Harvest of Shame

town. Her destiny was always to have that agonizingly beautiful scarlet letter pinned to her breast. Her guilt did not come from destiny, no it came from the ridged society she lives in. It came with one night, one mistake, came a lifetime of public shame. But should she really feel all this guilt? Should the people of Boston force it on her? Now, with the way that the novel is set up, Hester has seemingly been dealt a bad hand of cards from fates deck. This bad luck seems to be present in the…

Constructive and Destructive Mentalities Committing transgressions is an often unavoidable tendency of mankind. Yet, Puritan society and law in the New World revolved around the importance of following God’s will and maintaining a reputation free of sin. Consequently, failure to follow the strict laws and norms of daily life most often resulted in severe punishments or public infamy. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter juxtaposes the effects of these ramifications and of hiding sin upon…

I woke up feeling ashamed and angry on the day of the science fieldtrip. Feeling ashamed and angry, I quickly put on my shirt and headed to the bus. During this time, I became more and more embarrassed. The constant thought of embarrassment caused me to forget a change of clothes and I panicked! The science trip was first period and I couldn’t handle these emotions inside much longer. I kept thinking about the outfit I had on. Why did I wear this? I thought to myself over and over. Once the bus…

circumstance. From Logan, we can also see the impact that parents can have on their child’s moral development. Being that Kohlberg discounted the parent’s role, expansion of outside influences may need to be expanded upon. Also, we saw how feelings of shame can lead to more risk taking behavior and thus a lower level of moral reasoning. In conclusion, while Kohlberg’s Theory had some issues, it still described the moral reasoning behind certain circumstances that we face in…

Do I Die Die or Hypothetically Die? The central idea of Tim O 'Brien 's "The Things They Carried" is that it 's not always the physical baggage that 's bothersome, it could be the emotional baggage. The story was about U.S. troops in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The soldiers had to carry tangible and intangible objects. One of them died. After putting the blame on himself, the lieutenant tried to change his ways to prevent the deaths of his other troops. The lieutenant was Jimmy Cross and…

The most important thing to ever happen to me is without a doubt the death of my father. That moment in time has, and will, continue to shape my life until the day I die. A lot of people assume I miss him. I don 't. (How horrible does that sound?) It 's not that I don 't like him because I do, I just find it hard to miss someone I never had. I don 't know him, I don 't know if he has a middle name, I don 't know what he liked to do in his spare time, and I don 't even know when his birthday was.…

possible to miss a girl more than you loved them. Not a day went by that he didn’t grill himself searching for faults, deeds he should or shouldn’t have done. For what he might have done to hold Ellie in his life for just one more day. The secret shame…

In the book One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy the main character and Nurse Ratched also known as the “Big Nurse” have had their differences, but there’s a reason why the power between Nurse Ratched and McMurphy differ from each other. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched butthead a lot throughout the story. McMurphy represents freedom and joy meanwhile Nurse Ratched represents authority, evil, and death showing the different characteristics making them unique to their character and how their power…

"A white man mustn't be frightened in front of ‘natives’; and so, in general, he isn't frightened.". This is not the case in Orwell's short story "Shooting an Elephant" from 1936. This story takes place during the period of extreme anti-european feeling. Orwell shows that sometimes, the desire to be accepted will often negatively influence a person's moral principles, no matter what authority you got, and presents the insights of the human na-ture, and how a person sometimes bend to the public…

Back then, I couldn’t have defined the word shame, but I could have told you how it felt: hot and red, like my cheeks, burning and public; a flaw in me, on a basic human level. It was as though my own name was written…