Why Feel Guilty for Cheating? Part 1: If I were in the situation that my friends and I cheated, and one friend takes the blame for everything, I would feel very guilty. I would feel guilty, for everyone cheated, and yet one friend is the only one getting in trouble. I would feel guilty when getting the exam from my friends, when I take the exam, and when the friend gets the blame, because though I can get a better grade on the exam if I used the actual test to study, it would also mean that I cheated knowingly, and is not the correct way to prepare for an exam. Also, I would feel guilty just for getting a good grade by cheating. At the same time, I would feel some kind of relief, that I was not the one that the teachers caught. Though I should
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“Carefully, Mr. Justice Wargrave removed his false teeth and dropped them into a glass of water. The shrunken lips fell in. It was a cruel mouth now, cruel and predatory,” Justice Wargrave’s character is portrayed early in the novel (Christie 81). From this quote, one can assume that he is acting like a nice, smart, retired judge, but is actually cruel. On top of that, he can be very judgmental. If he does not like an idea or person, he criticizes it with harsh evaluations. He talks about Constance Culmington as undependable, and also criticizes Dr. Armstrong, “Remember him in the witness-box. Very correct and cautious. All doctors are… fools” (Christie 37). When he sees a thing that could possibly hurt him in some way, he can be very bitter. He also admits that he is cruel, “I have a definite sadistic delight in seeing or causing death.” (Christie 285) Though he is talking about killing in this case, it can be inferred that he could have had a sadistic view on other people, just in general. On the first page of the novel, he is represented as a man that likes power, and had it until recently. “In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar…” (Christie 1). Until he retired from being a judge, he had a lot of power, and is used to it, and feels that all of his actions are correct. For the cheating situation, he shows some power by trying to talk from a higher status, or try to be the one in charge, saying that he helped and didn't need the exam for studying. From these quotes his character was recreated as a crazy and cruel person who would not want extra or unwanted things that can hurt him in any shape or
“Carefully, Mr. Justice Wargrave removed his false teeth and dropped them into a glass of water. The shrunken lips fell in. It was a cruel mouth now, cruel and predatory,” Justice Wargrave’s character is portrayed early in the novel (Christie 81). From this quote, one can assume that he is acting like a nice, smart, retired judge, but is actually cruel. On top of that, he can be very judgmental. If he does not like an idea or person, he criticizes it with harsh evaluations. He talks about Constance Culmington as undependable, and also criticizes Dr. Armstrong, “Remember him in the witness-box. Very correct and cautious. All doctors are… fools” (Christie 37). When he sees a thing that could possibly hurt him in some way, he can be very bitter. He also admits that he is cruel, “I have a definite sadistic delight in seeing or causing death.” (Christie 285) Though he is talking about killing in this case, it can be inferred that he could have had a sadistic view on other people, just in general. On the first page of the novel, he is represented as a man that likes power, and had it until recently. “In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar…” (Christie 1). Until he retired from being a judge, he had a lot of power, and is used to it, and feels that all of his actions are correct. For the cheating situation, he shows some power by trying to talk from a higher status, or try to be the one in charge, saying that he helped and didn't need the exam for studying. From these quotes his character was recreated as a crazy and cruel person who would not want extra or unwanted things that can hurt him in any shape or