DEATH PENALTY FOR The death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered so much. Some family members of crime victims may take years or decades to recover from the shock and loss of a loved one. One of the things that helps hasten this recovery is to achieve some kind of closure. Life in prison just means the criminal is still around to haunt the victim. A death sentence brings finality to a horrible chapter in the lives of these family members.
ORDINARY PEOPLE Ordinary people (1980) is a psychodrama indicating a disintegration of an upper-class family, staying at wealthy Chicago suburb, followed by the accidental death of elder teenage son and suicidal attempt by the younger one. Devastated by the loss of their older son, well-to-do suburban couple Calvin and Beth are trying to rebuild their lives after their younger son, Conrad, who attempts suicide after the traumatic incidence of his brother’s death. The movie takes its shape when we find that the mother Beth as cold and withdrawn from Conrad, and at times actively hostile to him and to her husband, too. Conrad, recently back home from three months in the hospital after slitting his wrists, is between uneasy and agonized in his high-school and family world. Calvin remains emotionally open
The part that counts, anyways." Brooks had lost all hope and accepted life at Shawshank as normal, was unable to integrate into society when he was released, and consequently committed suicide. Red is headed that way when Andy
His constant bleeding symbolized that the remorse of living in the cruel time period and the loss of his brother is causing a strain and slowly killing him. He hated himself for living in a terrible world, and was unable to withstand the pain and suffering of his guilt. Liesel's thievery is a form of defiance and self-actualization. By stealing a book from a book burning, she defies Nazi censorship and takes her education into her own hands. When Ilsa offers Liesel a book, Liesel refuses it because she is enraged at Ilsa for firing Liesel's foster mother Rosa.
Nothing could bring back the lives lost and undo the damage done to fin, not even a lifelong sentence. When Tom and Brendan visited Daniel he kept on repeating “I’m sorry, I fucked up everything” Daniel felt guilt for what he had done. Daniel was aggressive and he didn’t listen to anyone but he had feelings. Isn’t it enough punishment for a young man to have to live with the fact that he had killed his friends and injured his cousin for the rest of his life? “(Daniel) he had
The secret has eaten him alive and he is never able to recover and forgive himself. When his family finally finds out about the lie, they are astonished, shocked, and hurt. Paul says “Don't be bitter? We visited her grave!” (Edwards 382). Him and his mother can not forgive David because he has made them both miss out on the daughter and sister
Mr Birling’s, who showed no sorrow or sympathy for a former employee's death, was ruthless in dismissing her after the strike. Accusing her of being a ringleader. Reinstating all the other employees, except her, must have been very demoralising to Ms Smith. Moreover, Mr Croft, showed nor compassion or sympathy for a former lover, despite the fact that he claimed they had separated on amicable terms. I believe that he lying and that he left this woman in a state of distress that contributed to her state of mind when she committed suicide.
That moment that Tom Robinson stepped out of that court room and being granted guilty for abusing me, is the day that I knew I would never be the same. The day Tom Robinson died in the county jail, something died inside me too. I took an innoncent man from this world and I was the only one to blame. Happiness has left my soul and it's never returning. With him life was a routine; without him life is unbearable.
Our sympathy further develops towards the end of the play. Macbeth realised he has lost everything he had and all his potential. In another soliloquy he says, "And that which should accompany old age, as honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have" The audience feel great sympathy for Macbeth in this scene. He feels extremly depressed as he is left alone without any supporters and he realises no-one wants to help him anymore. People are beginning to tuen against him and he feel she has nothing left to live for.
Her life is like his life, her emotions and reactions determine his own emotions and reactions. He grew up to be as careless as Daisy is. When Daisy and Gatsby kill Myrtle towards the end of the novel, all Gatsby cares about is what Daisy is going to feel about the murder and nothing else. His carelessness about the future as a young, ambitious man leads to the eventual downfall of himself, and along with him the American Dream. Jay Gatsby’s death at the end of the novel portrayed that there is no way possible to attain the American Dream, even any regular dream.