Often times, we push aside reality in the hopes that we will escape the truth of our actions; however, whether we anticipate it or not, the honest and brutal truth will arise in one way or another. Many of us in our daily lives are faced with situations and circumstances that we, more times than not, would rather never go back to or look in depth about how it might affect our lives or those around us after the situation occurs. We hear from Philip K. Dick the harsh and severe truth that “reality denied comes back to haunt,” leading us to believe that by attempting to dodge the truth behind our actions, we are in turn creating bigger consequences for ourselves further down the road. While we might think that by avoiding our actions could only help us, we see that, in fact, withholding from dark realism might instead embed negativity into our lives.
As there is obvious and purposeful avoidance of reality, there is also avoidance that is brought on by guilt and fear, something we see as we are introduced to the characters in All My Sons, written by Arthur Miller. We meet Joe Keller, whose “trouble in a word, is not that he cannot tell right from wrong but that his cast of mind cannot admit that he, personally, has any connection with his world, his universe, or his society.” In certain instances, Miller has introduced psychological motifs in order to deepen his evocation of a guilt-laden past which intrudes into the present situation at a relentless pace in the true manner of the domestic tragedies.
With a past filled with countless misdeeds that will continue to haunt himself and his family, we, as the audience, witness the hard downfall that our now abysmal member of society comes to face. As we continue to remember that “reality denied comes back to haunt,” it isn’t difficult to see that Miller has hidden most of his truth in hopes that it would have been forgotten. Unfortunately for him, his past behaviours and actions have clearly created a downfall in consequences. While we see the regret that overcomes Miller, there is also a feeling of fear that comes as soon as he realizes the pain that he could potentially put his family through.
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Arthur Miller gives us an indication as to what shapes human nature and the role the individual himself plays and the role the society plays in shaping the individual’s life. It is a judgement of a Joe’s failure to maintain a viable connection with his surrounding world because he longer has that same connection within himself. Not only does Keller’s life serve as a judgment for his outlook on life, but he is “a man whose judgements must be dredged out of experience and a peasant‐like common sense.” His past actions have undoubtedly formed him into the
We have the incredible choice to either care and work for the greater good of others or to do whatever it takes to get ahead of everyone else in life, even if that means making public a drug that has the potential to harm lives. To put is as simply as he could, Garry Gray, author of “Why did thalidomide’s makers ignore warnings about their drug?,” and assistant Professor of Sociology, gives off the impression that scientists and pharmacology professionals are meant to do one thing: create new drugs that have the potential to help those in need.
As professionals in the medical field, there is a stress to constantly be coming out with a new drug or product that will catch the attention of the world watch, but when will it get to the point when these professionals start to put the true good of humans first, before a popular or high demand product? We read in Grays article that “for pragmatic scientists who depend on their employment or research funding, these principles could be compromising. Relaxing them can be rationalised as normal or acceptable, with hidden biases taking root and impacting how they conduct research and subsequent results.” Relaxing principles to lessen a workload, but at the same time, leaving room for “reports of infant deaths and startling birth malformations were made worldwide.”
These “wonder drug” creators are a perfect example of Dick’s idea that denied reality will eventually come back to haunt you, serving well-deserved consequences. Though it might not have been their sincerest intentions to cause harm to young children for fifty-six years, these people did have the opportunity to create to the best of their abilities; however, they didn’t and we see that many years after their actions, the consequences come barreling in. For these people, the reality is that they had every opportunity to work honestly, but they chose otherwise, forcing it to reoccur later on in life and cause more damage than it was worth.
From what we have read in the article by Gray, we see that people in power have the ability to make serious changes in this world, whether they be positive or negative. Donald Trump, our now President of the United States, has truly had a bad reputation when it comes to saying things in the past that has come back as negativity years later, but one of the most controversial things that he has spoken out about has been the denial of climate change. In an article out of Fortune by Grace Dobush, she quotes Trump as he says that “It’ll change back again.” “Trump Declares Climate Change to Be No Big Deal.”
This in fact, is very seriously a reality that our now President of the United States has denied and here we are, years later, with our world paying the consequences of our administration refusing to take initiative. Donald Trump has been guilty of his past coming back to haunt him for many years, specifically over social media, and as his name rapidly becomes more powerful, so do his comments. In the Chicago Sun Times, Jesse Jackson takes a firm stand saying that “by enforcing climate change denial, Trump puts us all in peril.” Years ago, the reality was that things were starting to take a change for the worse, and intead of taking the positive steps to avoiding that change, we had people with a powerful name, like Donald Trump, who denied the reality.
