Conscience as Voice of God Essay

But she was a damn liar. “Me?” Sarah scoffed at the handsome neighbor, watching her with wolfish intensity over the rim of his wineglass. “I’m an open book. Just a widow looking to make a fresh start in a familiar place. Nothing to hide here.” Her voice only shook a little. “Indeed.” Eric’s tone, and the way his gaze pierced her, spoke volumes. He smiled again. There was a pregnant pause. Thunder rattled the rafters overhead. Her ears popped and the moment passed, fading like his smile in the…

In both the twenty-first century and in the seventeenth century upholding values and reputations, despite society’s pressure, has aways been extremely difficult. Imagine one day being a normal citizen, and the next day being accused of witchcraft. Imagine one day being a normal high school student, and the next day being diagnosed with some unknown odd disease. Values and reputations can be sullied at any instant if they go against popular opinion. Upholding values of courage, perseverance, and…

In Act 2, scene 2, Claudius invites Hamlet’s childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to come to Elsinore because of his apparent concern about “Hamlet’s transformation,” that he may be going mad due to his father’s death and another source (II.ii.5). Hamlet reveals to his friends that he is in a state of despair because of the events concerning his father. Soon, Hamlet’s situation changes from despair and uncertainty finally to what seems to be a plan in progress. His friends announce to…

stand up for anything.” Rahim Khan, however, sides with Amir and encourages him in his writing. He willingly plays the role of a mother figure in the young man’s life, encouraging, comforting, and balancing Baba’s harshness. He also acts as Amir’s conscience throughout the movie, urging him to confess, to make things…

makes it apparent that he had discussed his misgivings about the Ghost with Horatio” (Reed 180). Reed goes on to discuss how much Hamlet respects Horatio; their relationship is one of the only things that tied Hamlet to reality. Horatio is Hamlet’s voice of reason in act one, scene four, when Horatio tries to convince him that he should not go and talk to the ghost alone because he doesn’t want anything bad to happen to Hamlet. Even though he was unsuccessful in keeping Hamlet from going with…

Many philosophers have contemplated on the freedoms that men should naturally have simply for being human. Among those are the right to self-preserve and the right to equality. Along with these freedoms believed by a handful of philosophers to be God-given rights, complementary government hierarchies are set up for the good of the people and also to protect these freedoms. Without the government systems, humans would spiral into chaos and disorder; this is why it is necessary to have a…

depicted a dystopian society, where rebellions are quashed instantly once spotted and voices of dissents are intolerable. We’ve been introduced to peculiar terms like thought crime. Ingsoc surveils its party members through a device called telescreen. Not so difficult when everyone’s under surveillance everywhere they are. Part One Reflections about my emotional feelings through my reading. First of all, I want to thank god that the dystopian future the writer imagined in 1949 didn’t happen.…

painfully apparent that Tsar Nicholas II was not fit to be head of state, especially not in a time of war. Instead of analytically reviewing his own military power and comparing it to that of his enemy, he placed his fate “more based on his belief in God than on confidence in” his military personal and their predictions for how battles would unfold . Despite the confidence that the ruler felt in his men, the actuality of the situation was that Japanese forces were far more equipped and capable…

depression and with no one to talk about his feelings he is left alone in his greiff. “ Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,/ Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd/ His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God! /How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (Shakespeare 1.2.130-134). This quote from hamlet shows how depressed he was, it says that he would take his live if it wasn’t against God's law. This…

No matter how far Jim tries to runaway, Jim remains unfree. Initially when Jim and Huck attempt to runaway, Jim voices that he specifically wants a “raff” because “it doan’ make no track.” No matter where Jim goes throughout the novel, he will remain unfree unless he is able to make it to Cairo. Cairo is Jim’s promised land where he can truly be free from the chains of slavery. In order to get there, he has to avoid all the people who are a potential threat to his freedom. He understands the…