. By not forgetting these victims, Paradise Road instead stresses the consequences of isolation. Segregation and reclusiveness in to one’s self can cause further conflict. A highly negative response to

Both Ayn Rand’s Anthem and The Soul of an Individualist display the struggles of living in a collective and oppressive society where new ideas and inventions are denied, and how the individual must break free towards an individual and creative spirit. The individual often encounters struggles along the way as they try to break free towards individualism. The struggles include guilt, a fear of punishment, and a fear of change.

Throughout human history people have searched for individual identity whether it is by expanding west, or by living off the land, and there are countless other examples of how the place we live has shaped us and vice versa. However, a critical question that must be examined is whether we, as humans, shape the landscape to fit societal norms or is it the other way around; Is it the case that through the values that it imposes on us? With this question in mind, place has an important role in shaping the stories that are written, and as a result, to a moderate degree does place shape not only human character but characters in stories as well.

Losing a person can be the hardest conflict to overcome, but gaining a person can change your life for the better. Many conflicts can be formed by simple problems in life. Losing and gaining people can for the most difficult conflicts to fix. This is a cool relating to the author's life when she was younger. In a place that is not a huge city yet not a little town. Problems between a person vs. themselves, others, society and their fate is what the author uses in the story. In the book The Start of Me and You written my Emery Lord is all based around the topic of conflict in four different groups of people or things.

Tragedy in an attempt towards romanticism. Disillusionment that triumphs over sanctuary. Solidarity somehow always finds a way to culminate in a stagnant disposition that shackles free thought.

The advancement of technology has it made it so, that we no longer have a singular identity but multiplicity of identities that has integrated with our own identity, causing us to become flexible to the variety of identities in order for us to find our true identity. Smith introduces “Dream City” as a place where nothing is singular but everything is doubled, where we have to transition from one place to another in order to communicate with the many dwellers of Dream City. Smith states “In Dream City everything is doubled, everything is various. You have no choice but to cross boarders and speak in tongues. That’s how you get from your mother to your father, from talking to one set of folks who think you’re not black enough to another who figure you insufficiently white”(Smith 251-252). Smith presents the idea of flexibility by explaining

In this quote Dr. Steve Maraboli states that if you wish to thrive – to become the best you can be – you have to immerse yourself in the right group, in the group that can enhance your abilities. However, in The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, David is deprived of the opportunity “to fly with the eagles”. The society he is living in forbids him to be any different than the ‘written’ norm. The public’s strict mannerisms peak David’s curiosity. He discovers that if an individual is different than the rest they must suffer severe consequences. Hence, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham demonstrates the dangers of being different than the social norm through symbolism, diction and conflict.

The innovative novel Brave New World exploits the theme of the search for identity through its futuristic environment and society, which causes the main protagonist John to become sequestered from the others. In contrast, in the novel Brave New World individuals are supposed to be happy with their identity as it states, ‘…COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY’ (Huxley 1). Although each individual is placed into their own cast either as an alpha, beta, or gamma, they are supposed to be happy. In this obscure society, ‘the people who accidentally attain knowledge have only two choices if they are to survive: they can become oppressors or outcasts’ (‘Brave New’…6). This relates to my theme of identity as these people are constrained to limited amounts

Whether that be struggles for food, for power or any other number of possibilities. Through these struggles, the identities of the good, the bad, and the ambiguous people are always revealed, no matter how hard they try to hide

Some may argue that the greatest point of being human is that no two people are of the same nature; each person grows up in different environments, experiences, and dreams, leaving behind an organism that imprint their own stamp on the world. By taking away the ability to separate themselves from their peers, the systematic removal of individual identity in the brave world makes it easier for the reader to distance themselves from the characters in the

An individual possessing unique attributes and characteristics is what makes up that person's identity. In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, citizens of a seemingly utopian society lack both an identity and individuality. Every person in this society was stripped of their individuality, in order to maintain and preserve the ideal community. Huxley’s novel emphasizes the importance or groups and communities as oppose to embracing the differences of what it means to be an individual.

struggle as a catalyst for unity, in various degrees because in the face of adversary, we are