HUM 340 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bicycle Thieves, The Foreshadowing, Main Source

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUM 340
• Professor: Emily O'Brien

Document Summary

Greed is defined as the obsession or innate desire of something, and it can take the form of many things. It is our human nature to feel greed and desire so strongly something that we do not currently have, but in certain cases this feeling of greed is taken too far. Greed can be distinguished from jealousy or envy in that it is not a passive emotion; greed makes one act blindly without thinking of consequences. Greed is a failure of foresight and consideration. In the short story the baby by albert moravia, greed took the form of a better life, higher social status, and more wealth. In the terror of rome, greed was manifested in a pair of boots and other material goods. In bicycle thieves, greed was represented in a bicycle, but it also was a symbol for other factors.