An Analysis of Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace Essay

In the essay, Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace, a point about morality with regards to animal abuse is brought up. Much like minorities in America, lobsters are considered to be the lowest tier of the animal society. The main point about the essay is to alert people about the issues of torturing animals just for the sake of our humanistic pleasure. What is socially acceptable as normal behavior is not always the most ethical or moral behavior. At the beginning of the essay the author describes an annual tradition in Maine, the Lobster Festival. The festival is self explanatory in that people from all over the area gather to indulge in immense amounts of lobsters. While this part of the festival is rudimentary, a second part about the festival raises the need for concern. A cook comes to the festival and literally boils lobsters live in front of the entire audience. Its easy to shrug off because its just a lobster, right? Wallace even says what lobsters are by definition. A crustacean is an aquatic arthropod of the class Crustacea, which comprises crabs, shrimp, barnacles, lobsters, and freshwater crayfish. The point is that lobsters are basically giant sea insectsnot nice to look at. Theyll eat some live shellfish, certain kinds of injured fish, and sometimes one another. (Wallace 237.) The main point about that quote is that unlike dogs or cats that serve as typical house pets, lobsters do little to nothing to help contribute in any way other than as food. People are so quick to immediately defend the murdering of animals to eat, but a majority of Americans fail to see the moral issues with killing animals. Human beings are undeniably on the top of the food chain and eating other species is something that is normal in modern American society, but it has also been scientifically proven that human beings do not require meat to survive. The main issue...

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