Essays on Selfishness

Is the con artist entirely at fault? The artist only paints a picture that may well be very desirable, but the choice is up to the observer to blindly follow the artist in the need for a pleasing fantasy or not. In the John Gower’s...

Nothing sounds better than a vacation to an island for most people, at least that’s what 10 individuals thought at first. In And Then There Were None 10 people are sent to an island for crimes unfathomable to the regular person; they’ve all murdered someone...

Humans seem to love putting themselves first above all else. It already came to a point where selfishness has become one of the things we acquire because this is us and there’s really nothing we can do about it. We tend to always seek for...

‘Love is expansion, selfishness is contraction’ these words are said by the great Indian saint Swami Vivekanand which means love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is...

I believe the root to all of our world’s problem is selfishness, so I got some help to stop that. Then I created what I think to be the perfect society, full of selfless acts. Allow me to explain this from the beginning. Fifty years...

Coincidence Reveals Fathers’ Selfishness in “Waiter, a “Bock”” and “A Father’s Confession” Within Guy de Maupassant’s “Waiter, a “Bock”” and “A Father’s Confession” stories, coincidence unearths the selfishness of two fathers. To this end, Count Jean des Barrets coincidentally sees Monsieur le Comte trying to...

In literature, the protagonist commonly possesses a negative trait that ultimately becomes their biggest flaw. Of these many possible flaws, selfishness can potentially be the worst of them. Selfishness can be defined as lacking consideration for others and being concerned with only one’s self. In...

Trainspotting, written by Scottish author Irvine Welsh, is a captivating novel that takes place in Edinburgh Scotland that follows up the random events that occur during a critical time in a group of Scottish junkies’ lives. The novel is split into seven sections that follow...