"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."
-George Edward Moore

District Assessment

Author's note: This is my response to the piece we had to read on the man that served the king by hunting birds. I took the piece as an example of how we defer morals.

Morality and insanity are just a short length away from each other.  Morality is just another way of viewing reality, in which case reality can be classified as insanity. These morals and laws of common sense we lay out are for the sack of building a safe reality in which everyone can thrive, but not necessarily live. This is wrong and that is right, no questions asked, is what it has always been. Not many have thought to defy what we view as a society is correct or not, and those who have, end up tied up mentally and physically. There are those that completely lack these rules, though, with no self judgment. Not of their own doing, either. Personal realities are created for themselves, where in their story they are the heroes and conquerors of whatever task they have been sent to this world to fulfill. In actuality they are harming others as long with them.
Some start off as what we refer to as “normality” and slowly turn into these ravenous kinds of people. A conflict of such a stature, one that they most likely have never been dealt with before, arises and drives them to the point of breaking. In a forest located in old England man named Hugh, a pleasant man of course, was never married nor in love. His only passion was the birds he caught and handled for his highness. Then his king introduces him to his wife-to-be, and this simple thing of a man seems to fall in love, just as the king said he all those who gaze upon her did. Jealousy slowly turns into insanity. As the king tells him his task at hand for their grand wedding, Hugh conjugates this plan to lure her. Every day he catches these birds, and on the final day he finds her, the Queen, and kidnaps her. She promises him riches and even offers herself to him if he would just let her go, overwhelmed with feelings of hate when he sees her ring he kills her and takes it for himself. Tearing off his badge is a symbol of distress and no longer being part of what he once was. Later he leaves the village and thrives on his own.
In his mind everything works differently though. He is the hero, ridding them of this evil bird creature. That his loyalty to the kingdom makes him strong, when all he was doing was being selfish to himself by ridding his cause of anguish. When our truest emotions start to thrive in our thoughts, they consume our actions and become our reality. The point of insanity is when you no longer are aware if this is who you even are as a person.