Noble lie

Most lies in life are a slippery slope, causing nothing but pain for both the sender and the receiver. In Moliere’s Tartuffe, Tartuffe use of lies and deceit to trick a family for is own selfish gains, while destroying the family in the process. Many themes can be seen in the play, such as hypocrisy, religion, and morals and ethics. But lies and deceit are the two things that truly fuel Tartuffe, and fuels the play itself. In the beginning, Orgon, the head of the household, has taken in a…

make them feel better. Sometimes one of these little lies can progress into to something that blows up into a person's face,and it makes them wonder why they even lied in the first place. A time in which this happened to me I didn’t even realize the lie until later on when it came to blow up in my face. In the eighth grade I told my best friend that I would always keep her secrets and that she shouldn’t worry about it. At the time that was a reasonable thing to say, and I wouldn't have ever…

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive” - although often misattributed to Shakespeare, the quote sums up the results of lying to cover one’s tracks. During Winter Break 2015, I was in Washington, D.C with my family, when my brother Solomon and I devised a plan to change our other brother, Louie’s, phone’s password for the remaining 3 days of the trip, resulting in Louie’s inability to use it. Once we carried out our mischievous plan, my father tried to help Louie figure out…

Sometimes the truth is the right thing to tell even when you believe an individual may not want to hear it. Bending the truth slightly, can lead some into thinking that “Things are always worse than what you hear” (227). Choosing not to tell the truth can distort people's feelings and beliefs. I chose the statement Teaching the Chicken to Cluck because they are a small symbols in the novel with multiple references and a large meaning behind them . The chicken is a cult animal of the Makumba cult…

good to know the truth about your country? It is actually bad to lie even if people say it is? Most people can agree that people do want to know the truth, but is it really good for them? Some governments around the world do lie to their citizens, on the other hand, some do not. The term propaganda is often used to promote political cause or point of view which is what some governments do use. Governments should have to right to lie to their citizens because it could be for the benefit a whole…

horrible mess which twist the story line into a different place. Don John is one of the most deceptive characters in the play. He also tricks people with the intention of having a bad outcome. To paint the picture that he is a good person, he said this lie. “I wonder that thou, being, as thou say'st thou art, born under Saturn, goest about to…

Adults will lie to children to keep the children happy and not worry, they will also lie to keep children safe and they will also lie to save others peoples lives. In Number The Stars they showed a lot of examples of adults lying. Mrs. Johansen told Annemarie and Kirsti that Lise Johansen was run over by a car. Even though she was telling the truth but she was telling a partial lie too, because she was run over by a car but she was run over at a secret Resistance meeting. “She was part of the…

I asked teens why, when, and how they lie, they said it’s on a needed basis. Everybody lies, and it’s bad, “it destroys human dignity and makes the liar more worthless than a small thing. Lying is never justified, no matter what the circumstances are. People say that lying is allowable when you’re protecting someone or you don’t want to do something, but all lying is awful. Lying can help you, but it can hurt you a lot more. Truthfulness in statements which cannot be avoided is the formal…

The second reason the authors underlying message of polygraphs being unreliable is effective is because, he states that they are not technologically sound. Polygraphs only provide certain information that has to be interpreted which can become difficult when dealing with important things such as murders as interpretation are not needed, straight facts are. Polygraphs are seen as devices that can give direct insight into whether a person is telling the truth or not but, this article shows that…

The satiric and rhetorical writings of Lucian provided informative writings. He wrote A True History in the 2nd century ADE which illustrated the fact that lying was rife within the authors of the past including academics and philosophers. Lucian argues that everyone was deceitful and alludes to the fact that others were deceitful about their lying in their writing. Lucian was no different, claiming that ‘I tell all kinds of lies in a plausible and specious way’ whilst not writing of mythic…