Write an essay on the topic 'State and Citizen'?
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The relationship between the citizen and the state is that both are interdependent to each other. Without the citizen, the state wouldn't be capable of laws; laws in which the citizen will denounce and/or praise. Citizens are only citizens until they acquire political power.
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“What is the relationship between the citizen and the state?” We are not citizens but subjects, being subjected to the ruling of one power. We claim that we despise the government and that the government is out to get us, but if you think of what our society would be without a government we would be in total chaos. Sometimes we try to free ourselves from the state, and run, just as Tim O’Brien did in “On the Rainy River.” O’Brien didn’t want to be drafted out to a war in which he didn’t believe in, so instead he dropped his life and ran away; just ran away from facing the government. "My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was …show more content…
was nearly pacifistic. Jamaica Kincaid in ‘Upon seeing England for the First Time’ also claims that not her government but her views on the country itself have been just as hypocritical. She was raised in Antigua with the views of England being the most prosperous and flourishing of beauty place in the world. However, after maturing and having the mindset that England was a dream, she finally had her chance to visit her fantasy. England turned to be not a dream world but a nightmare; it didn’t live up to any of the expectations she’d had. It was all but the opposite. “That the idea of something and its reality are often two completely different things is something no one ever remembers; and so when they meet and find that they are not compatible, the weaker of the two, idea or reality, dies.” (Kincaid pg.909) The citizens of England were no different from the state. Citizens, or people, without rules and laws would lead to total anarchy. Though who is to say that anarchy wouldn’t be profitable for our country (if it is a country at all)? Without laws to follow, laws can’t be broken. If everyone were to fend for themselves and do as they please, there wouldn’t be a need for control. We need order to guide us, but there is no need for complete control. We may be inclined to the government but without the government there wouldn’t be a regulatory economy and without an economy we strive for our own good. ‘That we aren’t a people of a nation, but a citizen of the state.
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