Definition Essay On Desire And Jealousy

Desire. It burns like an uncontainable fire, engulfing those in its path. Society bows down to desire for the individuals in society are driven by the desire to succeed, driven by the hope that they can be better than whom they were made to be. In a society in which men are merely pawns in a larger game of war, it is the desire to be special that keeps them going. But when desire takes over the brain, it provides the illusion of perfection. It turns a person against the world, for they believe they are better than it. But when things do not go as planned, and someone else manages to become special; desire turns into rage, into jealousy. A person’s jealousy towards those superior causes them to create an enemy. The enemy soon becomes a scapegoat
Yet inside he was something more. His world revolved around sports, and he perceived life as one big game a game in which everybody wins. He was naïve and unaware of the jealousy he sparked in others; for he believed that everybody was special and equal. Phineas was a living epitome of boyhood, innocent and unaware of how his peers were taking a step towards manhood. As Phineas states after beating a swimming record, “I just wanted to see if I could do it, and I can. I do not want to do it in public…’ (pg.22). Phineas symbolizes what mankind should be, pure and not doing everything for self-gain. He was the only boy on campus who fearlessly expressed emotion (pg.25). However while Phineas’s views were ideal, he was unfit for the war, unfit for the world because of them. Phineas represented everything the war suppressed, benevolence; and his kindness caused him to be weak. He would either get corrupted, or would be unable to survive in the real world. In the novel, Phineas tragically experience the later (pg. 116). He died while running away from the truth, from the fact that his best friend had tried to hurt him. Phineas’s death symbolizes the end of boyhood for now there was nobody in Devon left to carry his childish