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求一篇英语作文,谢谢

题目去下,有三个要求,谢谢了!

Answer 1

To really understand a man, we must judge him in misfortune.
Bonaparte Napoleon, French emperor
Lesson One: "A Misfortune" by Chekhov: You're Not Who You
Think You Are
Introduction to today's topic, The
Irrational Mind:
We all have an infinite capacity to be
irrational, but some of us are more irrational than others. Why? Because some of
us have more free will and more of the Third Eye than others.
It's an over simplification to say we have
absolute free will or are absolutely helpless to our Irrational Mind.
Free will or a lack of it is a matter of
degree. A person who has a healthy lifestyle, full of daily exercise and healthy
eating may not be completely free to curb the temptation to eat rich desserts,
but this person has more freedom than inert, morbidly obese people who eat
buckets for fried chicken and several cases of Hot Pockets throughout the day.
There's a free will scale.
Some people have a tiny degree free will. For
example, take Alexis from The Real Housewives of Orange County.

Alexis amazingly outdoes the others on the
obnoxious scale. She's from Orange County and she plays richer and smarter than
she really is.
She drives to San Diego to do a TV show called
"Dr. Booty" and the producers and staff of the show roll their eyes in disgust
at how incompetent this woman is.
Think about it. When the staff of a show called
"Dr. Booty" thinks you're stupid, you've got serious problems.
The woman is not glamorous and talented as she
believes she is. In truth, she is a small-brained narcissist. The main feature
of her life is the disparity or gulf between her grossly inflated self-image and
who she really is.
This disparity who we are and who we think we
are is the theme in the story "A Misfortune." This misfortune is that we may not
be as civilized as we think we are and we may not have as much free will as we
think have.
Contemplating these themes, the story is not so
much a "misfortune" (an ironic understatement perhaps) but a colossal
catastrophe.
If you think about what I just said, you'll
realize the story is extremely dark and pessimistic. I almost feel guilty for
teaching it, but we shouldn't flinch from the truth.
You don't have to agree or not; simply examine
the evidence.

Does Sofya Have Free Will Or Is She a
Slave to Her Irrational Passions?
One. Is she really helpless to
the flirtations of her forbidden lover?
In a story about self-deception, can we believe
Sofya (can she believe herself) when she says to her prospective lover Ilyin
(also Ivan), “I did not expect to meet you here.” Did her unconscious bring her
there? After all, we read that she has many “chance” meetings with Ilyin. Her
sincerity and moralizing are useless in the face of self-deception, desire, and
vanity.
She is sincere in her belief that she had no
intention of meeting her future lover, but she is both deluded and willfully
ignorant. She denies her desire for Ilyin because such a desire offends her
self-image as a moral person, but her denial, that is her dishonesty, makes her
more vulnerable to giving into her desires.
Willful ignorance is a feeble attempt at
control and results in a loss of self-control.
We like to think of ourselves as being armed
and protected with willpower but too often the idea of “willpower” is a myth, a
fairy tale, a gun that shoots a blank or a flower at the monster.
Here lies the root of the story: We wish to
believe we are autonomous, enjoying self-control, and free will. We build a life
on decency and morals to achieve this end, but the vain wife, in spite of her
protective measures, ends up helpless to forbidden passion. She is stripped of
everything that has established her identity.
Sofya thinks she is Person A but really she is
Person B.
Free Will Position
She is not as helpless as she may think. She
orchestrates (yes, she wills) the flirtations and encourages them
evidenced by the fact that she allows herself to be alone with the forbidden
man.
Few of us can resist temptation, but we can
stay away from temptation in the first place. I don't have pizza and ice cream
in my house. It's easier than resisting them. Likewise, the woman can NEVER be
alone with the forbidden man.