Disgrace

In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,” The speaker explores feelings of jealousy, disdain, loneliness, and true love. Particularly the power that a person’s love can have on it’s recipient. The speaker has a swift change of heart upon thinking of love, improving the tone of the sonnet. This leaves the impression that the simple thought of love, whether past or current, is enough to lift even the gloomiest of attitudes. In the sonnet, the speaker’s tone is…

In “Good Country People,” O’Connor portrays Hulga as a know-it-all that seems to, in the end, know nothing. She wants to get into trouble with the Bible salesman and disgrace his supposed purity. In her attempt to disgrace Pointer, she suffers disgrace. In “Greenleaf,” Mrs. May’s controlling nature leads her to be deprived of control in the end. By trying to control the Greenleaf Bull, she ends up dead by its horns. Mrs. May’s control over her sons, the bull…

kills himself and his family because of the shame he feels from the failure of the business (Ishiguro 568-570). Using Watanabe’s story, Ishiguro proposes how hazardous and influential humiliation can be. The author continues to emphasize the topic of disgrace and despair through the father of the story. Towards the beginning of the story, the father states twice that Watanabe is a “man of principle” (Ishiguro 568). By stating that, he believes Watanabe was a man with upright morals and…

Hidden thorns from within one's core do not easily display themselves. Shirley Jackson tells the story of “The Possibility of Evil” depicting a disgrace in behavior, in a seemingly innocent individual. This role is played by (Adela Strangeworth) as the main character, she seems to have a pure morality with her prideful household. Going through the story with her ordinary daily routine, the audience begins to realise that this woman is oblivious to her own sinister habits. This leads one to…

Son of a Corsican newspaper tycoon, Napoleon, a self-proclaimed “artist,” was a disgrace to his father who had long dreamed for his son to give up the paint and join the family business. Naturally, after he came of age, Napoleon exiled himself from his family and went to Russia, where he had heard rumors of a famous artist hosting art lessons on abstract art. However, only after two days of beginning the classes, Napoleon began degrading other students, sometimes even purposely sabotaging their…

that according to Titus, Lavinia will never be able to survive the shame of being raped for the remainder of her life (5.3.46-47). However, it further shows Titus’ motivation and desire to protect his own reputation, to not have a daughter who will disgrace the…

Plagiarism: An Act that Brings both Acceptance and Exclusion Two lines in “When In Disgrace With Fortune” of Tobias Wolff’s Old School illustrate how acceptance and belonging can be stripped of a person the moment he commits a dishonorable act. The protagonist in Old School plagiarizes a girl’s story and thus dishonorably leaves his elite boarding school. His status in school varies greatly as he first receives the prize and is later asked to leave, in addition to losing his scholarship to…

fear trivial things. Similarly to Plato, Aristotle believes some fears are legitimate while others may not be. He, however, elaborates on what is worthy of fear. Disgrace is worthy because “he who fears this is a good man and has a sense of honour.”A person’s reputation is, for the most part, within his or her control, meaning disgrace would be a direct product of their actions. Trivial pieces of life such as poverty and disease should not be feared because they are not “attributable to his own…

person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.”p.177 As Huck states that he does not want to take any consequences, it tells the reader he has done something wrong. Huck also states in the next sentence that he thinks as long as he can hide something as something not worthy of disgrace, reminiscent of the way people think about their own imperfections. By connecting this way to the reader, Mark Twain…

The article “British Surgeon Describes the Treatment of Slaves during the Middle Passage (Excerpts),” is an article of excerpts from a first-person account book, An Account of The African Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788) by Alexander Falconbridge, thus making it a reliable source for the described time period of transatlantic slave trade. There is no better individual to recount on this information, besides a slave themselves. Falconbridge was a surgeon on the traveling slave ships and…