When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed.
Alisa Key August 16, 2010 AP English 11 The Scarlet Letter The progression of Hester throughout The Scarlet Letter was dramatic and varied greatly. In the beginning of the book she was feeling ashamed, isolated, and shunned by the townspeople. To her, the “A” stood for more than adultery, it stood for “ashamed.” She was being imprisoned by the judgment of others; the lock was a simple scarlet letter. She was living while being haunted by her past. Even seeing her own daughter, Pearl, would sometimes bring up the emotion of her sin all over again.
Aaron Que Mrs. MacIntyre ENG3US 20 July 2015 Regretness To Guiltiness With consequences that have been conducted, one emotionally reflects on what one has done, the regret on our actions slowly whittle down one's wellbeing. Facing the problem is the only way to move forward. That is why humans should learn to forgive others for the problems that they have caused. In the essay Let Me Tell You About The Crime That I Committed by Sallie Tisdale and the movie The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Lloyd Kramer has both related that guilt has its way to make our inner selves feel terrible. The essay connects with the movie by the guilt that has been haunting both Sallie Tisdale and Eddie.
The novel is a story not only about what happened to author and her family, her relatives in that period of time, it also describes the author’s perspectives toward the political problems from the age of ten through her growing time. In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi grew up with the series of historical events in Iran through her young eyes, and the Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979 as in the dream of her family. However, she witnessed firsthand how the new Iran and its people, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, were suffered with the awkward changes in the society. With Marji dangerously refused to be silent at this injustice, her parents sent her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial for the young woman who was finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound
According to Freud, mixture of feelings of love and hate that Diane presumably felt for her mother were the results of her obsessional thoughts and fear of losing the mother, and could actually mean an unconscious wish of Diane to kill her mother. In order to remove the feelings of guilt resulting from those thoughts, Diane engaged in ritualistic praying that have given her a relief. In terms of treatment, Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining “insight” (McLeod, 2007). The therapies such as psychoanalysis, free association and dream analysis are used to deal with unconscious mental processes. It is assumed that some anxiety disorders such as phobias, OCD,
1) Andrea rationalized her behavior by believing in the preaching’s of a traveling minister. 2) Andrea also rationalized her behavior by stating voices in her head told her that she and her children were doomed to hell because they were bad. 3) Andrea also believed that her actions were justified because the children would be better off dead than alive. Andrea Yates This is the story of a very disturbed woman who, in the throws of life, became disturbed and did not know what true reality was. This is her story taken from various articles researched on the Internet.
The Taliban soon invaded Pakistan in 2003 and wreaked havoc, death, and destruction upon Pakistan. The Taliban invaded Swat Valley and attacked Malala’s school on April 9, 2007 because they thought that girls’ education was wrong. Then the Taliban took away children’s education and enforced harsh laws in Swat Valley. Afterwards, Malala bravely responded by making a speech against the Taliban’s extreme ways on September 1, 2008. She also blogged about the attack on her school and made a website that works for education.
Rusty only agreed with certain things Woroniecki believed. However Woroniecki had a major influence on Andrea, she was capatovated by his ideas. He preached bad mothers who go to hell and raise children who will go to hell too. Those words resonated with Andrea. At the time she killed her children, she believed she was possessed and that the sign of Satan was marked on her scalp.
By taking on a psychoanalytic scope of her autobiography, a reader can explore the author’s past to delve deeper into the meaning of her harsh language and her opposing tone towards the world. To reinforce her strife she includes, “I have heard Indians joke about those who act as if they have no relatives.” (97) Feeling ostracized from both her European and Hopi relatives, she projects dissent against the assertion and claims that she has "no relatives.” (97) Additionally, she also emphasizes that they "threw [her] away." (97) Therefore, Rose also employs an idea of herself as inhuman; she mentions that her family “threw [her] away”, connoting that they simply disposed of her as worthless. Rose repeatedly states that her family ignored her and further intensifies her unpromising feelings of isolation from society as she reiterates, "When my family threw me away” (97) and includes, “every human on earth did likewise.” (97) If one were to observe Rose’s identity issues from a psychoanalytic perspective, considering that “as a child... [She] knew she didn’t belong among people” (97) and was “emotionally crippled” (97), her bitter tone stems from her empty stance in the world as a
There are some direct similarities such as sex and confrontations, but we have to keep in mind that the people on the photos from Iraq are dead or tortured and the people in reality can leave whenever they want. That’s is a huge difference. The writer claims that the photos are a kind of a reflection of the moral (or the missing morale) in our society and culture. He questions why the soldiers would show themselves as heartless murders to the whole world. He explains this by describing how the soldiers has absorbed the attitude about the missing boundaries in exposure when in comes to television and communication and when they are in war and have the ultimate power compared to their prisoners the restrains disappear and things can get a lot more violent as they did in Abu