Approximate topics of the final essay 2017-2018 (list). Direction "Man and Society".
What is the conflict between the individual and society?
Do you agree with Plautus' statement: "man is a wolf to man"?
What, in your opinion, does the thought of A. De Saint-Exupery mean: “All roads lead to people”?
Can a person exist outside of society?
Can a person change society?
How does society affect a person?
Is society responsible for every individual?
How does society influence the individual's opinion?
Do you agree with the statement of G. K. Lichtenberg: “In every person there is something from all people.
Is it possible to live in society and be free from it?
What is tolerance?
Why is it important to maintain individuality?
Confirm or refute the statement of A. de Stael: “You can’t be sure of your behavior or your well-being when we make it dependent on people’s opinions”
Do you agree with the statement: “Inequality humiliates people and instills dissent and hatred between them”?
Do you think it's fair to say that strong people are often lonely?
Is Tyutchev's opinion fair that "any weakening of mental life in society inevitably entails an increase in material inclinations and vilely selfish instincts"?
Are social norms of behavior necessary?
What kind of person can be called dangerous to society?
Do you agree with the statement of V. Rozanov: “Society, those around you diminish the soul, but do not add it. “Adds” only the closest and rarest sympathy, “soul to soul” and “one mind”?
Is it possible to call any person a person?
What happens to a person cut off from society?
Why should society help the underprivileged?
How do you understand the statement of I. Becher: “A person becomes a person only among people”?
Do you agree with the statement of H. Keller: “The most beautiful life is a life lived for other people”
In what situations does a person feel lonely in society?
What is the role of the individual in history?
How does society influence people's decisions?
Confirm or refute I. Goethe's statement: "Only in people is a person capable of knowing himself."
How do you understand F. Bacon's statement: “Anyone who loves loneliness is either a wild beast or the Lord God”?
Is a person responsible to society for his actions?
Is it difficult to defend your interests before society?
How do you understand the words of S.E. Letsa: “Zero is nothing, but two zeros already mean something”?
Should I express my opinion if it differs from the opinion of the majority?
There is safety in numbers?
What is more important: personal interests or public interests?
To what does society's indifference to man lead?
Do you agree with the opinion of A. Morois: “You should not be guided by public opinion. This is not a lighthouse, but wandering lights?
How do you understand the expression "little man"?
Why does a person strive to be original?
Does society need leaders?
Do you agree with the words of K. Marx: “If you want to influence other people, then you must be a person who really stimulates and moves other people forward”?
Can a person devote his life to the interests of society?
Who is a misanthrope?
How do you understand the statement of A.S. Pushkin: “The frivolous world mercilessly persecutes in fact what it allows in theory”?
What causes inequality in society?
Are social norms changing?
Do you agree with the words of C. L. Burne: “A person can do without much, but not without a person”?
Is a person responsible to society?
Can the individual win in the fight against society?
How can a person change history?
Do you think it's important to have an opinion?
Can a person become an individual apart from society?
How do you understand G. Freytag's statement: “In the soul of every person there is a miniature portrait of his people”?
Can social norms be violated?
What is the place of man in a totalitarian state?
How do you understand the phrase: “one head is good, but two is better”?
Are there people whose work is invisible to society?
Is it difficult to maintain individuality in a team?
Do you agree with W. Blackstone's statement: “Man is created for society. He is unable and does not have
the courage to live alone"?
Confirm or refute the statement of J. M. Cage: "We need communication more than anything else"
What is equality in society?
What are community organizations for?
Can it be argued that a person's happiness depends solely on the characteristics of his social life?
Do you agree that a person is shaped by society?
How does society treat people who are very different from it?
How do you understand the statement of W. James: “Society degenerates if it does not receive impulses from individuals”?
How do you understand the phrase "public consciousness"?
What is missing in today's society?
Do you agree with I. Goethe's statement: “Man cannot live in solitude, he needs society”?
How do you understand T. Dreiser's statement: "People think about us what we want to inspire them"?
Do you agree that “there is nothing more dangerous in society than a person without character”?
List of literature for preparation for the final essay. "Man and society".
