Guilt

The Real Meanings of the Scarlet Letter Many people are labeled and publicly judge by things they do. Others live with a hidden guilt. This is what happens in “The Scarlet Letter”, with Hester and Dimmesdale. Hester’s letter represents adultery but eventually it represents her change and what she is able to do. Dimmesdale’s letter isn’t visible but he does carry his own letter and he accepts it. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester’s letter represents adultery and sin. Marcus, Fred H…

Macbeth to do whatever he needs to do to seize the crown and become the king of Scotland. Macbeth finally kills the Scottish king Duncan and becomes the king of Scotland. His ambition to have more power made him commit an inhumane crime. His ambition, guilt and fear makes him commit more inhumane crimes to cover up…

Writers often tell two stories when writing one. It’s natural habit. Often there is an ulterior motive when writers use such a technique but, sometimes, there is not. This “two-story telling,” without any ulterior motive takes place in “Maus” by Art Spiegelman where Vladek, Art’s father, recounts the story of the ghastly holocaust and how this relationship effects both of them. Even though Spiegelman doesn’t outright say that the story is also about his relationship with his father, it is…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” there is an apparent message sent throughout the text: Secret sin of any one person has the ability to eat away at him or her, causing an overwhelming sense of guilt that can control and overtake his or her life; but can also become a necessary evil and a positive good at the same time. The image of secret sin that captivates Parson Hooper isolates his relationships from his congregation, Elizabeth, and God. In “The Minster’s Black Veil,”…

response to the rising guilt. Later, certain aspects of the story suggest that the doppelganger may not be an entirely well-intentioned figure. For example, although the narrator is hereditarily prone to moral weakness, the constant presence of his double does not have the effect of mitigating the narrator's temperament. Instead, it gives the narrator his first lesson in what it means to “partook very much of positive hatred” (673). In the same way that the narrator sins yet feels guilt, the…

feel that way now. She feels how Macbeth did, that nothing will wash away the wrong doing that they have done. With that being said the spirits didn’t give Lady Macbeth her wish. If they did she wouldn’t be feeling the guilt that she is for killing King Duncan. Most of the fear and guilt come from trying to hide from it in the first place. By trying to hide and thinking about not thinking about their wrong doing she made things worse for herself. After the death of Lady Macbeth, it’s hard to…

their relationships. O’Brien addressed shame and storytelling and memory for the people that don’t know about what really happens in war. The chapter, “ In The Field,” readers can see the soldiers all carried shame and guilt. The chapter is talking about how three men managed their guilt over…

Silence Guilt is a universal human experience. Stealing food from other family members, telling a white lie, forgetting a close friend’s birthday, cheating on your significant other - these are examples of situations that cause guilt to different degrees. The varying intensity of guilt dictates how one allows their action to effect them. In some cases, guilt hardly has an affect on an individual, while in others it can crush a person. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, guilt looms…

preface and situation for Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. Through the use of his character John Proctor, Miller is able to demonstrate how crippling the effects of guilt, reputation and lies can be to both a single person and an entire society. However, Miller also uses this character to illustrate how weakness turns to strength, guilt turns to forgiveness, and goodness can be reclaimed after being lost to transgression.…

The Scarlet Letter is a very well known book written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In The Scarlet Letter two of the main characters, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale become victims of punishment. They both suffer the punishment imposed upon them by others as well as self-imposed punishment. Hester Prynne is the victim of both types of punishment given to her by her community and the punishment she imposes on herself. After Hester is discovered to have committed the act of adultery, she is…