Integrity In 'The Lady Of Shalott'

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Integrity is considered to be the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Wistfully, 59% of high school students admitted cheating on a test during the last year. Such impressive information contributes to the fact that now a days children don’t respect life. In this society were teachers try to do their best in educating the future of our country, it is at home were the big problem starts.
Reluctantly, such integral values must be portrayed by society as they were in “The Lady of Shalott” a true historic ballad. The mirror that the Lady of Shallot uses to view what is outside of the tower represents how people can view things with an altered sense of reality. The lady could only view the outside world

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