A.P. Chekhov "", "", "", "", "Death of an official", "The Cherry Orchard"
J. Verne "Mysterious Island"
S. Collins "The Hunger Games"
W. Thackeray "Vanity Fair"
F.M. Dostoevsky "The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Poor People"
M. Gorky "At the bottom", "Former people"
A. Camus "Outsider"
Ch.T. Aitmatov "And the day lasts longer than a century"
D. Defoe "Robinson Crusoe"
W. Groom "Forrest Gump"
A.N. Tolstoy "Peter the Great"
E. Hemingway "To have and not to have"
V. V. Nabokov "Invitation to execution"
E.I. Zamyatin "We"
A. Platonov "Pit"
B. Pasternak "Doctor"
J. Orwell "1984", "Animal Farm"
R. Bradbury "451 degrees Fahrenheit", "Martian Chronicles" N.V. Gogol "Dead Souls", "Overcoat"
A.I. Kuprin "Garnet bracelet", "Olesya"
W. Golding "Lord of the Flies"
G. Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
G. Hesse "Steppenwolf"
R. Gallego "White on Black"
T. Dreiser "Sister Kerry", "American tragedy"
J. Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath"
D. Mitchell "Cloud Atlas"
A. de Saint-Exupery "The Little Prince"
O. Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
J. Sallinger "The Catcher in the Rye"
M.A. Bulgakov "Heart of a Dog"
A. Rand "Atlas Shrugged"
E. Fromm "Escape from Freedom"
I.A. Goncharov "Ordinary History"
F. Kafka "Process"
Ch. Palahniuk "Fight Club"
Kindness is the desire to help people, and without demanding gratitude for it.
This property of the soul, which allows not to remain indifferent to the troubles of others,
to be around when it is so necessary for a person.
Kindness and sympathy are the basis of the character of Russians, who are always striving to help not only their neighbor,
but also to a total stranger.
Kindness is also a gentle, caring attitude towards people, all life on earth.
The kindness of a child is manifested in his caress for a cat or puppy,
in his care of flowers, kindness must be taught from childhood.
Kindness is a somewhat abstract concept.
Much can be invested in the meaning of this word.
At first glance, it is easy to answer the question: what does kindness mean.
But at the same time it is difficult. After all, kindness is the basis of such concepts as mercy, empathy, sympathy, selflessness and even heroism.
It is love for a person, kindness, the desire to save him that becomes the motivation for a heroic deed.
And what gives kindness to a person?
Of course, respect and love of loved ones, good relations with friends and colleagues.
But kindness is often shown so disinterestedly that the person who has committed a good deed even remains unknown. For him, the main thing is to help others.
An unknown person transferred a large amount of money for the treatment of a child in need.
Do good, and it will definitely return to you, even from the side of sometimes completely strangers to you!
Composition-reasoning on the thematic direction Kindness and cruelty
Cruelty is a rude, aggressive attitude towards living beings,
I don't feel any pity.
It can be expressed in words or in the use of force.
Cruelty can arise due to stress or some kind of mental trauma.
A young child may experience cruelty because someone in the family is cruel,
and it just copies the behavior.
Most often occurs in families where there are constant quarrels and assault.
The child looking at this either takes the side of the offender and behaves in the same way, or takes the side of the victim and becomes angry towards everyone because of suffering. And in a teenager, cruelty can arise either due to the fact that no one notices him either at home, at school, or with friends.
Cruelty is probably the result of the incorrect formation of the human personality, when, during upbringing in childhood, parents do not see a person in a child, do not evaluate him as a person.
Cruelty is generated either by dislike or indifference to the child, or vice versa by boundless blind love, which gives rise to permissiveness.
School or a bad group of friends, the Internet, all this breeds cruelty in a child, which grows and gets stronger over the years. From childhood, it is necessary to instill in the child respect for him as a person, to instill respect for the child for himself and for the people around him, to be able to evaluate his actions and the ability to be responsible for them.
But often this is not the case in many families when raising children.
And cruelty begins to manifest itself from small things, when children begin torturing animals, offending children weaker than themselves, not respecting the elderly, all this then grows into a tougher framework.
In simple words, cruelty can be called a rude and disgusting attitude towards others.
Where does it come from?
Many believe that such a character trait in a person is born due to a lack of love,
respect and attention from others.
However, there are cases when a person becomes cruel far from because of this.
