Incest

for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest should be considered wrong too. A mother is not legally allowed to kill a three-month-old child because it is a byproduct of rape or incest, and a fetus has the same inviolability rights, so it should not be allowed legally to kill the fetus. The fact that the child is in the womb does not give mothers the right to kill the fetus in ordinary abortion arguments and should not be different in the case of rape or incest either (Cohen, 2015). Judith…

p.371). Functionalist believe that even the incest taboo thats found in many cultures serves a purpose to society. Incest is when people who are considered to be “very closely related” participate in sexual intercourse with one another (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The reason functionalist say many cultures deem incest as a taboo is because it causes “role confusion” and because excluding incest promotes “exogamy” (Henslin, 2015, p.371). When incest is involved, people have a difficult time…

walk into a clinic and unemotionally make the decision of getting an abortion without even blinking an eye, but abortion should remain legal. There are many reasons women get abortions. Some of these reasons are, women's rights, medical, and rape and incest. Abortions are safe and hold many values to people in these circumstances. Women have always had a right to have an abortion. The federal law protects women's rights and has since 1983. Within the last ten years though, women's rights to…

My client, Oedipus, is being tried for patricide and incest. I believe Oedipus is innocent and so should the jury because Oedipus said that most of his actions aren’t his fault. Oedipus shouldn’t be blamed for killing Laius since he acted in self-defense. Secondly his actions has already been decided by fate. If he has no control of his actions, then he shouldn’t be guilty of them. Lastly, on the charge of incest, Oedipus had no knowledge of who Jocasta was or that she was his mother and so he…

Incest is wrong in every way possible and you can’t believe that it still happens and that it’s just in books, plays, poems. For example, Buried Child a play written by Sam Shepard leaves the family shatters the play along the story line and towards the end of the play he breaks the American family with no way to unite. Sam Shepard lived in the era where people did not show case their relationship in front of others. Furthermore, when you take the first step into taking a leap where everybody is…

pleasure and gain. While the knight and young maiden in the tale are not genetically related, the physical and emotional damage done was no less significant. This is something that is easily translated to real life data. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), some 33% of girls and women who are sexually assaulted have suicidal thoughts and of that number some 13% have attempted to take their own lives just like Jocasta did (Cite here). It is common knowledge that…

On my first draft of the Hamlet open topic essay I only got a 5 because I failed to use much substance. I used a lot of broad language and did not dive into specifics making my point not come across strongly. When I stated a plot point I did not mention why it was crucial in accordance to the prompt. Meaning when I did have substance I failed to identify the so what, or why does it matter. For my second draft, I tried to continuously relate each point I made with the thesis so ideas were not…

Is Incest the Worse Thing in ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore? In many ways, John Ford’s, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore is a straightforward play. Giovanni and Annabella, brother and sister fall in love with each other and have an incestuous relationship. Incestuous relationships are one thing that has stayed taboo for many generations. Everyone in the story tells the protagonist that it is wrong. This play is often compared to “Romeo and Juliet” by Williams Shakespeare, because of the star crossed love.…

David Hume’s belief that morality is based on sentiment can be defined by the feelings of approval and disapproval one will have when they act. Hume argues that reason cannot discover moral truths but that sentiment is the basis of morality. I agree with Hume in the sense that one needs a feeling of approval or disapproval in order to motivate an action. Hume presents the argument that one's feelings is the basis of morality and that reasons, not reason alone, which is defined to be a cause or…

Sutpen's eccentric actions cause pain for others, but his tragic fate at the end indicates the carnivalesque reversal. Being a character in a historical novel, Sutpen’s doom at the end surpasses the personal to encompass the fate of the people he represents. In other words, his narrative acquires an allegorical dimension: He is the typical embodiment of eccentricity as he carries his "design" at the cost of human lives and their dignity. Sutpen’s tale of rise and fall is the story of the…