Furthermore, Hester knows that the sin she commits was wrong, but she chooses to feel no guilt for her actions. Keith Neilson supports this theory when he states: “She accepts the punishment, but does she ever express any real guilt or contrition over her act? Or does she simply accept it as a social punishment, not a moral condemnation?” (Neilson 271). Hester chooses to embrace the “A” which in return makes the negative meaning of the letter disappear. Since Hester accepts her punishment instead of denying it this results in Hester feeling no guilt for her past actions.
She describes losing as an art as if it's a superior skill that you can learn by study, practice, and observation. By claiming it isn’t hard to master it’s like she is trying to teach others how to lose like she does, but I doubt anyone asked her with admiration and want of learning how she is able to lose so easily. Of course she could have asked herself how it is so easy to lose. At this point in the poem she has herself convinced that loss is not a big deal because it is so common. This tone permeates throughout the poem but never detracts from the underlying seriousness of the “art of losing.” In the second and third line she says “so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.“ Here she is putting the blame elsewhere.
This shows readers that Hannah was very set in her decision to commit suicide, and that with decisions like that, when they become finalized, they become irreversible as well. In addition to Asher’s strong use of symbolism, one may find a meaning behind the scar on main character Hannah’s face. On Hannah’s forehead, there is said to be a scar. Not just a physical one, but an emotional one as well. The mark is left by Jessica Davis who punches and scratches Hannah over her eye in result of teenage jealousy and false accusations.
She decided to let Jerry go unsupervised, believing that he was old and mature enough to take responsibility of himself. The outcome of this decision in the end is what transforms the mother as a character. The mother’s transformation in the story was being able to gain trust over Jerry, when in the end he returned joyful from his days at the beach. At the beginning the mother lacked that confidence and trust over Jerry being able to securely spend time by himself. Even though he had nose bleeds and looked pale in the end, the pride of the mother over Jerry’s ability to take care of himself prevented her from noticing anything being out of the ordinary.
Which, since it could be no other way, which was exactly as it should be.” (254). Dolores had realized that whatever the other people did, they did it for themselves and whether they blamed her or not, it did not matter to her. As a result of this exceptional reasoning, Dolores was able to move on in life and leave the accident and the town of Sam Dent behind her. In conclusion, there will always be a time in life where it will be easier to simply believe in whatever is convenient than face the truth. However, the people who do face the truth and logically reason things out are most likely better off than the people that do not.
Crime and Punishment Testimony Rodion Raskolnikov has committed a double murder, for he has to be psychologically evaluated by I Dr. Alzubi. We the prosecution is entitled to prove Rodion Raskolnikov guilty on all accounts of murder. I have twenty two years of criminal psychiatry experience; which leaves me to prove Rodion sane while he committed the double crime. Rodion Raskolnikov kills the pawnbroker and her sister; Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta. The sole purpose of ripping people off for their money by taking advantage of their poor economic status is immoral.
Lady Macbeth commits suicide from the guilt of persuading her husband to murder the king, and Macbeth himself eventually perishes at the hands of Macduff, a man whose family had fallen victim to murderers after he had fled to England. In this play, Macbeth’s descent into madness is set into motion by the ambitions of his wife. It is Lady Macbeth who first persuades
This is right after she hears from the Nurse that Romeo was the one who killed Tybalt. Her initial shock at Tybalt’s death gives way to her intense feeling of love for Romeo. She feels betrayed and doubts Romeo, perhaps wondering if Romeo only got close to her so that he could kill Tybalt.
He hints that maybe his mother is associated with his father’s murder. His madness and anger that are the products of Gertrude’s activities make him act without thinking beforehand. Ophelia commits suicide following the news of her father’s murder. Laertes and Claudius plan Hamlet’s annihilation which ends in a tragic mess with the deaths of Queen Gertrude, Hamlet, Laertes, Guildenstern, Rosencrantz, and King Claudius. So, now, the Queen, King, and Price of Denmark are all murdered all because of
Being compared to the devil in a novel set in a heavily catholic country shows that she is evil, and the subtitle ‘The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, With the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan’ supports this. The fact that she is a ‘famous curtizan’ supports the idea that she is to blame for the events in the novel, as it is her promiscuity that causes the murders of so many, sparked by jealously in Brachiano. Vittoria is immediately at a disadvantage in the novel and entering the trial however. She is not even given the grace of being the centre of focus in the subtitle, added on at the end almost as if her presence is an afterthought by Webster. This shows how she is handicapped by the fact that she is a woman, in a society controlled by men.