Violent people feel no pity for those who are hurt.
The cause of cruelty can be both childhood psychological trauma,
and disappointment in someone or something.
It is not for nothing that there is such a science as psychology, which just encourages scientists and doctors to study the causes of such character traits.
Composition-reasoning on the thematic direction Kindness and cruelty
Kindness is a quality that should be familiar to every person,
every inhabitant of our planet should have it.
A kind person is always ready to help all those in need and give the last piece of bread,
without asking for anything in return.
Kindness must be selfless if a person does good for the sake of getting something in return,
then such a person cannot be called truly kind.
Kindness is something without which we cannot exist, and it is difficult to disagree with such a statement.
People donate blood to help others, do charity work and do everything to make other people feel good. Can good people be called altruists? – perhaps yes!
Many kind people can be called altruists, because such people do good without demanding anything in return.
Some people not only sometimes help others whenever possible, but also create entire charitable organizations in order to help a huge number of people.
People at all times considered kindness one of the most important human qualities, we observe the victory of goodness in folk tales, stories and other literary works of various genres. People like it when they see the victory of good over evil in books, so the authors of various works most often end their works with just this very victory.
Today, people with real kindness are becoming less and less.
Indifference and selfishness take their toll, depriving humanity of one of the most valuable qualities.
Many people calmly walk past other people's problems, pretending not to notice anything. Everyone has their own affairs - endless worries, work, people stop appreciating priceless qualities and gradually become robots.
I hope that someday humanity will again prefer real, live communication, will appreciate true friendship and will be not indifferent to people who need help. Now computers have made people more callous and less "alive", kindness has become not as important a quality as it used to be.
When we give up our seat in public transport or help elderly people cross the road, we are doing good, but, unfortunately, few people now think that such actions should be more correctly attributed to our duties, and not to the act of kindness as such.
Kindness is something more, accessible to everyone and, at the same time, characteristic of a few.
The theme of the relationship between man and the community of people is one of the most relevant, both in classical Russian literature and in the modern world. Society is a part of the world that lives, develops, has certain time frames, values and traditions. And the unit of society is none other than man. He cannot choose to unite people specifically for himself: he becomes part of society from birth. It is he who subsequently forms the personality, its interests and way of thinking. But is a person capable of turning the lives of those around him? Can it develop outside its structure? How does social pressure affect individuals?
1. In his epic novel “War and Peace”, L.N. Tolstoy reveals the duality of the nature of Russian high society in the early 19th century. On the one hand, the reader observes the life of the high society of St. Petersburg and sees the whole world, with its own laws and moral principles, oriented towards Europe. However, in all high relationships, Tolstoy emphasizes one striking detail - unnaturalness. Luscious strained smiles, ladies in the most beautiful dresses, but cold and deathly pale, as if made of marble, and behind all this imaginary splendor, emptiness and indifference are hidden. The discussion of foreign news at high-society receptions quickly bored a thinking person, and he soon became disillusioned with the outward splendor of pompous gentlemen. On the other hand, Tolstoy paints portraits of such noble and sensitive representatives of the upper class as Pierre Bezukhov, Andrei Bolkonsky, Natasha Rostova and others. A lively mind glimmers in them, there is an interest in the world and people, they are opposed to the dead from St. Petersburg salons. However, they all felt like strangers in high society, and were even deceived and disgraced by it more than once. Their individuality, which favorably differed from the dullness and hypocrisy of society, was able to form only at a distance from it, thanks to exceptional families or education abroad.
2. M. Gorky sang his romantic ideal in the work “Old Woman Izergil”. He was embodied in the beautiful young man Danko, to whom the author contrasted the image of the young man Larra. Larra, the son of an eagle and a woman, incapable of true love, pity, self-sacrifice. Life, a great value kept by a person, becomes a living hell for him. He is not able to understand its fragility and transience. Selfish Larra can only receive, but not give in return. And Gorky emphasizes that Larra will never find freedom, since true freedom must be shared with other people in order to establish harmony. Danko, on the contrary, spares nothing for society. He is open to the world and, without hesitation, sacrifices his life to save his native tribe. He obviously does not expect gratitude, because his entire existence is aimed at the human good. Gorky saw the meaning of life in serving society.
