"The Human Heart Has Ever Dreamed of a Fairer World Than the One It Known" by Carleton Noyes (Critical Lens)
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According to Carleton Noyes"The human heart has ever dreamed of a fairer world than the one it known."the meaning of this critical lens is that human beings are having always longing for a better life. Even if the life they presently live is as better as it could be, they always think that there is room for improvement. Two works of literature that show the meaning to this quote. The pearl by John Steinbeck is the perfect example and the Caribbean novel Crick Crack monkey by Merle Hodge.
The pearl is a tale of the human heart longing for something considered better. Kino the main character finds himself alone in a world of good against evil. He trys very hard to keep good coming his way. Even if it takes his life. This novel begins when Kino awakes to carry out his normal morning activities, along with his wife Juana who prepares breakfast. Unfortunately the morning’s normality goes array when Kino sights a scorpion crawling towards Coyotito, his baby, on the rope where the baby lay in a box. Juana hums a prayer about keeping evil way, while Kino reaches for the scorpion while it was falling, instead the scorpion fell through his fingers and landed on Coyotito and bit him. Desperate to heal their baby from any damage the scorpion sting may cause, they rush towards the only medical personnel they know in their community; A doctor of a race that has “beaten and starved and robbed and despised Kino’s race.” The doctor, a fat white man, who lives in a “city of Stone and plaster,” wants nothing more than to be “civilized” and “live in France,” is characterised by greed and ungratefulness. This shows a human heart longing for something better, even if it is considered better by other people oppressed on the lowest of a social ladder. In this case the doctor lives a much superior life than the Indians whom are at the bottom of the social scale in a socially stratified society. The doctor refuses to help Kino’s baby, and refers to the Indians as animals, by saying “I...
The pearl is a tale of the human heart longing for something considered better. Kino the main character finds himself alone in a world of good against evil. He trys very hard to keep good coming his way. Even if it takes his life. This novel begins when Kino awakes to carry out his normal morning activities, along with his wife Juana who prepares breakfast. Unfortunately the morning’s normality goes array when Kino sights a scorpion crawling towards Coyotito, his baby, on the rope where the baby lay in a box. Juana hums a prayer about keeping evil way, while Kino reaches for the scorpion while it was falling, instead the scorpion fell through his fingers and landed on Coyotito and bit him. Desperate to heal their baby from any damage the scorpion sting may cause, they rush towards the only medical personnel they know in their community; A doctor of a race that has “beaten and starved and robbed and despised Kino’s race.” The doctor, a fat white man, who lives in a “city of Stone and plaster,” wants nothing more than to be “civilized” and “live in France,” is characterised by greed and ungratefulness. This shows a human heart longing for something better, even if it is considered better by other people oppressed on the lowest of a social ladder. In this case the doctor lives a much superior life than the Indians whom are at the bottom of the social scale in a socially stratified society. The doctor refuses to help Kino’s baby, and refers to the Indians as animals, by saying “I...