These loses know how to bring great regret and guilt to Creon. Creon suddenly experiences his horrible anagorisis. He realizes that had he only listened to Haimon, Theriesies, or Charagos sooner, the people closest to him would not have left him. Although his hubris once maintained fear in his people, it eventually results in a significant loss of respect. In this unimaginable position of sorrow there is nothing Creon can do to fix anything at all.
Kings, lords, great families and priests ruled and all others were slaves who often had fallen victim to human sacrifice. The irrigation system along with other factors left Sumer desolated, stripped, deserted, and deforested. The people of Easter Island and Sumer were so blinded by their feats that they couldn’t see that they were standing right on the verge of deterioration and even when they did see it made no
Each relationship has it flaws. In the real world, behind all the sneaking around and affairs, true love lies from one person to the next. Each character in this story has their “happy ever after” that is either accepted in society but there is no true love connection between the two people,such as Wilson and Myrtle, or it is not accepted in society but the true love connection is equally shared between two people, such as Myrtle and Tom. In the end, Myrtle, Wilson and Gatsby all have tragic deaths. The two men in The Great Gatsby who loved the purest, Wilson and Gatsby, could not live their lives till natural death.
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom” (Choragos, scene 4) This line, spoken by Choragus suggests at Creon’s experience up to the deaths of his wife, Haemon, and Antigone. Through unwise naive actions, Creon causes himself great sadness because the people who he felt the closest to died. The whole mess started when Creon made an ignorant law against burying Polyneices, Antigone's brother, because Polyneicesbetrayed the city. Creon wasn’t his using wisdom when he declares that Polyneices can’t have a proper burial; he acted against the gods and the other citizens of Thebes's beliefs. After Creon’s law came to pass, Antigone then went ahead and buried her brother, believing she should follow the gods laws instead of her own king’s.
“There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!” (pg 30) Parris tried to defend himself with such passionate and heartfelt comments but Proctor would have none of it. To him Parris was not in his society. Also, his relationship with Abigail Williams was a strained one, plagued with affair, scandal, and betrayal. He did love her, but soon after seeing what she truly was he resented his connection to her and, like what his old true nature told him, he confessed, causing a resent to appear within the town that never gave him his old trust
We see a variety of responses but it is the inability of the majority to understand the roots of the plague that prevents them from undergoing personal transformation. The religious dogma that is directed towards them leaves them ignorant and inflexible their own ideas about God and their place within society for themselves. This causes many to direct their devastation and fear to misunderstood characters that disagree with societal conventions. The crazed mob that accuses the Gowdies of witchcraft exemplifies the notion that faith blinds people to reality in ‘Year of Wonder’. Faith in God is easily converted into superstition amongst the ignorance of the uneducated.
His words went from, "No pleasure but meanness," to "It's no real pleasure in life." at the very end of the story. The Misfit receives no pleasure in killing the grandmother; instead, he feels her goodness. In a way, grace has hit him
Punishment in The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, physical punsihment is nothing compared to how the mind can cause punishment. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Phynne is isolated by the members of Purtian society and left with her child Pearl, a constent reminder of her sin. Dimmesdale’s choice to not feese up to his sin leaves him with mental punishment that makes him sicker and weaker. Chillingsworth does not receive pain, but he does inflict pain to those around him. The main characters of The Scarlet Letter are left to tourment by themselves, the worst punishment of them all.
The Cask of Amontillado I believe that no individual is ever justified to take justice into his or her own hands. Even though many people do take justice into their own hands, I believe that they are not actually aware of what they are doing. So in that case I believe that they are justified. In the short story "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor takes justice into his own hands. He actually buried one of his best friends alive because he embarrassed Montresor in public.
During the last scene, Lady Macbeth expresses her guilt through a dream. Lady Macbeth says “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand, Oh! Oh! Oh!” (5, 1; 42). The causes of her death was the buildup of guilt in her.