3. M.A. Bulgakov in the novel "The Master and Margarita" sharply raises the question of the relationship between society and an individual person. His hero is a true genius who wrote an amazing novel. However, after the publication, the Master does not gain popular love, but, on the contrary, is subjected to persecution in the press. And from whom does he get these infuriated reviews and pamphlets? From a society of miserable graphomaniacs from MASSOLIT, pseudo-writers and envious people. The author presents a group of “artists” as caustic and insidious, knowing himself firsthand about him. And in the end, this very society, with endless attacks and harassment, forces the Master to destroy his beautiful creation and brings him to a madhouse. He is no longer a part of this nasty gathering, and his beloved Margarita becomes his entire society, and the soul finds eternal peace.
4. Any society must develop by all means. In comedy A.S. Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit" demonstrates the ossified Famus society - a gathering of noble people, miserable and ignorant. Famusov's guests go dumb with delight when Frenchmen from Bordeaux, Parisian milliners and rootless foreign crooks call in. Chatsky is opposed to them, denouncing their pernicious worship of the Western world and rejection of their own path. He is bright, hot, eager to learn something new, impatient and passionate. It is he who stands up for freedom, art, mind and brings a new high morality to the Famusov world, however, the stiff world of Famusov does not accept change and cuts any rudiments of the new, bright and beautiful in the bud. Such is the age-old conflict between the progressive individual and the crowd, which gravitates towards conservatism.
5. The main character of the novel M.Yu. is also filled with a rebellious spirit. Lermontov "A Hero of Our Time". Pechorin does not accept many established social rules, but still tries to find a common language with the world around him. His personality, like the personalities of many others, is formed under the action of several forces: the first is his will, the second is the society and the era in which he exists. Internal torment makes Pechorin seek harmony among other people. He rips off their masks, gives them inner freedom, but invariably each of them fails. That is why the hero remains alone every time, immersed in deep introspection and the search for his own "I". In such a society, he simply cannot find himself and realize his inner potential.
6. In the novel by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's "Lord Golovlev" on the example of one prosperous family shows the life of the nobility. The Golovlev family, as a direct cell of high society, reflects all of its most monstrous vices: greed, idleness, ignorance, laziness, hypocrisy, stupidity, inability to work. Arina Petrovna Golovleva managed the estate all her life, thoughtlessly accumulated wealth, and at the same time morally and morally corrupted her offspring. She constantly used the word “family” in her speech, but when she saw how all the property she had acquired was snatched up by her insidious children, Arina Petrovna realized that she lived for the sake of a ghost, and there had never been a real family in her life. So the "higher" society, greedy, helpless and lazy, will certainly find its death in its own sins.
7. The world of A. And Solzhenitsyn’s story “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” is bleak, stingy with colors, hopeless. Here people no longer have names, the main determinant is the camp number. Human life has lost its value, and the habits of the inhabitants of the camp are more like animals: all they think about is satisfying their biological needs in order not to die. Among them, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov himself should have gone berserk long ago, lost his human qualities. However, despite all the difficulties of fate, he rejoices at every day he lives on Earth. His small fortunes turn into big ones on the scale of the enclosed space of the camp. Prisoner number eight hundred and fifty-four did not sour or squint. He is still capable of sympathy and pity for his neighbor. In contrast to Ivan Denisovich, camp guards were placed, who ensured a wonderful life for themselves by turning prisoners into slaves. They put themselves above the inhabitants of the camp, thereby violating human laws, excluding themselves from human society.
8. Contrasts the hero with society and A.P. Chekhov in the story "Ionych". At the beginning of the work, Dmitry Ionych Startsev appears before us, a zemstvo doctor, who is opposed to the heroes of the city of S., gray and ignorant people. This is especially evident in the example of the Turkin family, whom Startsev visits. The whole family strives to show off their imaginary "talents", which actually do not exist, and each of them revels in their stupidity. Turkins are static, there is no development in their images. But Startsev is not trying to change anything, but on the contrary, he slowly begins to adapt to the world around him. Under the influence of external forces, he also degrades, sinks to the moral bottom, is carried away by hoarding, grows fat, becomes stupid, ceases to be interested in anything. And at the end we see simply Ionych, a man without a name and without a core, reshaped to fit the low standards of the society of the city of S.
