What Is The Theme Of The Duppy By Anthony Clauck

Yet on Good Friday, his livelihood is challenged by his associates and family. They encourage him to reestablish the legendary glory behind his family name. He becomes discontent and insecure when they criticize him for being unsuccessful when his name carries greatness for he says, “He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?” (211)

This is a great example of perception vs. reality as everyone makes it seem that one person might be happy, but inside they can be at the complete opposite state. This causes him to have the desire for more wisdom than what he has been taught. He wanted to find out what was really important and wanted to feel no emotion in regards to what people think of him.

From the very moment Duddy’s grandfather declares, "A man without land is nobody," Duddy is prepared to seek the land of his dreams no matter what it would cost him in the long run. He’s extremely ambitious and would do anything in his power to succeed in achieving his goal, however, his methods of fulfilling his goals are extremely awful. In the end of the novel, Duddy has obtained all the land that he had desired, but he succeeds through immoral and contemptible means. No doubt, Duddy is extremely clever, but his lack of moral principles are what leads to his final failure. Perhaps he cannot distinguish right from wrong, nonetheless, it is unacceptable for him to engage himself into these kinds of acts.

Duddy’s morality when it comes to earning money is shifted because of the example his uncle plays in his life with his business. Uncle Benjy tried to keep Duddy out of as much trouble as possible, he also admits his lack of attention to Duddy at the end of the novel; “I wish I’d made more time for you. God help me but I wish I’d seen what your zeyda saw” (Page 245) saying that Duddy is indeed worth something and that the thing that his grandfather saw in him was absolutely

The third and final instance of how motivation and ambition affect our lives begins with Dunstan ducking a snowball, and that snowball hitting Ms. Dempster. For weeks afterwards, Dunstan is consumed with guilt, and all through the rest of his life, that feeling never completely goes away. It can be argued that Dunstan spends a large portion of his life trying to atone for what he has done. He visits Ms. Dempster in the asylum numerous times and he periodically checks up on her son. The feeling of guilt can be a powerful motivator, and this force is one that Dunstan succumbs to. As he spends his life trying to atone for something that was not his fault, we realize that although guilt is a natural emotion, we should not allow it to dictate our actions without interference from our logic.

Optimism filled his soul like the fresh paintings hanging in the museums. He expected the future will harbor better things than just quiet farming. In that spirit, he never accepted the limits of digging peat or milking cows, or practicing a religion he did not profess to.

The behaviourist perspective is an idea that we can understand any type of behaviour by looking at what the person has learner. This includes personality traits such as shyness, confidence, optimism or pessimism. Behaviourist psychologists explain all human behaviour as resulting from experience. Two key psychologists are Pavlov and Skinner, although these two theorists believed that different processes were involved, they both explained all types of behaviour as being the result of learning. This is everything from shyness to aggression and happiness to depression.

Finally, in his later years, he comes to understand that Heaven brings the process to an

According to behaviourism, behaviour can be studied in a systematic and observable manner with no consideration of internal mental processes. As human beings we are driven to understand who we are and how the facets of our own personality make us unique individuals. Behaviourists believed that we are born with a handful of innate responses known as stimulus response and that all of our complex behaviours are through learning by interaction with the environment

Throughout his public life, he embodied for many people an ideal of persistence, tolerance and personal strength. In my opinion, it is the combination of these qualities that made him an outstanding person and a globally recognized leader. Neither persistence without strength, nor strength without tolerance would suffice to turn around the life of

“Behaviorism is predominantly concerned with evident and measurable aspects of human behavior. In defining behaviour, behaviourist-learning theories emphasise changes in behavior that result from stimulus-response links made by the learner. Behaviour is directed by stimuli. An individual selects one response instead

a result of what has been learnt, which is to say that it is the

After further and cumulative study of the story, one may come to the conclusion that the man in the story has totally influenced reality both in his refusal to allow perceptions persuade him from his mission as he set out to it and also in his utter confidence in his own perceptions of his unique and higher judgment maintaining an overly optimistic outset in regards to his own abilities. One particularly dire incident began, “The man was shocked. It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death” (London 130). One can see by the word “shocked” that he clearly assumed nothing would go wrong, until it actually is done already.

In the play Death of a Salesman, the author investigates human nature and represents his main character as a person whose dissatisfaction with his own life leads to his tragic end. The plot of

And if he hadn’t lived like this he wouldn’t have had his phonograph, radio, car, and frigidaire. However, it was also this conduct that turned him into a follower, unable to make decisions for himself. This is shown in lines 23 and 24 when the speaker says, “he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. He even had five children, which was the right number for a parent in his generation”. He did everything by the book just like everyone else of this time.