about Human Nature

The human characteristic of message distortion is general. People like to project an optimistic impression, even though they are privately dealing with issues. Others like to be recognized for belonging to classes that are considered to be superior to others. Much of the time, judgment is associated with biased information gathering. This essay demonstrates that it is common for individuals to try to build a favorable impression in the public eye and pursue undeserved praise, but this characteristic may have negative effects.

Mrs. Hopewell believed that allowing girls to attend school was a positive way to provide a good time for them.\However, Joy was not strong enough to go back to school after her health experiences. Her doctors claimed that the maximum age that the girl could attain was 45 years after being diagnosed of heart condition, and she could reach that age if she could access a good care. Despite that Mrs. Hopewell felt sorry for her, she felt that Joy did not dislike the condition because it had enabled her see the country’s beautiful features and good people. However, in her mind, Joy knew that she could be a team instructor in a university at her home country (O'Connor 231). Additionally, Mrs. Hopewell thought that if Joy was at home as a lecturer, she could hardly lecture anything besides her heart condition (that she could hardly go worrying about it).Therefore, Mrs. Hopewell thinks that Joy is better off to be sick but in the developed country instead of being in good health and stay at her home country.

There other form of judgment is when Mrs. Hopewell illustrates how she feels about Joy’s dress code. Hopewell perceives that Joy’s old skirt and yellow shirt is ‘funny and idiotic. However, the ridicule indicates inconsiderateness because it is the conditions that are in the new country that have left Joy in her state. According to Hopewell, Joy is brilliant but foolish because her uncourt character (rude, bloated and squint eyed) became increasingly different from that of the host community rather than becoming similar. However, the belief might have risen as a result of lack of understanding. Apparently, Joy decision to avoid assimilating with the host communities could result from the failure of its people, including Mrs. Hopewell to indicate good attributes such as generosity.

From the case, it can be established that Mrs. Hopewell has a breezy outlook to the world. She assesses herself simplistically as an occupant of the top class and underestimates the rest, which makes her insensitive of their feelings. She overrates her country and perceives that it is so superior that people from less fortunate countries will be happier to stay there regardless of their condition. She rarely acknowledges Joy’s viewpoints about life. Her behavior indicates an attribute of finding it hard to accept the face value of information that trickles into the mind. Her judgmental argument about Joy’s country indicates love for undeserved flattery. As claimed by Barrett, Komaromy, Robb, & Rogers (p305), being too judgmental limits Mrs. Hopewell from establishing the difference between the ideal discomforts troubling Joy about her country

Experiences that satisfy the need of lives of the two people are distinct. It is easy to figure out how poor people perceive the world differently from the rich. Protection of dignity is paramount to people that perceive themselves as wealthy as reflected in the character of Mrs. Hopewell. When Joy acts against the beliefs of Hopewell, she is displayed as a deviant. Mrs. Hopewell is obsessed with pretense to be a good person, the nature that she perceives her people have. However, for the reader, she is not such good because she understands that Joy needs clothes, but she cannot buy her any other than pitying her and creating a negative image about her. Therefore, Mrs. Hopewell presents a human character of being obsessed to be associated with good without exhibiting the goodness at the individual level. On the other hand, for Joy, because of embarking on judging the people in the new country in a negative way, she finds it hard to get along with them.

Young Goodman Brown p.220

There are different rules that exist in the village. An inner private life and outer public life exist and deserve to be maintained. In the forest, a person can have fantasies of anything that he or she wishes to have but when he or she is in public, the inner ideas must be concealed to prevent scrutiny by the public. When the lady asks her mother loudly about the minister that kissed her by the book, the mother silences her saying that she must hold her peace (Hawthorne, 220). In the forest, Dimmesdale and Hester are happy together but the behavior is reversed when they are in public forum. In private, Dimmesdale is idolized while Hester is shunned.

In the case of Young Goodman Brown, there is a notion that different rules apply in different contexts in peoples lives. The behavior that a person exhibits is significantly dependent on the context that the person is in .People mind the pictures they portray under different contexts hence can alter their characters to manipulate other people’s perceptions about them. For instance, they can consider putting a happy face to cover up of what is taking place in their secret lives. The behavior of concealing character is connected with fear and acceptance. People do not like it when their peers think or judge them differently from the way they want. Hiding character is the only way of creating and sustaining their friendships and maintaining their self-esteem. Feelings of greatness come as a result of their connections with clothes and looks that make the unique. Apparently, judging people on how they look in public can create wrongful perceptions about the lives of the people.

In conclusion, people like seeking undeserved appreciation and portraying a false pictures of their ideal self in public. Being too judgmental about the way people talk and act can result in misunderstanding, and consequently, conflicts. In the case of portraying false pictures, some people prefer presenting false self with a goal of being accepted instead of acting in their true selves. Judging people on how they look can therefore lead to wrong decisions because the visual information is not ordinarily accurate.

Works Cited

Barrett, Sheila, Carol Komaromy, Martin Robb, and Anita Rogers,A. eds. Communication, relationships and care: a reader.2004. Print

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown, and Other Short Stories. , 1992. Print

O'Connor, Flannery, and Lisa Alther. A Good Man Is Hard to Find: & Other Stories. London: Women's Press, 1980. Print.