<p>Third Instalment:</p>
<p>“Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better?”</p>
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<p>Since the dawn of time, human beings have been on a relentless pursuit of ever improving, changing, and fixing. It was not, however, until the last hundred years did changes that can drastically modify the human life take place. Technological changes have promised to make life easier; however, they have only seldom been able to improve the quality of life. Therefore, it seems an immutable statement that changes are frequently unable to make life better. This viewpoint is exemplified throughout many great works of literature.</p>
<pre><code>Sarago’s masterful novel The Cave greatly espouses the notion that technological changes that make life easier rarely succeed in making life better. Set in a tawdry villa, The Cave explores the life of a mundane potter – Cipriano Algo – and his realization that technological improvements seldom make life better. One day, Ciprian is forced to move into a ponderous metropolitan area known as “The Center.” The Center promises a life completely servile upon technology – it is able to provide virtual experiences of every day, environmental life – and its inhabitants do not ever have to leave the area. However, as Cipriano quickly finds, all the technological advances in The Center are largely superfluous, and quickly realizes that all the amnedities (DAMMIT WHAT IS THE RIGHT WORD?) the Center provides create a meaningless, empty life. The changes that were supposed to make his life easier did not make it better, and the novel ends with Cipriano leaving the Center, back to his impoverished – but overall better – life.
Additionally, the maxim that most changes that make life easier fail to make life better is presented within Marquez’s masterful novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold The protagonist of the story is found exploring a ghastly murder that took place over twenty years ago in a mundane Spanish town. However, when he uncovers the mystery, and presents it to the townspeople – a change that was supposed to make their life easier – the town quickly finds itself reprehensible for the crime, and thus the lives of the townspeople became, unfortunately, worse.
As seen throughout literature, changes that make our lives easier seldom make those lives better. However, this is not to say that it is always like this – think of medical advances. Regardless, most frequently changes that make life easier fail to make it better.
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<p>Rocket Score 2: 9.2
Rocket Score 3: 9.2
Rocket Score 4: 10</p>
<p>383 Words</p>
<p><strong>MY THOUGHTS</strong> I tried to use less examples and go into them more, but, unfortunately, I think I just ended up retelling the story. I also tried to refrain myself from using too many SAT words. I think both of these elements resulted in a weaker essay; you be the judge</p>