Difficulty

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Ali Shibli

Miss Dania Adra

English 203

10 Oct. 15

 

 

               

         

               The “Social Contract Theory” plays a major role in defining the human psycho and personality. The picture above resembles “shaking hands”, which is a part of the social contract in which people throughout history developed and moderated upon agreements and acceptances of different norms and thoughts that others might adopt. This contract, however was accompanied by the suppression of the individual’s egoism and desires to the sociocultural norms and become open on the various cultures that he encounter. This is embodied by the “shaking hands” in the picture.

               On the other hand, I believe that Jean-Jacques Rousseau granted us a deeper view of the social contract in his text “The Social Contract”, published in 1762. This text is a basic stamina for the upholding theory of the social contract that discusses the gaps that lies within the individual’s personality and his submission to the social norms and habits engrained in the society he lives in (Rousseau 114). He sheds light on the enormous benefits that the person gains while being deprived of many advantages that he got from nature (Rousseau 114); i.e. the logic that the human is born with enhances him with the right of equality amongst people, and the right given to one must also be equivalently and equally given to the other.

               As a matter of fact, I put my voice beside Rousseau’s one, that social aspects with all its types, and his interaction with people around, affect the personality of the individual and play a major role in his creating up his social contract (which is the main idea of the text), and makes him more convenient to live with people around, yet irrespective of his own interests at some times. It is the fact that people waive down their own habits and manners in the sense that it fits the “social requirements”. It is was led that Neanderthal to gather with one another to form tribes and clans ending up with the societies that we see today. All were a result of tolerance and acceptance of each other’s thoughts and ideas, in addition of the waiver of the bad habits and egos, as was illustrated in the thesis of Rousseau’s text.

               The picture extends the conversation of the text in a sense that after the individual’s waive of his own habits and submission to the social norms, one could picture the innovation and ingenuity that results from this cooperation and agreement between people and building thoughts upon thoughts as a basis for the future. So from the depth of darkness, we can still see light. We shall work together and support each other as a whole entity that resembles a source of power and integrity for the future generations.

 

 

Works Cited:

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "The Social Contract." Shifting Narratives. Ed. Zane Sinno, Lina Bioghlu-Karkanawi, Dorota Fleszar, Najla Jarkas, Emma Moughabghab, Jennifer M. Nish, Rima Rantisi, and Abir Ward. 1st edtion. Beirut: Educart, 2015. 113-15. Print.