"The richer get richer and the poorer get poorer. The world that we people live in is plagued with numerous evils. At an early age, children are taught to follow righteous morals People tend to lie, cheat, and deceive others only to benefit themselves. At the root of many perils, lies greed. The human race is naturally known to be greedy and envious of each other. Societies all around the world are competing with one another to be better, richer, stronger, wealthier, and more affluent than its neighboring countries. The same concept can be reduced to a smaller perspective between individuals and how greed can cause individuals to completely change and become selfish and egotistical, only wanting to aspire for a personal gain. Greed consumes the goodness of innocent hearts. It is necessary to find a realization of our faults, a desire to battle temptation and a strong will to fight off greed.
Greed is an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth. Bilbo Baggins, the heroic and audacious hobbit in The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien, finds himself with the responsibility of guarding over a magical ring that possesses unlimited powers. The ring, although held awesome powers, strong enough to conquer the entire Middle Earth, the mythical realm of where the novel takes place; the ring is a double-edge sword. The ring attracts all those around it. The force of the ring turns all those good at heart, and tears open they"re greatest inner desires and turns them against they"re own will and all those around them. They stop at nothing until they possess the ring; they would battle to they"re deaths as did one of the protagonists in the novel. Many other evil villains are after the ancient ring, and Bilbo Baggins is destined to destroy it by throwing it back into the pit of molten lava where it was created. Greed, personal satisfaction, envy, and jealousy contribute to the tribulations humans must subconsciously battle in all of they"re lifetime, and the constant battle against temptation is never ending.