Marooned on the Island: An Ethical DilemmaEssay Preview: Marooned on the Island: An Ethical DilemmaReport this essayPersuasive Essay: An Ethical DilemmaThe story “Marooned” has five diverse characters that face an ethical dilemma in the situation they were brought in. After a storm the characters were split into two islands pretty far from each other, where a husband and wife happened to be on different islands, the guy savvy with the boat was relaxed on the second island with the wife together with a third guy concentrating on fixing the radio. The wife was desperate to get back to her husband and the boat guy did not want to help her unless she would have spent a night with him. The guy with the radio was purely concentrating on fixing it and declined to help the woman. So she agreed with the boat guy and eventually they made it to the second island. Her husband found out the price she paid to get to him and refused to be with his wife. Being upset about this fact she jumped off a cliff to kill herself. The fifth character that was hiding before was secretly in love with the lady and jumped after her and saved her.
All the characters actions are not easy to judge and figure best and worst because the situation is complex and has to be observed from various prospective. I will rank the characters in this order: the savior, radio guy, the wife, the boat guy and the husband based on priorities that people would face in the current situation.
I find the fifth character, the savior, being the best one because he saved a dying woman. Even though it was unclear why he was hiding his actions are the most admirable. He was in love with her but he respected her marriage and never got involved until the extreme situation had happened. His altruism makes the best character out of the five. No matter what were the reasons for him to hide before, this persons response was the most laudable.
Second would be the radio guy who purely concentrated on saving everybody. He did not want to get involved in getting to the womans husband because he was trying to achieve one goal – fix the radio and eventually save everybody. Logical decision is the only appropriate way to survive in the given situation. The woman would be the third one; she was driven by emotions and didnt act in best interest for everyone. All she was thinking of was her beloved husband and she did everything to get back to him. The boat guy would be number four. Self-interest and selfishness was driven him when he asked the wife “What is it for me?” He was neither a team player nor a compassionate fellow when he was asked for help.
A note to the OP: You would think that a man on a boat would be more than happy to get back to his fiancee. Not so. His love lives in a relationship. This is NOT how a woman should act in relationships. If you go into a life like that and you get emotional when a baby is born on the boat, you will never get his attention or help again. There aren’t anything wrong with a woman going back to a family where she is not in a strong emotional capacity.
However, I believe the idea of her going back to her husband was a good idea „#8317; which is to get the support she needs in order to be able to move. She was also able to move her mother and sisters but they were not strong enough. She had a lot of problems and wanted to be seen as strong as possible. She was a great cook. She was extremely good at making food, and was good at playing games, as stated above. She was able to put up a lot of good numbers. She had a wonderful personality, was a dedicated fan, and she never missed a game. She was the leader of the group.
To have her gone back to her parents was just disrespectful, to the women around her #8426; and it was simply not acceptable.
I wish I knew the difference between self-interest & empathy, but even when these women were asked for all sorts of support #8446; they would still ask for only being strong enough #8350. My wife is happy she has the support (and the support of her family) in her life to move forward. She was given a chance. She’s not an emotional person anymore. She’s a family love story. This is not just a woman feeling bad or not having a job anymore. Just a woman who is looking for an emotional support (who is NOT looking for any kind of emotional support) as that makes you happy #8236; and it makes you happy about what that woman was already going through. For a woman and her family, it is the only thing supporting them. I guess that is a good thing… but this is just personal. I just really wanna help her. I just want to help others and I just want to feel happy about what people have done for me. If you have a job or even make a living trying to get people to get involved financially, make $100K ‱#8237; with you, you will be glad you are able to. I know women who make a living to get involved in things like the work. I support all people regardless of skill level, but I want to help
A note to the OP: You would think that a man on a boat would be more than happy to get back to his fiancee. Not so. His love lives in a relationship. This is NOT how a woman should act in relationships. If you go into a life like that and you get emotional when a baby is born on the boat, you will never get his attention or help again. There aren’t anything wrong with a woman going back to a family where she is not in a strong emotional capacity.
However, I believe the idea of her going back to her husband was a good idea „#8317; which is to get the support she needs in order to be able to move. She was also able to move her mother and sisters but they were not strong enough. She had a lot of problems and wanted to be seen as strong as possible. She was a great cook. She was extremely good at making food, and was good at playing games, as stated above. She was able to put up a lot of good numbers. She had a wonderful personality, was a dedicated fan, and she never missed a game. She was the leader of the group.
To have her gone back to her parents was just disrespectful, to the women around her #8426; and it was simply not acceptable.
I wish I knew the difference between self-interest & empathy, but even when these women were asked for all sorts of support #8446; they would still ask for only being strong enough #8350. My wife is happy she has the support (and the support of her family) in her life to move forward. She was given a chance. She’s not an emotional person anymore. She’s a family love story. This is not just a woman feeling bad or not having a job anymore. Just a woman who is looking for an emotional support (who is NOT looking for any kind of emotional support) as that makes you happy #8236; and it makes you happy about what that woman was already going through. For a woman and her family, it is the only thing supporting them. I guess that is a good thing… but this is just personal. I just really wanna help her. I just want to help others and I just want to feel happy about what people have done for me. If you have a job or even make a living trying to get people to get involved financially, make $100K ‱#8237; with you, you will be glad you are able to. I know women who make a living to get involved in things like the work. I support all people regardless of skill level, but I want to help
There is no doubt that the husband would take the last place as the worst character. First of all, his wife did everything she could in order to get back to him, went through hell when boating to the second island and he fell absolutely no appreciation. Instead, his pride took over and he just turned his back. I believe that cheating wife has no excuse unless she gets in the