All 3 Uses of
hubris
in
Into the Wild
- (Jack London got it right in "To Build a Fire." McCandless is, finally, just a pale 20th-century burlesque of London's protagonist, who freezes because he ignores advice and commits big-time hubris)…… His ignorance, which could have been cured by a USGS quadrant and a Boy Scout manual, is what killed him.
p. 72.1hubris = excessive confidence
- Eighteen years after the event, I now recognize that I suffered from hubris, perhaps, and an appalling innocence, certainly; but I wasn't suicidal.
p. 155.8 *
- I bring up McCandless's hubris and the dumb mistakes he made, the two or three readily avoidable blunders that ended up costing him his life.
p. 185.6
Definition:
excessive pride, arrogance, or confidence
Hubris is especially used to indicate that one will suffer for ignoring convention.