“To Be The Light”: The Significance of Faith in Station Eleven  Alessandra Broce College

Humans are social beings. It is because of this that we, as a species, have survived for so long. But, what happens when an event causes confusion to many people? When the curiosity of the unknown cannot be satisfied by knowledge of one or another known event, by knowledge of one or another exigency, or by discovering the causes behind one or another phenomenon? To put it shortly, we are curious to understand the world, and not just a fragment thereof. Whenever human beings face extreme bewilderment, they begin to break down mentally, exhibit odd behavior, and, in the case of the faithful, look toward a higher being for answers. Others include anger and pain, the rejection of the world as it is. The world—not this or that fragment of the world, this or that situation, this or that fact as it is—hurts and outrages us, corrodes. Bringing some piece of reality to order—controlling the sea that has, until now, regularly devastated the neighboring town, freeing oneself from political oppression, or oppression of any kind, or finding a treatment for a heretofore terminable illness—does nothing to relieve this kind of pain. For the faithful, only a person who is expected to save people from a very bad situation could free us from...