Conscience

was not involved with the Holocaust in any way, the whole ordeal seems to have an affect on his life. What kind of guilt is lingering over Art Spiegelman? As readers of Maus, it’s clear that there are at least three speculations for Art’s guilty conscience. We can see this thorough out the story with the though-provoking material provided to us…

which will later on plague their conscience with guilt. The motif of sleep materializes throughout the play and communicates the guilt of each character as their ambition drives them to abandon their morals. There are many motifs used within Macbeth, such as sleep, blood, hands and night. Each of these words are reoccurring throughout the play and help to reveal many aspects of each character and their current state of mind. The motif of sleep represents the conscience of each character, and…

As a human being, it must be hard to avoid your conscience in the middle of an immoral situation. Transferring the guilt and responsibility to somewhere else, especially a higher authority or organization that controls your duty would reduce or even eliminates your guilt feeling. This explains why a human…

occurred in his life. Yet shortly after he came back to reality he regressed and started acting out his fantasy again. His conscience isn’t strong enough to pull him back to the real world or keep himself there. Having a conscience is important to be able to live in the real world. Conscience allows one to be able to recognize right from wrong. If one does not have a conscience and is not able to understand right from wrong they begin to live in their own fantasy world. Even though Jazz…

In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe a man’s guilty conscience plummets his mind into madness, murder, and eventual confession. A psychopath becomes mentally unstable, as he begins to obsess over his master’s pale blue eye. Furthermore, the psychopath comes to believe that the eye is…

people are likely to follow orders given by a person of authority even to the extent of killing another because obedience to authority is ingrained in us all from the way we are brought up. This experiment forced participant to either violate their conscience by obeying immoral demands or not. Milgram’s experiment recruited forty males to take part in the study of “learning” with a total of six hundred thirty-six participants in eighteen separate tests. The participants actually believed they…

Controlling Conscience People’s conscience’s guide their actions, behaviors, and decisions on a daily basis, but is a person’s conscience powerful enough to determine whether they will live or die? Shakespeare would argue that it is. According to his writing, he would even go as far as implying that a person’s conscience is the reason that one might choose to kill himself. Two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Hamlet and Macbeth, are prime examples of how a character’s guilty conscience,…

The innocent creature from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein just might not be as innocent or sane as one might think. The creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is without a doubt a psychopath or even a sociopath when looking at the details in his lifestyle, and the violent acts he committed throughout the novel. Furthermore, when analyzing the creature from the novel it demonstrates multiple psychopathic and sociopathic qualities, such as something like his impulsive behavior or how aggressive, it…

One of the most famous studies in psychology was done by Stanley Milgram (theatlantic.com). In 1961, Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, created an experiment to study obedience (simplypsychology.org). The experiment showed “that most people will hurt their fellows rather than disobey authority,” as said in Milgram’s words (harpercollins.com). The same experiment was performed again for television in 2007 that yielded close results. Could people really be capable of hurting others if…

Even when Hester Prynne was publicly shamed on the scaffold, she refused to name her lover’s name. This secret of the lover’s name affected Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale greatly, although he was involved in the secret, Dimmesdale could not deal with the guilt he was feeling and his health started to deteriorate, “His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his…