9. In the novel by M.A. Sholokhov's Quiet Flows the Don, the protagonist goes a long way in search of his place in the troubled society of revolutionary times. Grigory Melekhov rushes about, trying to figure out which camp he should join and whom to support in a brutal fratricidal war. "Mad World" frightens the hero, internal torments torment him. In addition to this, there are also love ups and downs. His feelings for Aksinya, forbidden, but deep, push Melekhov to serious actions - he leaves his family, goes against generally accepted norms, in order to finally solve all the troubles and storms of the soul. He, tired of constant thoughts and discord, wants peace and tranquility. That is why, returning home, Melekhov throws the gun into the water. However, a short-sighted society does not accept his search, sticks the yoke of a "traitor" and persecutes an already unarmed and broken person, not knowing compassion.
10.F.M. Dostoevsky in his novel "Crime and Punishment" shows what the decline of society is pushing ordinary citizens to. There are several reasons why Rodion Raskolnikov decided to kill the old pawnbroker. One of them, of course, has roots in the personality of Rodion. But society, mired in poverty and sins, also played a significant role in the student's decision. Raskolnikov himself was choked by lousy poverty, and he, susceptible to other people's suffering, went to a terrible crime. Nothing else makes sense in a society where money, simple pieces of paper have become the main value, and everyone has long forgotten about high morality. A simple girl Sonya Marmeladova takes the path of a prostitute in order to earn money for her family. And her father, without thinking about his relatives, drinks everything in taverns that stink of rotten human souls, while weighty moneybags revel in their wealth earned on the lives of ordinary people. So the author shows that it is impossible to live in society and be free from it: its problems automatically become yours.
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We write an introduction. It can be like this: “Just like a group of people, a person alone can also resist society. The life of such a person becomes difficult, often tragic. Surrounding people may be indifferent to such a person, they may show cruelty, up to death, they may slander a person, they may spread an implausible rumor about a person’s physical or mental state.
Let's move on to the main part of the essay. We begin to reveal the topic and confirm it with the first argument: “A person who single-handedly opposed the noble society is shown in the comedy by A.S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit" is a representative of the advanced noble intelligentsia. A.A. Chatsky came to Moscow to the house of the noble official Famusov. The worldview of this man was different from the views of the guests of Famusov - the Moscow nobility. The disagreements concerned many topics: serfdom, education and upbringing, the attitude of the nobles to the service. A.A. Chatsky did not recognize a state system based on serfdom, believed that such people who could exchange devoted serfs for dogs did not have the right to be called "fathers of the fatherland", could not be a model for the younger generation. He spoke about this in the monologue “And who are the judges? ..” Chatsky does not want to serve - as many nobles did. He despised servility, believing that it was necessary to serve the cause. Young nobles, according to Chatsky, should be free to choose an occupation - to devote themselves to science or art. Standing up for the development of national culture, he wanted Russia to have no thoughtless, "...blind imitation" of a foreign way of life.
For the Famus society, Chatsky is an ideological enemy, so it decided to deal with him with the help of slander: Sophia first accidentally, and then deliberately started a rumor about Chatsky's madness. In the article "A Million of Torments" by I.A. Goncharov called the protagonist of the play, who dared to resist society, "an ardent and brave fighter."
We continue to reveal the theme of the essay, we give the second argument: “He lived differently from the rest of the people around him, the main character of the story A.P. Platonov "Yushka". He also opposed society, but quietly and silently. The blacksmith's assistant Efim Dmitrievich stubbornly lived according to his moral laws: he was born to live, all around are good people, only they do not know how to express their kindness, to give everything they can to support another, even significantly infringing on themselves. Everyone considered him strange, did not trust him, could insult him, even beat him. The children teased him. And he was mostly silent. His life ended tragically. One person did not like the way Yushka was talking to him, and he pushed Yushka. He fell and died. So a person in poor health, who gave all his beggarly earnings to his adopted daughter, so that she received an education, as best he could, resisted the cruel world of people.
