Guilt

as selfish. Secondly, her manipulation was must assuredly intentional and without a doubt evil. The last criterion involves the content of her heart. If at her core lies evil, she deserves the title villain. Though all signs point to a villain, her guilt driven madness exposes the content of her heart as at it’s core good. This small amount of remorse disqualifies her from becoming a part of the “villain…

never commit suicide and would remain in their senses, would they not felt about their illicit actions of incest and murder respectively, but once they’ve realization of their wrong deeds, their conscience start blaming them, feeling the burden of guilt and shame. “To feel shame, one has to compare one’s behavior against standards in which one has come to believe as a result of socialization.” (Lester 352) this feeling of shame in itself is ‘self-killing’ i.e. suicide, for both the Queens, they…

be in the war, or even cared anything about the war. In all that he does as the team leader, he is very unsure, scared of what may happen with him in charge. Later, in the war, Cross faced many other obstacles, such as deaths, that led to shame and guilt, forming PTSD in his mind. Cross can be viewed as a Christ like figure. Christ took on the sin of the world upon his shoulders, in order to save everyone in it. “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He…

Introduction Have you ever imagined living without your mother in your childhood? In the article “Perspective n Fear of Abandonment Cases, Effects and Options” by Peter K. Gerlach. He suggests that the abandonment can be psychological and there are many kinds of impacts on children. The book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is about a thirteen years old girl who suffers in the effect of abandonment. There are three kind of emotion the main character Sal has experience. First, Sal was pretty…

What makes a person cold hearted? The answer to that question may vary, but when it comes to serial killers, they tend to be heartless. Serial killers tend to be cold hearted because they do not show any sympathy toward the person they are killing. Both Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” are short horror stories that contain horrifying serial killers. Both of these stories contain unusual characters that have dark personalities and…

In the novel Silver Sparrow written by Tayari Jones we follow two daughters, Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon, who are in separate families but have the same father, James Witherspoon. James keeps hidden Dana and her mother from Chaurisse and her mother with whom James is already married to. Dana and her mother do know about Chaurisse and that part of the family; while James does not let this happen with Chaurisse and her side of the family. James does everything that he could…

With his family destroyed, Frankenstein leaves Geneva and tracks his creature into the isolation of the snowy North. The creature tells Walton of all his sufferings and says: “No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine” (188.) The creature takes blame for his actions; he admits his guilt and deeply regrets his evil actions. With his creator dead, the creature decides to end his own life and states: “...My agony was still superior to thine; for the bitter…

manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance. These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the universal heart” (Hawthorne pg.126). Emotions such as guilt, sadness, anger, or even happiness all affect one’s decision. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth’s humanity is degraded throughout the play because of his actions. Twain positions that man has a defect and he “find[s] [it] to…

Now that he’s put away the picture, he figures he can go one with his life now. Years later, Dorian ceases to throw parties and gatherings at his house and he starts spending money on more hands on items such as jewelry, perfume, musical instruments etc. The only reason Dorian had a strong reputation was because he hosted social functions at his house for everyone to come to. Ever since he became self-conscious about the portrait, his reputation began to go down because he became obsessed with…

Therefore, when one soldier loses his life, the rest have to deal with the guilt even if it was not their fault. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, O’Brien writes how he and other soldiers dealt with responsibility and guilt in the Vietnam war. Dealing with guilt and responsibility is different for everyone. There are plenty of examples of how different people are affected by something and how they deal with the guilt and responsibility in the book. In war there is so much death and…