Greed And Tragedy In Human Term Paper

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The plate that is brought through the door there... will be the turntable on which she will pose..." This passage from the plate shows how the woman is likened to the lowly animal, chicken, to demonstrate Hogarth's lowly perception of how Tom had wrongly conducted himself as a wealthy man. Tom's eventual downfall is shown in the last two plates of "Rake's Progress," wherein he eventually lands in prison for his debt due to his drastic splurging of his wealth, and at the madhouse, where the now-insane Tom is detained, having realized his mistakes but cannot do anything to 'undo' them. Thus, he falls into insanity, the only escape that he can do from all his problems in life. In Tom's life, Hogarth reflects the downfall of humanity through madness and instability of the society,...

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In "The vanity of human wishes," he elucidates that riches in this world (wealth, beauty, glory, power, and long life) has dangerous consequences that makes these good "gifts" disadvantageous to the receiver of this "object of desire." In fact, what Johnson implies in "The vanity" is that, "[p]eople ask for such foolish things that the best way to be revenged is to give people what they say they want." Thus, giving an individual's "wish" will result to a consequence that is far greater in danger that it immediately offsets the satisfaction an individual has gained in receiving this wealth (or any riches).

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