<p>-ventures. Please grade my essay.</p>
<p>Q:
Prompt
Society may limit our actions, but it cannot limit our thoughts. Even if society disapproves of our opinions, we are ultimately free to decide whatever we want. Those decisions may, of course, have consequences, but they are still ours to make.</p>
<p>Assignment
Are we free to make our own choices in life, or are our decisions always limited by the rules of society?</p>
<p>It would certainly be more comforting to believe that individual humans are free from the rules of society. But the collective nature of humans never allow for complete individual freedom – our persuit of free choices are constantly distrupted by external forces; i.e. influence of people around us, by society.
Take the ongoing issue of suicide and euthanasia, for example. Our initial existance and ‘being’ was never instigated by free choice, yet a lot of people comdemn suicide – the act of taking one’s own life out of free choice – because they deem it ‘harmful’ to the rest of sicety. We cannot end our lives freely for the sake of our family and aquaintences who will be affected by our deaths and mourn us, says the critics, Individuals can, ulimately, if they really crave for it, kill themselves whencever they want – but hits does not opt for completel free choice. Freedome in itself is something liberating and rid of guilt – the backlasehse and obstacles in the decision of something like suicide undermine the individual choice of the act even if it’s carried out.
Similarly, this universail notion of seemingly unconditional free chice being stopped short by society has appeared and been examined in literature time and time again. Thoreau’s <walden> shows a man’s attempt toosiloate himself form society in order to speculate precisley this issue (aomong many others) Yet he fails, returning to society – individual’s animalistic, basic need for interaction and approval often bring down attempts to be liberated by the rules of soceity. Even when one isolates himself completely society and its rules tug him at his human core to get back. Another example is Thomas Hardy’s <the mayor="" of="" casterbridge=""> - protagonist Michael Henchard could have possibily avoided tragedy had he not abided to sicety’s rules, expectations and norms and took in his wife and daughter that he’d auctioned off years ago. Was he free to choose? Did he take them in out of free choice? It washijs decision in the end yet that decision itself was triggered by society’s rules. His ‘choice’ was chosen for him by society.
The question of free choice has fascinated and frustrated mankind for centuries. Freedom is something we all crvae for; therfore esay to be faked and made an illusion of. No man or woman is free from society’s influences nor is there any jind ont infected by social norms and conventional patterns of thought. Our decisions are never really free form society’s rules.</the></walden></p>
<p>(...i did not read <walden>. Please excuse the spelling mistakes about 80% of them is due to my ****ty typing skills)</walden></p>