The words, War & Enmity need no special introduction in today’s world. There is hardly any nation in the world today, which is neither at war nor preparing for one. From the most developed nations like America and Russia to the most underprivileged nations like Syria and Palestine, every nation is few steps away from infusing a mass destruction & pushing the world to oblivion. The very idea of world peace and harmony (1) is fast becoming distinct from the hearts of people all over the globe. There is also a trend among top think tank of the world that most of the times war is the only means to peace. Agreeing to that, seems not so easy as when one leads to another, its eventually destruction and debris which will be left at the end. That picture …show more content…
It could be said that each war broke out of different causes at different times between various species. The causes may vary from enmity to desperation to responsibility and welfare of humankind. The Rama-Ravana duel, Indrajith-Lakshmana duel are examples of war exemplified with technical brilliance on both the sides. Enmity out of frustration and envy can be seen with the likes of Rama-Parusharama and Vali-Sugreeva. The duel between Rama and the likes of Taataka, Subaahu, Mareecha, and Shatrughna-Lavana are out of both responsibility as a king and welfare of mankind. Hanuman confronting and killing Akshakumara and one quarter of Ravana’s army is both strategic and …show more content…
Bharatha muni, in his Natyashastra proposes an argument that pathos is born out of violence (4). Pathos, in a way can be termed as the effect of violence. War and Enmity embody violence and hence we can say that all wars end in agony, pain and sufferings, i.e. pathos. But this research paper proposes pathos to be the cause of violence as well. If we think about curbing violent actions, we must initiate to know the reason behind such actions. We must see what really makes someone so violent. Upon knowing the cause for such actions, further measures can be taken to rectify and
A simple act of violence can genuinely affect an individual's state of mind. Through violence, individuals feel empowered and are tempted to prolong their violent nature. This results in one heinous act, following with worse violence. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Boy Soldier, both authors effectively highlight a theme, that violence will ultimately lead to more violence.
The seven year war started in 1756-1763. The French and Indian started the seven year war because in the early 1750 's when the French became bigger and more known to the Ohio River Valley it repeatedly brought the French and Indian into armed disagreements. In 1756 when the seven year war officially started the British were facing a lot of defeats when the French brought in their partner the native Americans. Then in 1763 The Seven year War ended with an agreement of Paris. The Seven Year War is important to Canada because it made
In the Roman Empire, England, France, and the Middle East, ever since people have been around, there has always been conflict and fighting. A common theme in war is inhumanity. For example, in World War I mustard gas would produce terrible blisters on soldiers who were exposed to it. Empathy for those suffering young men was not present in those causing the pain.
While literature doesn’t always transform a person radically, violent passages in books can lead to aggressive acts in real life. The type of violence found in books and committed by criminals can be defined as anything which causes harm, such as hostile
War is a conflict that has been seen by every human civilization to some extent, and is sure to be seen by those in the future. These hostile situations can be caused by a variety of situations, including land, resources, philosophy, and religion. Though the exact cause and result of each war is different, there are ways to gauge the effectiveness and permissibility of the actions of governments and armed forces during war. This is the premise of Just War Theory. Just War is philosophy of rating a war as ethically just or not, which has three basic requirements along with a scale for comparison.
Injustice always needs indifferent inaction to sustain itself, and to break this cycle, you must have violence. This violence is directed at injustice, in the hope that the indifferent group will join the ranks of the people who care. According to
The US Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865, resulting in the death of approximately 120,000 Americans. The tensions between the North and South were formed early in the nation’s history. We’ve learned to study and debate the tensions in our society, keeping in mind the lives lost in the Civil War, to be certain we never repeat that mistake. Following are the causes leading up to the War Between the States.
The Seven Year 's War was a huge war involving a lot of countries, such as France, Britain, Spain, Sweden and many more . This paragraph is going to be about some of the conflicts that occurred during this event. Firstly, Due to the fact that the British were establishing settlements, the French attacked the British and burnt their homes down. Next, there were rising tensions in North America, because of the French and British wanting to control over North America 's resources for trade purposes. Thirdly, based on a economy system called mercantilism, spices and tea from India and sugar from the West indies were imported to North America.
There is hardly an impetus the likes of which can match the human lust for revenge. There hardly exists a motivator which can so spur a man to action than the need to balance a scale. Indeed, such a concept is a ubiquity in the nature that defines mankind, with many phrases arising from the primal urge: to right a wrong, an eye for an eye, blood for blood, skin for skin, tooth for tooth – the list is endless. And it is no mere coincidence that such an array of commonly expressed sayings refers in one way or another to violence; the two are quite inextricably linked, for a desire for comeuppance most commonly arises from a strongly acerbic concoction of emotions and primal reactionary instincts. There is a profound gratification inherent
Throughout Chapter five of her book Shadows of War, Carolyn Nordstrom shares her views on war in terms of social, physical and mental goals and punishes of such violence. To begin, one of the first goals of war as defined by Nordstrom is a direct result of a threat of loss of control. She explains that it is common for one military to feel the need to destroy another when their control over a certain (land area owned or controlled by someone) is under threat (56). An interesting point that Nordstrom makes is relating to/about (community of people/all good people in the world)'s do not tell the difference between the existence of different violences. As stated by Nordstrom, most people will naturally tell/show the difference between different wars; however, very few tell/show the difference between the experience of violence throughout such wars (57).
World War II World War II was a brutal, bloody, and horrific modern war. It featured the Allies, chiefly composed of The Soviet Union, The United States, The United Kingdom, China, and France, against the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. This second great war devastates people, families, and countries beyond what could have ever been imagined. The conflicts of World War II arose from the unresolved tension left over from the end of World War I. The world was in a state of instability.
It is a state of nature that humans choose to fight and have the courage to kill those of the opposite opponents. There is always those who try to prohibit competiveness and discover more contemporary idea, with less socially harmful affects, to give those who are “biologically” aggressive an ability to express their nature of
Esbensin, Peterson, Taylor and Freng (2010) implies that “ young people who have committed serious violent offenses have the highest level of impulsive and risk-seeking tendencies.” Moreover, extreme violent criminal activity being performed in front of youth increases the risk of them performing acts of extreme violence themselves. Because youth see those acts as acceptable so committng those violent activities make youths to become ruthless. Smith and Green (2007) assert that violent activities becoming ruthless and the perpetrators even more ruthless.
“Conflict is a struggle over values and claims to scarce status, power, and resources, in which the aims of the opponents are to neutralize, injure, or eliminate the rivals”. (L. Coser,
The violent conflict approach is defined through coercion, threats, and destructive assaults. Galtung’s, model suggests that each of these components influence one another, and while each