Scott crafts the future city to look like a hell on earth. The director implies this dystopic world dehumanises its citizens, and therefore the replicants fighting for a future reveal more emotion and will to survive. This view of the city provokes the notion that technology, scientific achievements and media or commerce have infected the earth but there is ‘a golden land of opportunity…’ known as ‘the off world’ and is available to you as long you are perfectly healthy and are not a replicant. Society’s lack of caring for nature is linked to its moral corruption. Deckard’s ‘routine retirement’ of the replicant Zhora shows his coldness, however his voiceover notifies the viewer, that this “didn’t make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back”.
His methods were criticised as he seemed to be attempting to place the blame on everything and anything except the two men but his plea was successful and their death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. Darrow’s success in this case raises the question of whether criminals can be held morally responsible for their actions as he reasoned that ‘punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has the free will to select his course’. I feel that this is a huge problem as if there is no free will then we cannot blame or praise people for their actions. If this is true then even the most evil killers could not be blamed with moral responsibility for their actions and this goes against the whole underpinning
Both of them believe that they are doing the right thing for two totally different reasons. Richard Strout kills Frank Fowler because he is in love with Mary Ann, Richard Strout’s ex-wife. Matt Fowler does not find it difficult to kill Richard Strout because it would give his wife peace; “It’s the trial. We can’t go through that, my wife and me…” (Dubus 111). Even though the major theme of this story is revenge, actually no murder can be justified under any circumstances.
This implies that Sheila choose to prostitute herself and the use of 'sleep with' insinuates that it was a pleasant experience. This paired with the stage direction 'shocked' visually shows Bridie's attitude towards Sheila actions regardless of how they ended up saving her life. This is another reference to Bridie's sexual innocence as her implications of it being a pleasant experience shows her lack of experience and knowledge of the act that took place. Sheila runs from Bridie in the hospital after they left the camp, thus creating the start of the conflict between the two. 'and I couldn't stay and keep on lying.
The plan sounds good at first, but when the slightest mistake happens the plan ends in devastation. I think the Friar acts foolishly because, firstly, he is the one who marries Romeo and Juliet. Since Romeo and Juliet are two children who were married at a young age, it made them unable to make considered decisions. Friar Lawrence's other foolish action is giving Juliet a potion that will put her into a death-like sleep "Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilling liquor drink thou off," He does send a message to Romeo, but it dosnt reach Romeo. The Friar helps Juliet fake her death and fool her parents.
Confucianism doesn’t believe in punishments, instead it they believed that the sense of shame will turn any man over to the good side, people are naturally good, and that leaders should lead by example. Well on the other hand Legalism is the exact opposite, believing that only through strict punishments and laws that people can be in order, people are naturally bad, and a ruler should be firm and use punishments and rewards to govern the people. Confucius would evaluate the nature of zero tolerance policies to be bad/disagree/legalist as it believes that humans must be controlled by strict laws and punishments and that people are naturally bad. But Han Fei would evaluate it as good as the strict laws and punishments, are much like to his form of Legalism, but he might want to add rewards into the policy. Confucius would disagree with Zero Tolerance policies as he dislikes punishments, believe that people are naturally good, leaders should lead by example, and instead of actual punishment, make them feel ashamed.
Blanche is driven by sexual desire but is condemned by it for being a whore. She is promiscuous but isn’t supposed to be. Since she doesn’t fit the stereotype, she lies to herself that she is still a Southern Belle. When we first meet Blanche she appears to be a respectable lady. We can see this in Williams’ choice of costume colour,
John's motive to commit suicide comes from the deep love he feels for his wife; "it was not what he actually accomplished by means of the sacrifice…but the sacrifice itself, the gesture – something done for her sake" (Ross 161). John thinks that the result of his death will be the freedom of his wife. The tragic irony is that it's only after sleeping with Steven that Ann is able to renew her love for John and calm her inner storm, but by doing so she looses the object of her love, John, altogether. Alternatively, if she hadn't betrayed John and he hadn't come upon that fateful view, then he wouldn't have sacrificed himself for her, but (and there's always a ‘but' in fiction) Ann would still be emotionally conflicted and would still be unable to love and appreciate her husband. Irony also envelops Ann and Steven's immoral copulation because it was initially John's idea for Steven to visit while she was alone.
We should recognize others individuals capable of leading their own life. But whenever a criminal gets the same punishment he does, then that criminals moral value falls. He became a part of an experiment which Kant’s duty ethics never support. Kant says human should not be treat as a part of an experiment. Therefore, the criminal should get the right punishment as a human being.
It is Duffy’s intention to provoke sympathy in ‘Liar’ and she aims to show us that society has no right in judging those who openly act in a way that others would deem incorrect, even though they are no difference between them in private. By showing Susan to be a lonely and pitiful person who is unduly judged, Duffy is able to achieve this. In the opening stanza, ‘Susan’ claims that “she was really a man” and that “after she’d taken off her cotton floral day-frock she was him all right, in her head, dressed in that heavy herringbone.” She has a daytime persona in which she is feminine and harmless however the herringbone opposes the femininity of her daytime persona; she believes that she is a man and so in the evenings wears male clothing. The outward signification of physical clothing points towards inner confusion, however the line “The eyes in the mirror knew that” shows that although she is trying to suppress herself, she is aware of reality and knows things, meaning that she is not mad, she is simply a woman who cannot accept herself the way she is and craves to be someone else. Also, the fact that she believes herself to be a man is not a lie, she does not intend to deceive anyone and does not desire to harm those around her by dressing as a man, it is simply a personal neurotic tendency that she has that has no affect on others.