Forgiveness Essay

The act of revenge means to avenge oneself or another by retaliating in kind or degree. Many people seek revenge for a variety of different reasons. While some situations warrant vengeance, other times it is unnecessary or goes too far. Every person is not the same, so it varies from person to person what initiates the desire for revenge. In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, Fortunato wrongs his friend Montresor, the protagonist. Although what Fortunato does is unknown, Montresor…

There is recurrent evidence which suggests that well-designed prison-based cognitive behavioural programs do reduce sexual offending or psychological risk factors associated with sexual offending. For example, O’Reilly and associates (2010) undertook a control evaluation of the Prison Service Sexual Offender Intervention Program, a 10-month manualised CBT program. Results for 38 offenders of the program were compared to 38 untreated offenders; all offenders were matched on similar…

If you are walking down the street you should stop and ask people what they consider unforgiveable. If you are like me, you will be fascinated by the answers you get. Their answers will be as varied as the people who give them. I myself have a list of unforgiveable actions which, while being small, will immediately cause me to lose respect for the individual performing said action. The thing that jumps to the forefront of my thoughts is the sin of lethargy. I use the term ‘sin’ because that…

Shakespeare’s sonnet 110 describes the importance of true love, from a perspective of a person who lost love. The poem is written with iambic pentameter with regretful, yet repentant tone. Along with the shift of the focus, Shakespeare uses melancholic diction, juxtaposition, and connotation to effectively emphasize the regret of letting go of the true love, although it is too late. In the first quatrain, Shakespeare carefully picks words with negative connotation to create the remorseful tone…

Almost every person on earth has committed a wrong act and tried to get away with it; the end result often differing between them actually getting away with it or not. However, one of the most important parts to getting away with an act, is to remain calm throughout the entire ordeal. In a tense situation, one's emotions can get out of hand if they are not carefully controlled. In the short story “Lamb To The Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney deals with this exact scenario. After her…

If told that “There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 2004 pg.2), how far would one go to redeem their past and start anew? Amir and P.T. Barnum have to answer this question and try to redeem their mistakes and hopefully save their future. Aristotle's Literary Theory will help prove that redemption can be hard and some may appear impossible, but with the right mindset and great support, anything is possible. To have needed redemption the characters must have had to fall from grace. In the…

Having an intense feeling of deep affection towards a partner, defines love. Though, that love will soon become nothing but memories. This Is How You lose Her by Junot Diaz and The Lovers Dictionary by David Levithan are both novels where the narrator has a love and hate relationship with their partner. Yunior and Leviathans narrator in the novels, agree and disagree with their perspective in relationships. Both agree relationships do hit tough times, with the narrators putting in the most…

Someone who I Apologized to was my friend John.To begin with showing Apology towards someone means your sorry for what you did wrong.apology also means showing acknowledgment to a regretful failure. It's important because it's the right and mature thing to do if your in the wrong. Apologizing to someone is important also because it makes the other person feel better. When I know i did something wrong I always say sorry and apologize to the person about what I did wrong and it makes me feel…

The definition of compassion is to have sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. It is to have pity, love, mercy, and sensitivity for others. Compassion is a quality that the world needs to survive without heading in a direction of hate and war. Without compassion the people of the world would destroy each other everywhere. Life is sometimes cruel and short lived and for people to show and have compassion makes the world a less destructive place. “The purpose of…

self-forgiveness has a little empirical or conceptual scholarship as compared to interpersonal forgiveness where continuous research is being incorporated. However, a theoretical model has come in handy while describing some of the processes that are utilized in self-forgiveness and this is based on the perpetration of the interpersonal transgression (Hall & Fincham, 2005). Some of these determinants include the social-cognitive, proposed emotional and offense-related ones. Self-forgiveness…