Curiosity

According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, curiosity is simply defined as, “the desire to learn or know more about something or someone” (“Curiosity”). Most everyone is full of curiosity, but curiosity is a trait most commonly used to describe a child’s mind. This is most likely due to the fact that an innocent mind is undoubtedly a curious one. On the other hand, many adults and professionals are curious also, such as, scientists, historians, journalists, and any other person who wants to continue

impulsive and irresistible; it seizes us,” (5 Leslie). In context, this quote is describing diversive curiosity, but through analysis it can be see that this is how all of curiosity is. Curiosity drives away boredom. It makes people wonder about impossible ideas. With any kind of curiosity it’s hard to be bored. In the same way without curiosity, boredom will come easy. The thing that makes curiosity so impulsive is that it isn’t easily diminished. It can sometimes be directed towards something trivial

In the poem “Curiosity”, by Alastair Reid, the author uses not only opposites, but age-oldenemies, as vehicles for his portrayal of two types of people – those who play it safe and don’t rock the boat, and those who take chances and rock the boat just to see how long it takes to sink. Just as the fur flies when cats and dogs get together, so it often happens with people who live their lives on two different planes of philosophical and emotional existence. The unpredictable cat lives mostly as he

maturity was loyalty, curiosity, and bravery. To begin with, it’s important to be loyal while being an adult. Why is that so? It’s because no one would trust you and no one would believe you and want you with them. Loyalty means

acceptance of a state of not-knowing. Over the millennia, wonder has moved closer in meaning to curiosity and amazement and into the sphere of the rational. Shadowed by a sense that all knowledge is now possible, mystery and concepts of the unknowable have ceased to exist. This relatively modern loss of wonder can be seen in the history of the museum and its transition from the Cabinets of Curiosities (or Wunderkammer) of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the birth of the modern museum

upon something along the path in the forest that is evil. Throughout the story of Brown, his protagonist changes into evil because of what he encounters. Goodman Brown changes because the effect the dark wilderness, a strange evil presence, and curiosity had on him. Goodman Brown in “Young Goodman Brown”, changes from a good Christian man to a mysterious and uncertain man by the end of his life. When one day Brown decides to take a walk through the forest at night; without his wife Faith, he is

Curiosity: that spark of utter madness. It is the driving factor behind man’s most instinctual motives. It is that gut feeling that complies to defy all probability and leap into the abyss of the unknown. A saying as old as time, “curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back” embarks on accentuating the importance of inquisitiveness. However, in the cautionary tale Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury curiosity has fizzled out into nothingness. Like many of Bradbury’s scarily accurate predictions

connection with foreign people and places. Such is explored in Ivan O’Mahoney’s episodic docudrama, ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ (2008), which urges participants to revoke shielded attitudes in reassessing human understanding. Alike, the innate curiosity of individuals conjures unexpected, transformative discovery, communicated distinctively in Sally Morgan’s autobiography ‘My Place’ (1987). As responders, our reception to the composer’s manipulation catalyses our own discovery, thereby inviting

2.1 Curiosity Curiosity reflects an essential desire for new information to inspire interest and/or ignore uncertainty, which is aroused by novel, complex, and therefore can motivate exploratory behavior (Litman et al., 2005). There are four type diverse type of curiosity that had found from researchers which is perceptual, epistemic, sensory, and interpersonal. According to Malone (1981), perceptual curiosity is induced by complex or uncertain patterns of sensory stimulation such as sounds and

Curiosity is one of the recurring themes in Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems Mean Time, and it is explored in a number of interesting ways. One way in which she explores this theme, for instance, is through the use of an adult persona recollecting or reminiscing about childhood experiences. Similarly, in the novel Waterland Graham Swift also presents curiosity as a central theme of the narrative. In his novel, curiosity appears to be the catalyst behind many of the incidents that occur throughout