Throughout the reading I noticed how the portrayal of emotions or atleast allowing yourself to feel strong emotions is something to be guarded against and "controlled" or it will lead to problems. The fact that the end of the play says mpore or less to "kill your emotions" by being "like a gravestone" in the original ending of the book which was so uncharacteristicly dark and I thought unnecessary for a message, since yes, people can have strong emotions and it might get you into trouble but that's better than going through life and never truly taking any happiness in it. This sets up a perfect discussion of human nature in that people aren't one thing or the other, humans are multi-layered and our history has be littered with massive Titans who have done good things for humanity and absolutely dispicable things to there fellow man but from that happening a better society was created.
The fact that the Original ending had such a brutal ending with Caleb going mad and saying that life has no true meaning except to kill your emotions to lead a life without problems and disappointments and the Published ending where the moral of the story about who was right and wrong is left up to the reader to truly decide which I thought was a cop-out, you can't have a entire book about a moral message and just have the reader decide who's right, who's wrong, or if anyone is right or wrong? Thinking about it later I realized that the published ending and leaving it up to the reader to decide who's right reminded me of our own justice system where individuals are chosen, hear evidence and then make a decision, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the criminal under scrutiny was wrong to do what he did. This sets up a fascinating discussion about the very nature of our justice system where peers judge and decide whether a person is guilty or not but can such a thing as person being judged entirely by the evidence presented be truly realized? In the past couple of years with the usage of technology many people who were judged guilty have been found to be innocent and factors such as the fact that the attorney provided for counsel for the accussed was underexperienced has played a part in people being wrongfully incarcerated. Social status has also played a part in people being found guilty in that in living in a poor environment many people must resort to crime for basic needs being met, so that can also play a part in people being wrongfully found guilty. So is it possible for people to live in a society where every person who is in jail rightfully belongs there?
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