What It Means To Be Human Analysis

“The most compelling texts are ones that explore what it means to be human”

Introduction

What it means to be human is not just having a face, eyes or a heart.Being human is much more than that, it's deeper and much more .Being human is having the ability to know what is right and wrong. Compelling is the evoking attention in a powerfully irresistible way. Our selfishness, relationships and mortality are one of the many features that define who we are as humans.The most compelling texts that show these feature on what it means to be human ; ‘The Wrestler’, ‘The Road’ and ‘The trees are down.’ Each text displays the portrayal of either selfishness, our relationships and mortality. From this the reader learns about the true meaning of what

It is true that there is a natural tendency for everyone to be selfish. But if we become excessively selfish, we care for only for our interests and comforts. We begin to ignore the rights of others. In other words we come more in considerate of our fellow-beings. We try to make our own life happy and to achieve this we are prepared to bring hardship and inconvenience to other people. We are too self-absorbed into our own ambitions and desires, that it can cause discontentment to others. ‘The Wrestler’, shows this unhealthy act of selfishness, where Randy Robinson is a ex-wrestler who is too absorbed in his life that he forgets to realise how inconvenient his actions are towards his daughter, Stephanie and her school boy crush Pam aka Cassidy. His whole life as a wrestler has been revolved around him and he begins to see how selfish he is when he tries to reconcile with his daughter. He faces these inconveniences because of how self-obsessed he was. Another example of selfishness is within the text, ‘The trees are down’ by Charlotte Mew. This text portrays the selfless act of humans .Mew creates a poem that portrays the destructive nature of man, being the selfish beings they are. “With the ‘Whoops’ and the ‘Whoas,’ the loud common talk, the loud common laughs of the men, above it all.” She portrays man as ‘above it all’ showing ‘we’ are the dominant life form. Due to this dominance we desire power and through this power it shows our selfish natures. These two texts shows how the representations of our human flaws. In this case it’s our selfishness. Our selfishness leads to an inconvenience when we are either trying to build a relationship or fix something that is dying. We are too stuck in our own little world that we forget what is more important to us, that we end up not caring at all about anything else but ourselves and our