Topics of the final essay 2017 - 2018
"Man and society". The purpose of this direction is to show the inextricable link between a person and society. It is worth considering what influence the people around us have on us, how communication with them affects our thinking and behavior. Evaluating someone, we cannot but pay attention to his position in society. Literature has always shown interest in the problem of the relationship between society and man. Does a person who rejects society lose something? Why can society reject people?
This direction is focused on two points of view: to consider the role of an individual person in society and the significance of society in a person's life. People, for various reasons, often reject the environment, and the environment is also intolerant of those who do not take into account the rules established in it. The reasons for such rejection may be personal principles, delusions, fear, or even insanity.
Many authors raised the problem of the relationship between society and man, which is still relevant today. This direction aims at reasoning about what prompts a person to isolate himself from society, or, conversely, obey social laws. Every person is an important part of society, anyone can contribute. So how are people and society interconnected? Is it really that important to be a part of it?
Friends! This is an approximate list of topics for the final essay of 2017. Read it carefully and try to find an argument and a thesis for each topic. Here the direction "Man and Society" is revealed from all possible sides. You will probably come across other quotes in your essay, but they will still carry the same meaning. And if you work with this list, you will not have any difficulty in writing the final essay.
- How does society influence people's decisions?
- If you want to make an impact on other people, then you have to be a person who really stimulates and moves other people forward. (K. Marx)
- What causes inequality in society?
- Do you agree that “there is nothing more dangerous in society than a person without character”?
- If people interfere with you, then you have no reason to live. (L. N. Tolstoy)
- What is the conflict between the individual and society?
- In loneliness, a person is either a saint or a devil. (R. Burton)
- How does society affect a person?
- Are social norms changing?
- Man to man is a wolf. (Plavt)
- Is it difficult to defend your interests before society?
- Do you think it's fair to say that strong people are often lonely?
- To what does society's indifference to man lead?
- Is a person responsible to society for his actions?
- How does society influence the individual's opinion?
- Why should society help the underprivileged?
- Do you agree that a person is shaped by society?
- Don't rely on public opinion. This is not a lighthouse, but wandering lights. (A. Morua)
- What is equality in society?
- Man cannot live in solitude, he needs society. (I. Goethe)
- Can a person exist outside of society?
- Are there people whose work is invisible to society?
- How do you understand the phrase: “one head is good, but two is better”?
- What is tolerance?
- To work for the people is the most urgent task. (V. Hugo)
- All roads lead to people. (A. de Saint-Exupery)
- Anyone who loves loneliness is either a wild beast or the Lord God. (F. Bacon)
- Frivolous light mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory. (A.S. Pushkin)
- Only in people can a person know himself. (I. Goethe)
- What are community organizations for?
- A person becomes a person only among people. (I. Becher)
- Is society responsible for every individual?
- Man is made for society. He is unable and does not have the courage to live alone. (W. Blackstone)
- What kind of person can be called dangerous to society?
- Can a person devote his life to the interests of society?
- Why is it important to maintain individuality?
- Any weakening of mental life in society inevitably entails an increase in material inclinations and vile egoistic instincts. (Tyutchev)
- Should I express my opinion if it differs from the opinion of the majority?
Nature creates man, but society develops and shapes him. (V. G. Belinsky) - Can a person change society?
- Who is a misanthrope?
- How do you understand the expression "little man"?
- In every person there is something from all people. Is it possible to live in society and be free from it? (G.K. Lichtenberg)
- Zero is nothing, but two zeros already mean something. (S. E. Lets)
- Is it difficult to maintain individuality in a team?
- What is the role of the individual in history?
- There is safety in numbers? What is more important: personal interests or public interests?
- Why does a person strive to be original?
- Is a person responsible to society?
- How do you understand the phrase "public consciousness"? What is missing in today's society?
- We need fellowship more than anything else (D. M. Cage)
Does society need leaders? - If everyone is a whole world, why can't one be without the other? (L. I. Boleslavsky)
- What happens to a person cut off from society?
Society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals. (W. James) - Are social norms of behavior necessary?
- Can it be argued that a person's happiness depends solely on the characteristics of his social life?
- People think of us what we want them to think. (T. Dreiser)
- The most beautiful life is a life lived for other people (H. Keller)
- A person can do without many things, but not without a person. (C. L. Burne)
- Is it possible to call any person a person?
