“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.” This is a quote from Caribbean-American writer Audre Lorde. Many people express their opinion on guilt, but having written over 20 books, she is a very well-educated individual on such a matter. Another successful and commendable person is the philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Nietzsche is the philosopher that came up with the love, guilt, and redemption philosophy. In this philosophy, Nietzsche believes that the amount of “guilt and debt, the act of giving (of love or money) must never overwhelm the receiver” (Cybulska). This is also the reason why Nietzsche rejected the Christian doctrine.
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In The Antichrist, “Jesus is portrayed as a rebel who stood against the Jewish establishment” (Cybulska) and so he died for his guilt. This was highly controversial to Christianity and its followers. Nietzsche’s idea of love, guilt, and redemption is that they should all balance out and minimally influence each other. Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky includes the relationship between guilt, murder, and other criminal acts in his book, Crime and Punishment. In his love, guilt, and redemption philosophy, Nietzsche says that guilt is associated heavily with criminal acts, just like Dostoevsky. Playwright Eugene O’Neill reads what Dostoevsky and Nietzsche have to say and include them in his play The Iceman Cometh. He resembles the feeling of guilt with Parritt’s mother and Hickey’s wife. In Macbeth and Othello guilt is a very obvious factor in the story and influences many characters’ decisions in the wrong way. Guilt can and will affect characters in multiple ways, making them unlike their usual …show more content…
Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both have their untimely displays of guilt during the play. However, these characters, despite being very close to each other, expressed their feelings of guilt at different instances. Katelyn Wood shows in her Ted-ED video that in Act Two of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth to dispose of Duncan, saying that his manhood would be questionable had he not done this deed. After Macbeth returns to Lady Macbeth from killing Duncan, he is met with questionable thoughts racing through his mind as the feeling of guilt surges through his veins, changing his character completely. Eventually, these thoughts cease and Macbeth’s character changes dramatically as this one murder turns him into a serial killer as he tries to take destroy those around him. While Macbeth is chipping away at his guilt and becoming a more powerful individual, Lady Macbeth is falling victim to this shared enemy. “Lady Macbeth then talks to her husband about the guilt they might have later on” (UKEssays). As time goes on, Lady Macbeth begins to get overwhelmed by feeling of guilt, has sleepwalking nightmares, and tries to rinse the unwashable blood from her hands with no success. These
One paramount point of information about the Christian …show more content…
In The Antichrist, “Jesus is portrayed as a rebel who stood against the Jewish establishment” (Cybulska) and so he died for his guilt. This was highly controversial to Christianity and its followers. Nietzsche’s idea of love, guilt, and redemption is that they should all balance out and minimally influence each other. Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky includes the relationship between guilt, murder, and other criminal acts in his book, Crime and Punishment. In his love, guilt, and redemption philosophy, Nietzsche says that guilt is associated heavily with criminal acts, just like Dostoevsky. Playwright Eugene O’Neill reads what Dostoevsky and Nietzsche have to say and include them in his play The Iceman Cometh. He resembles the feeling of guilt with Parritt’s mother and Hickey’s wife. In Macbeth and Othello guilt is a very obvious factor in the story and influences many characters’ decisions in the wrong way. Guilt can and will affect characters in multiple ways, making them unlike their usual …show more content…
Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both have their untimely displays of guilt during the play. However, these characters, despite being very close to each other, expressed their feelings of guilt at different instances. Katelyn Wood shows in her Ted-ED video that in Act Two of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth influenced Macbeth to dispose of Duncan, saying that his manhood would be questionable had he not done this deed. After Macbeth returns to Lady Macbeth from killing Duncan, he is met with questionable thoughts racing through his mind as the feeling of guilt surges through his veins, changing his character completely. Eventually, these thoughts cease and Macbeth’s character changes dramatically as this one murder turns him into a serial killer as he tries to take destroy those around him. While Macbeth is chipping away at his guilt and becoming a more powerful individual, Lady Macbeth is falling victim to this shared enemy. “Lady Macbeth then talks to her husband about the guilt they might have later on” (UKEssays). As time goes on, Lady Macbeth begins to get overwhelmed by feeling of guilt, has sleepwalking nightmares, and tries to rinse the unwashable blood from her hands with no success. These