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In fact, the exercise of liberty is oftentimes one of the principle producers of unhappiness. People tend to relish and utilize their freed will by thinking doing so will make them feel felicitous. On the contrary, many times free will can actually account for scenarios that are counterproductive to happiness, which is why Gilbert writes "We have no trouble anticipating the advantages that freedom may provide, but we seem blind to the joys it can undermine" (Gilbert, 142). A certain undermining of the pleasure in life is demonstrated by the free will of Julia, one of the patients in Martha Stout's essay "When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning it Was Friday." Left to her own volition, Julia was so unhappy with her life that she attempted to kill herself, as the following quotation indicates. "…she expected not to be found until well after she had frozen to death" (Stout, 386). Julia's liberty to do what she wanted to with her life resulted in an unhappiness so profound that she attempted to kill herself -- because she did not know how to make herself happy. This undermining of joys that liberty accounts...
No one forced him to journey to the wilderness of Alaska. The young man chose to do so of his own volition, believing that the autonomy and exercise of his free will afforded there with no people to infringe on his desires would ultimately bring him happiness. What it ultimately brought, him, however, was far from happiness, as the following quote suggests. "But why did he then stay at the bus and starve" (Krakauer, 214). As a result of the starvation MccCandles endured, the young man died. His exercise of liberty was directly related to the unhappiness produced by his death.
In many ways, McCandless provides textbook examples for the concepts propagated by Gilbert about people's ignorance of what makes them happy. Had McCandless stayed where the youngster originally was in the continental U.S., Gilbert's notions suggest McCandles would have eventually found happiness by growing accustomed to his surroundings. His exercise of free will and the choices it presented him, however, which he thought would engender happiness, engendered his death.
Krakauer believes it was mere luck that he survived and Chris did not. However, McCandless was offered many opportunities to save his own life, all of which he rejected. It was deliberation, not chance that took his life. Chris was so clearly headed on a path to destruction, when he was found, his identity was almost immediately obvious to those who had met him: "The police don't know who
A girlfriend, or even a close friend, might balk at living on rice and wandering in the wild for months. Although Krakauer rejects McCandless' refusal of all aid as a form of suicide, it seems justifiable in interpreting McCandless' determination to push aside all attempts to make his journey safer as a kind of unconscious misanthropy, or hatred of humanity. Having people care about him would have meant that he
Maybe he thought because he loved the wilderness so much that the wilderness would love him back and not kill him. He knew there was a chance he could die, but he didn't think it would really happen to him. The book Chris bought that told about wild plants he could eat didn't say anything about the wild potato seeds being poison. Chris had been eating fairly well up to
McCandless Journey Hero McCandless' Journey to Discovery and Heroic-Sanctity In Into the Wild, Chris McCandless embarks on several different movements -- wandering, questing, the pilgrimage, the going-forth. At times, he seems to have a goal, and at other times he appears to have none. Therefore, it is difficult to define Chris as a traditional hero of the monomyth. The major flaw in doing so is to miss the reality of Chris's "journey"
I prefer lying down on my back, with my feet flat on the ground and my knees up in the air, although I have done the same basic technique sitting up as well. I close my eyes and consciously relax every part of my body, starting with my toes and working my way up, through the legs, hips, torso, arms, neck and even face. At the same time, I
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