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Immortality in Life and Literature

Immortality in Life and Literature

Why is it that when ever you go to a park or one of the most oldest public monuments, you'll see something carved in it or around it? Wether it says:

"Janet & Mark '87" or "Samuel .L '74". These carvings were found on a huge rock formation in Wildcat Canyon National park. What motivates these people to do this? Do they just like to write thier names in strange places? Maybe for some people it is, but my explanation is that they want to be remembered. They want people to walk around there and read the carvings, and ask questions and think of them to themselves like: "I wonder who they are" or if people know already who they are they'll ask "Wow, I remember them! Gosh, its been so long, I wonder how they are, if they're alive". This act is a need for immortality. They want something they made to be remembered by the public, and possibly influence them to add thier names to the oversized historical autograph pad. The universal definition of immortality is to live forever, although no one can actually achieve it unless your some sort of superior human being, which I doubt anyone is. You may not live forever but other people's memory of you might. Great stories, passed down from generation is a way, making a national monument that represents you is another.

Immortality is very hard to obtain, and Willy Loman from the play Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller is proof. A lost man who thought he can leave a mark in the world by being a salesman. He had a dream to become loved, and known, which would be the American Dream, but this dream led to his own death. As Arthur Miller would put it when he was talking about the play, obtaining immortality is like inscribing your name onto a cake of ice, on a hot July day. Like his concurring dreams, its futile. Thats why its a greater need than hunger, sex and thirst. Its something so difficult to accomplish that its almost impossible. Willy Loman has failed, unlike his role model Dave Singlemen, He tried so hard to be remembered and loved like Dave that he practically blinded himself from the truth. If you made a handprint in wet cement, will it stay there forever? It will eventually...

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