Do Changes Come From Inside Or Outside?

Although people are afraid of the unknown, they are bound to change sometime in life. Although outside pressure can change people's behaviors, motivations for changes come from inside.

Although outside pressure may modify one's behavior, it cannot change one's nature. For example, in Shakespeare's the Tempest, the island's native Caliban attempts to rape Prospero's daughter, Miranda., Since then, Caliban has been enslaved by Prospero; Caliban is forced to perform all the hard labor, and when he curses Prospero calls upon his spirits to pinch Caliban. After being punished by Prospero, Caliban does not dare to touch Miranda ever again; nonetheless, he is still the same evil person he once was. He has no remorse for his violation of Miranda, saying that if he hadn't have been stopped he would have peopled the island with a race of calibans.; he even convinces Trinculo and Stephano to plot against his master, Prospero, when Prospero is not keeping an eye on him. Although Caliban summit to Prospero's power, his evil nature does not change.

As the example of Caliban demonstrates, pressures cannot change a person. Instead, People are motivated to change from inside. In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the young Marianne Dashwood falls in love with the dashing Willoughby. Willoughby eventually abandons Marianne for the rich Ms. Grey, leaving Marianne devastated and heart-broken. Although Marianne is painfully hurt by Willoughby, her failed relationship also prompts her to reflect on her behaviors and recognize her selfishness, causing her to change the way she sees and treats people who care about her for the better. The pain that motivate people to change is not limited to the feeling of hurtfulness, like the one that Marianne experiences. For example, the pain Americans experienced at the gas pumps when the gasoline prices top the roof has motivated many of them to start buying smaller, fuel-efficient