Meursault then finds himself on trial for murder and loses, mostly due to his unnatural behavior. All of the events in the story seem to happen to Meursault, rather than Meursault creating the events themselves. His carelessness are what get him pushed into these situations and he does little to encourage or stop them. Meursualt lives his life indifferent and unattached. Mersault’s view of the world is a purely physical one and sees no reasoning to the nature of the universe.
He expressed these moral characters in times of trouble. While he was in put away in a cell, his fellow friends bribed the guard but Socrates knowing what his fate is coming too did not leave because he thought it was unjust. When the penalty of death was brought up at his trial he said, "Death is something I couldn't care less about, but that my whole concern is not to do anything unjust or impious." (The Apology line 32d) He was concerned with acting unjustly. He took full responsibility for what he was being accused for.
I saw it with perfect distinctness—all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones.” When he sees the eye, the narrator feels no regret or compassion for killing this innocent man. He claims it was indeed the victim’s fault. It was the “vulture” eye that pressured him to commit this unlawful act not hatred or hostility. It quickly becomes evident that the narrators attempt to plead sane is exactly the opposite in reality. The entire essence and purpose of the
In Cold Blood, Perry Smith is presented to the reader as a heartless and savage murderer, but during his confession, he says, “I didn’t want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat” (302), which makes the readers realize that it is not his savage nature that drives him to murder; it is Smith’s mental condition that does not allow him to feel that his actions are wrong. In Capote, Perry is seen as a soft-spoken gentleman the whole movie.
He considers himself “superman”, above the human race, beyond the society he lives in. He feels no human connection to his surroundings. The setting of the Raskolnikov’s also places a negative influence, doesn’t allow him to think positively. In the beginning of the story, Raskolnikov formulates and executes a plan to kill an mean pawnbroker, who just sits on all this wealth while there are so many needy around her. He performs the perfect crime with no witnesses and any evidences.
A Few Good Men shows many examples of learning how to take responsibility for personal actions, but one of the last scenes with Colonel Jessep reveals two points most related to this issue of responsibility: responsibility to authority and responsibility of authority. In the first, Marines Dawson and Downey begin to understand why answering to authority was wrong in this situation, and in the second, Colonel Jessep is convicted for a murder in which he never feels he should be responsible for. Both of these situations allow others to see issues of morals, responsibility, and obedience. A Few Good Men gives several lessons, one of which can impact society as a whole if understood thoroughly: One must always know they are responsible for their own actions--always. It does not matter what the circumstances are, one is responsible for what they do personally, and what the outcomes can be when ordering others to do something.
That's why all suicides are morally questionable, because next to your family, and social-circle, the paramedics, the police, the coroner, they all lose something, in having to clean you up. To what extent is a police officer morally obligated to assess whether a person he or she shoots actually wants to be killed? I believe there isn’t an extent because if a person tries to point a weapon at you there intention is to kill not just to injury unless they want to commit suicide in this
He hated his job because he worked for the government. He despises imperialism and wants to quite but has not. This essay is an account of a controversial decision he made while living there. He is called about an elephant that has gone “must” and is loose in the village. “Must” is when male elephant is sexually active and extremely violent, so it is dangerous for it to be around people.
Bateman kills people for his own satisfaction, the nameless narrator does it because of his urge to get rid of an eye. Similarities Patrick Bateman and the nameless narrator both feel the judgement or "the eye" of the antagonist. This force them to do very drastic actions in order to control their psychological problems. The main character in American Psycho appears very normal to the public. This is getting clarified in the beginning of the movie, while doing his morning routine, this goes through his mind: "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction.
‘Light’ for example has no meaning if there is no ‘darkness’; Love’ has no meaning if there is no ‘hatred’. Any action, however interesting at first, becomes monotonous in the long run. Take the case of an executioner. When he hangs a man for the first time, he is badly shaken at the idea of putting a human life to an end. But as he gets used to it, he becomes a hardened soul.