Freud

We have been learning about Freud's thoughts on why people are unhappy.  From what I can tell he says there are two things that people do in life: pursue things that will make them happy, or just try to avoid things which will make them unhappy.  Either way he says you will spend most of your time chasing this happiness and when you actually achieve it, that feeling will not last long and you will be back to chasing it again.  If this is true than according to him most of your life is spent in suffering, trying to get that happiness.  I'm not sure whether or not he is right but it is sure a depressing way to look at things.  Before I learned about this I considered myself to be a pretty happy person, but the thought of it actually made me more depressed.  I think that the only thing that can make a person more unhappy than suffering most their life is the realization that they are suffering most their life.  So after the final I will attempt to clear Freud's theories from my mind.  In this case ignorance really is bliss.  

We are watching the movie A Dolls House in class. It's based on a book from the realism episteme. The story is supposed to make a statement about how women are sometimes still treated like children by their husbands and also by the rest of society even when they are adults. I find it interesting that someone decided to remake this story (in the form of a movie) during a big time for the civil rights movement. Maybe they felt like that statement needed to be made again. On a seperate note I would just like to say that the actress who plays Nora is pretty good looking, especially for the sixties.

We have been learning about women's rights and the way they were treated in the nineteenth century. People who have researched the reasons for the subjection of women say that it is just a custom that started from the very beginning of the human race when strength was the most important attribute for survival. Obviously sense women were weaker they were looked at as the lesser beings. They became basically the property of men. As time wore on and society advanced strength became less of an important attribute and women should have been equal with men but weren't because of the tradition of the way things have been. Although it has come a long way, some women still feel that they are treated unfairly today. However, this does not effect me much because I am not a woman.