Certainty vs Doubt
Hannah Miller
APLAC- .5
12-16-12
Certainty vs. Doubt Though doubt and certainty are opposite, they both have pros and cons to them. When you look at the pros and cons of each of them they fall equally important in a person’s life. This, because with certainty, according to Phelps , is a way to accomplish anything that life will throw at you which will allow for success, but as Russell says you must still doubt in order to move more forward in your thoughts and opinions to get to success. With both certainty and doubt success is sure to follow. Phelps expresses to us in his statement that certainty is all you need to achieve whatever it is that you are wanting. Though there are times when certainty does help us to achieve, there are other times when it blinds us from what is truly going on around us. Certainty is necessary when you need the confidence going into something, like a speech for instance. If you lack confidence you won’t know what you are going to say and that won’t help you to get to the point you are trying to speak about, but if you had that certainty then there wouldn’t be a problem with achieving what you want to say. The downfall to certainty is clearly shown in The Crucible. In this play, Danforth, a judge, is so cetain that witchery is among his town that he wont stop at anything to get rid of it and he truly doesn’t. He takes the lives of many innocent people of the town just because of accusations of others and his certainty that they are true, but if he would have relooked at his actions to the innocent people he knew well before the accusations then his certainty wouldn’t have played such a damaging role. On the other hand you also have the pros and cons of doubt. With the pros of doubt there may be times when a situation has occurred, possible even more than once, that doubt could help them reach a better outcome in their life than before; just as Russell expresses through we need to entertain our situation with doubts from
APLAC- .5
12-16-12
Certainty vs. Doubt Though doubt and certainty are opposite, they both have pros and cons to them. When you look at the pros and cons of each of them they fall equally important in a person’s life. This, because with certainty, according to Phelps , is a way to accomplish anything that life will throw at you which will allow for success, but as Russell says you must still doubt in order to move more forward in your thoughts and opinions to get to success. With both certainty and doubt success is sure to follow. Phelps expresses to us in his statement that certainty is all you need to achieve whatever it is that you are wanting. Though there are times when certainty does help us to achieve, there are other times when it blinds us from what is truly going on around us. Certainty is necessary when you need the confidence going into something, like a speech for instance. If you lack confidence you won’t know what you are going to say and that won’t help you to get to the point you are trying to speak about, but if you had that certainty then there wouldn’t be a problem with achieving what you want to say. The downfall to certainty is clearly shown in The Crucible. In this play, Danforth, a judge, is so cetain that witchery is among his town that he wont stop at anything to get rid of it and he truly doesn’t. He takes the lives of many innocent people of the town just because of accusations of others and his certainty that they are true, but if he would have relooked at his actions to the innocent people he knew well before the accusations then his certainty wouldn’t have played such a damaging role. On the other hand you also have the pros and cons of doubt. With the pros of doubt there may be times when a situation has occurred, possible even more than once, that doubt could help them reach a better outcome in their life than before; just as Russell expresses through we need to entertain our situation with doubts from