Remorse

Although the Carpenter does not eat as many oysters than the Walrus, as Tweedledee points out to Alice, I placed him at the lowest end of the axis because of what he eats. While the other characters on this list are either addicted to food or drugs, the Carpenter eats an excess of living creatures, mixing murder into his gluttony. While eating oysters is hardly seen as a sin, the oysters in this poem can walk, talk, and communicate with the Carpenter and the Walrus, giving the Carpenter’s and…

translates into my life as well. Throughout the book Tom gains a much better grasp of how serious some situations are. In particular he gained a large degree of remorse for his lies. In the beginning he showed little to no regret for all of the lies he told Aunt Polly and Sid. By the end of the book he feels genuine remorse for these lies and tends to tell the truth more often. He also realizes right away that injun Joe is dangerous and avoids at all costs. Academically I have…

power he still has hallucinations which are most likely a manifestation of guilt. While at dinner that night Macbeth sees an image of Banquo, proving not only his paranoia but his progressive loss of sanity, this also indicates that he does feel some remorse and guilt for the murder of Banquo. During the murder of Macduff’s family Macbeth feels no…

unending feeling of remorse for not helping Hassan. He then chooses to go on this journey and finally is able to become "good again". Khaled Hossieni, in The Kite Runner, explores how the road to redemption begins with a moral mishap, such as Amir 's betrayal of Hassan, that causes and internal struggle, like guilt, and a desire to seek forgiveness and successfully atone for one 's past mistakes, as Amir does in confronting Assef and saving Sohrab. In order to win…

are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Malcolm. Their actions have consequences on themselves, on those around them and fate in the play. Macbeth turns into a man driven by his own ego and cowardice. Lady Macbeth transforms into a human capable of feeling remorse. Malcolm is found running from his problems and by the end he has changed his character completely, he ends up leading an entire army. In Shakespeare’s work, the characters undergo significant transmutations. Macbeth starts as a loyal…

of the play, Macbeth even refused to face Malcolm and became stubborn bringing about his death which led to him not to care about the death of his wife. The action was also another demonstration of how Macbeth was the true villain as he showed no remorse even for the death of his wife. Evil is in everybody; however it is the actions we care out that make us truly evil or benevolent. Macbeth killed a lot of people and even though he was under considerate influence under people and prophecies, he…

A Sociopath in the Venation Era Sociopaths seek to dominate others and “win” at all costs. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the character Iago demonstrates sociopathic tendencies such as manipulation of others and lack of empathy/remorse. Iago’s actions can only be explained by sociopathy; his ruthless manipulation and his lack of empathy are the key to his plan to create Othello’s downfall. Iago clearly manipulates others in the play with wit or charm and it seems to be very…

him to a religion he does not believe in. Society In the novel, Meursault is looked as strange in the beginning for being too indifferent and detached from human emotion about his mother’s death. When he murders the brother, however, his lack of remorse or guilt, moves him to a level of refusing to conform to society’s standards. This moves him from being unemotional and stoic to characters in the novel, to being an evil monster that refuses to accept society’s standards of decent living.…

murder would have. Finally he was aware that he had killed the old man and not felt any remorse after it. In the text it says “The officers were satisfied. I was singularly at ease.” That means that he was afraid of getting caught without noticing it and then was put at ease when he lied to the officers. That helps me conclude that he had some kind of remorse that was hidden deep within him and that remorse is what makes him aware of what he did. On the other hand we have the part…

Interlopers, by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), some of the main characters are blinded by their animal nature and what they are used to, which leads to all of their deaths as a result. TS: Zaroff is like an animal because he kills his own kind with little to no remorse which eventually leads to his downfall after being blinded by thinking it was still a game being played with Rainsford. CD1:Why- killing people- "I wanted an ideal animal to hunt," explained the general.…