Temptation and desire in Pearl Buck's book "The Good Earth."

Temptation and Desire

Temptation is a daily obstacle lurking around the corner for both man, woman, and child. Desire begins with the earliest ages as the toddler reaches for the large man of chocolate candy. As an adult it is learnt that every temptation has a danger like getting that chocolate candy on the carpet and it is non always probable to take that risk, but there will always be those few desires that can non be pushed out of thought. The desires that reach so far down into the intellect that a person cannot get enough of them so it is as though a man, dying of thirst, drank the salt water of the sea which, though it is water, yet dries his blood into thirst and yet greater thirst so that in the end he dies, wild by his very drinking.(183) Some people would do anything or concede anything they had in order to acquire these wants even give up their morals and values as seen in The practised Earth by: Pearl Buck. As soon as Wang Lung the originally poor farmer has a little especial(a) coin in his pocket he is thrusted into a universe of things that once he could not have had in his wildest dreams. This money makes having his disembodied spiritlong desires a reality but money is not the only thing sacrificed of Wand Lungs.



The reality of having something he could neer have before causes Wang Lung to do things he normally would not have done. With the increase of his money and power and the aid of tempters Wang Lung belatedly disregards his once sacred values only returning to them when his date has almost ran out.

Wang Lungs evolution from the hardworking peasant into the decadent life of an inert lord is...

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