Throughout Great Expectations, Pip is constantly feeling guilty of everything, even though he does not always deserve to feel this way. Pip’s older sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, causes Pip to have the feeling of guilt throughout his childhood and adulthood the most. As bad as it sounds, Mrs. Joe actually makes Pip feel guilty for being alive. Pip tells us this when he says, “I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.”(Dickens 22) I don’t think that it is fair for Pip to feel guilt for living at such a young age. He doesn’t know any better and could possibly end up doing something really bad because of this feeling.
Tragedy is used to vehicle the reader’s moral justifications, sympathy and ambiguities. This is caused by the character’s experiences, as they largely aggravate human discomfort and “question traditions and expectations when they seem too immutable.” (Azar Nafisi). The greatest of human discomforts is the conflict of moral pluralism, which evokes ethical ambiguities and sympathy for those who have transgressed. In the novel, Notes on a Scandal, the character Bathsheba Hart takes on an explicit and exploitive affair with one of her students, a boy at the tender age of thirteen. Q3 (122).
Alienation causes the characters in Wuthering Heights to make choices that are not always in their best interest. Examples of this behaviour are made by Hindley and Isabella; Hareton, Linton and Cathy; and Heathcliff, Edgar and Catherine. Loneliness and alienation make Isabella and Hindley desperate people, and perhaps their alienation could have been avoided. Cathy, Linton and Hareton all experience alienation from each other, but the most alienation is caused by Heathcliff. Lastly, Catherine, Heathcliff and Edgar are alienated the most in the novel, Wuthering Heights.
Shame or Guilt What exactly is the difference between shame and guilt? Shame, closely relative to guilt, is a painful feeling caused by the thought of being guilty, flawed, or indecent. It underlines the question, “what is wrong with me”; setting off an emotional disappoint about something within you, our basic nature. Guilt is that bothered conscience like feeling we get shamelessly knowing we did something wrong. In most cases we tend to feel unworthy, ashamed, or embarrassed with our actions which ties it to what is right and what is wrong, morality and immorality.
He is complicit in Dwight’s attempt to lure Rosemary; he finds that they are too deeply entwined to stop the prevent carnage. Dwight’s attempts to “improve” Toby and turn him into a “man”, highlight the extreme vulnerability and sense of powerlessness that pervade many of the surrogate father figures in the novel. Dwight constantly sets him up for ridicule. For example, he makes him “shuck” horse chestnuts without gloves, which is an incredibly difficult task. His fingers become covered with a yellow stain and people think that he is hygienically unclean.
I fight it. I try real hard all the time” (3). Cecilia talks about how being the sister of a gang leader makes people assume that it is in her “blood” and that she must take part in it. This starts her journey for searching what she really wants in her life. “It’s…remember the good times…now I know that the things my brother was doing were bad….The church taught me that was wrong….showed me how gangbanging ain’t nothing but the devil’s mess” (54).
The savage boy’s emotions really control them and their emotions lead to many different feelings or actions, usually bad, but in Ralph’s case his emotions turn to anger when he is frustrated with the savages. In this quote Ralph is running through the woods trying to avoid being caught and killed by Jacks tribe. He then stops and sees the sows head and out of rage from his war-like predicament he smacks it onto the ground. “The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell. A sick fear and rage swept him.
It is evident when he states, “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been quality of a crime” (Frankenstein 34). Victor had become obsessed because he was growing apart from the world and put all his energy into his monster. In the same manner, Macbeth’s ambition also became obsessive. In the beginning Macbeth had no plan to betray King Duncan and to take over the throne. However, all this changed when the three witches planted the seed of betrayal in him and when Lady Macbeth encouraged him to kill King Duncan and become king.
After the death of Allie, he dealt with the event by breaking all the windows in the garage “just for the hell of it”. The onset of depression may help explain the display of over sensitivity that he shows at times. He views himself as the “catcher in the rye”, saving children and their innocence from entering the adult world that is full of “phonies”. He doesn’t want “to have any goddamn stupid useless conversations with anyone”, which not only supports that he is a “phony” himself, as he strikes up conversations with various people he meets, but also alienates himself from society. Holden’s loneliness and alienation causes him much pain as he seeks for human contact and love.
Evil Machiavellian or Unwitting Pawn? Explore the Role of Bosola in ‘The Duchess Of Malfi’ The text that I am using for this essay is ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ by John Webster. Bosola is a central character that experiences the most complex situations in the play. Bosola causes debate on his actions as the audience may be split in believing his actions are due to his personality and character, or because of his delegation to others in which he has no other choice but to abide. Bosola can either be seen as an evil Machiavellian character to an extent as at time he conveys compassion, or an unwitting pawn who is just doing his job Bosola potentially conveys an insight to the reader about the future in the play, saying there are acts of corruption.