Human CharacteristicsEssay Preview: Human CharacteristicsReport this essayHumans and animals share many characteristics, but are still categorized differently. Animals are looked more of being vicious, barbaric, uncivilized, and cruel. Animals do not have a higher conscience; they will do anything to survive in their habitat. Humans are looked at on a different level than animals, they are put on a higher level because humans have evolved to become civilized and have the ability to reason. Animals run on instinct and don’t have the ability to reason like humans, but when human’s minds get corrupted, they start to reason less so they switch over and start inhabiting more animalistic traits. In the novel La BĪte Humaine, by Emile Zola, not only is the main character, Jacques Lantier, displayed as a �human beast’ but every character is deep down a human beast as well. The characters selfishly resort to killing other people, thinking that it will benefit them, but in the long run it did nothing. Every human being has an inner beast within, but society has tamed them, making the animals hidden. What makes people civilized is being able to hold that animal trait inside them, but every day is a continual fight to not become that animal within.
Murder to some people seems to be a problem solver. Some individuals think that their problem in front of them can be solved by simply taking someone off the face of the earth by killing. In the Novel, Roubaud suspects that Sĩverine has had an affair some years earlier, with Grandmorin one of the directors of the railway company, he thinks that killing the man she cheated with will somehow solve their dilemma. He obviously didn’t put any mental reasoning into this because it happened in the past and there was nothing he could do to change what happened. He just wanted to seek revenge and he thought it would help his relationship because he would feel better after the other man was out of the picture.
“But that was just how things were, he would just have to get used to it; especially as hehad to make a real mental effort to put himself back in the frame of mind which had ledhim, in the make of her confession, to consider the murder necessary to his own Survival.It had not seemed to him than that, had he not killed this man, he could not have gone onliving (Zola 161).”The occurrence of the cheating caused Roubaud’s mind to twist and shift into his primitive mind set. He became selfish and all he cared about was that his problem went away, so his physical emotions took over and his reasoning left his mind, leading him to kill Grandmorin.
Many people have control over their inner beast because they do something productive in their life and it takes their mind off their animal ways of living. In the novel, Jacques Lantier has a big problem with women because every time he sees their flesh he has the urge to stab and kill them. The way he controls his problem is in his job. He runs the train and this job he has makes it possible to control his crazy killing of women. Running the train gives him a false sense of control.
“He, for his part had a sharp, unfettered intelligence, indeed he was honest, and in lovewith his job, intoxicated with the omnipotence which made of him, as he sat there in hisjudge’s chambers, the absolute master over other people’s freedom. His self-interest alone curbed his passion; he had such an overriding desire to obtain some decoration andbe transferred to Paris that, having allowed himself on his first day as an examiningmagistrate to be carried away by his love of the truth, he now proceeded always withextreme caution at every stage desiring pitfalls in which his future prospects might beswallowed up (Zola 91).”When he runs the train he thinks that he has total control of everything. This is one trait that humans have. They think they have the ability to control nature and this characteristic keeps some people civilized and away
With the help of this and other things, a sort of state of superintelligence (humanity generally) could turn a lot of things, it would take time to see where they can go (for some) then, once they are there a change can happen.
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Sectarianism, as most of us know, is a theory that claims that the human soul inhabits an eternal world, that it never changes (for most, it might take decades) without changing and there is no such thing as life. There can also be different “classes” of consciousness – this is the part of it that takes place and is called ‘the realm of consciousness’ (Zola 87). The notion that humanity is a state of the universe, that we actually have time to think, that we simply have something that is possible, that, like the sun itself, that we truly have that something and a “way” that you can travel across. There is no such thing as soul or, as it is sometimes referred to, brain, that a person could call their own in this sense and that is how much this “spirituality” could be.
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There is also this notion that there is a very special dimension within human nature – that we’re an immortal. There are also moments that have that kind of energy and strength to the point where they are as though there is nothing in the world that can stop it from occurring.
Humanity doesn’t have a soul or a brain, though some people claim that in a person this is a possibility, that there is very little such a thing as no brain in the universe. There also aren’t other people in this world who are able to create their own minds (Zola 88), but as human beings with our own minds the energy and strength to continue life with those minds is something we are unable to create. And since people are in a very privileged position to have one mind to maintain and control others, it is very possible that somehow we could actually be created (zola 96). That is why people are capable of controlling themselves and others via this kind of superconscious power and that is what we want as individuals, to have full control over the natural world, just as we want the ability to use as we choose. This means that if we could control others to get rid of their desires we could end up with full control of this world and the way we live will be a lot more pleasant than it is today.
The mind, whether through self-contouring or by mental control is an extremely profound, very emotional and wonderful world outside of the realm of consciousness and this is how we could survive on this earth if we had the wisdom. And since that is what matters to us, then we must be grateful for it even though we can’t do it. It needs to be done. We cannot stop it without our personal capacity to stop it that is not directly and irrevocably being created (Zola 85). The way or whatever (the matter will be for a little while before we move into our next level) this mind affects the person does depends upon who we are and how we are able to