Omissions are purposely leaving pieces of information out of an answer or not answering at all. Stereotypes and groupthink are very similar in the sense that they both create lies based on a group’s actions or feelings. A straight forward lie is known as an out-and-out-lie. Finally, Ericsson addresses dismissal which is avoiding an answer and delusion which is making an excuse a fact. Ericsson feels that lying is an important part of life; in fact, it tends to minimize the number of times someone’s feelings get hurt and allows success and happiness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to convey the theme that evil and good are in the eye of the beholder. The scarlet “A” that Hester is condemned to wear is a material brand of her sin. To the eyes of the community and Hester herself, the “A” is a sign of adultery, penance, and penitence. Although Hester sees it as this, she is not ashamed of her brand. This is demonstrated in the text “Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignomity in which she was enveloped” (40).
There is also the fact that she has a dissolute feeling when she knows the people that she mailed the letters to will read them. Yet one could make the argument that Miss. Strangeworth is not evil but simply has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). OCD is where she must have everything perfect, “She found doing things exactly right” (Jackson 210). This would cause her to see the imperfections within people but not herself and cause her to think that she had to be better than anyone else.
Dimmesdale’s sin was not adultery but not having the courage to admit that he had adulterated. But Pearl provided Dimmesdale the harshest text, and most penetrating judgment of his failure to admit to his adultery. He was painful in his heart and suffered from his conscience and his brief. Pearl was just
This also shows how Atticus simply can not see the dark in people. When assuming that this is just a phase Bob Ewel is going through and in some time it will be over he is deathly wrong, since Bob Ewel is evil by his nature and will do all
The second character to blame for Lennie’s death is Lennie. He is responsible for his own death as he has no idea of his own strength. His inability to comprehend most things leaves him at a disadvantage. This disadvantage allows him to be manipulated into bad situations which will only cause him trouble. Although he has learning difficulties he can still tell the moral difference between right and wrong.
The judge wanted everyone to think he was so innocent, but in fact, he was overwhelmingly selfish. Judge Pyncheon is similar to Cap, from The Pathfinder. Although he is not the most visible antagonist in the novel, his attitude of greed, superiority, and ignorance, cause him to be intellectually blinded. He is unable to judge the people around him, and puts his trust in the worst villains, such as the Tuscarora Arrowhead, and Corporal Muir, while being suspicious of the faithful Jasper. Cap and Judge Pyncheon are similar because they both have their outrageous moments.
She becomes the outcast in the town after having to wear the letter “A” on her chest as her punishment. With that she didn’t allow such a symbol to change the person she is and didn’t allow that to determine her identity in society. Dealing with the punishment of sins can reveal your true identity and reveal how strong of a person you truly
But men generally abandon the care of their most important concerns to the uncertain prudence and discretion of those, whose interest it is to reject the best and wisest institutions; and it is not till they have been led into a thousand mistakes, in matters the most essential to their lives and liberties, and are weary of suffering, that they can be induced to apply a remedy to the evils with which they are oppressed. It is then they begin to conceive, and acknowledge the most palpable truths, which, from their very simplicity, commonly escape vulgar minds, incapable of analysing objects, accustomed to receive impressions without distinction, and to be determined rather by the opinions of others, than by the result of their own examination. If we look into history we shall find that laws which are, or ought to be, conventions between men in a state of freedom, have been, for the most part, the work of the passions of a few, or the consequences of a fortuitous or temporary necessity; not dictated by a cool examiner of human nature, who knew how to collect in one point the actions of a multitude, and had this only end in view, the greatest happiness of
People do not like to admit to their failures because they think of it as a sign of weakness. Admitting that you have made a mistake is not a sign of weakness, but an indicator that you have the ability to accept your flaws and take a step in the right direction in order to change the outcome. Many people will blame their failures and misfortune on the life they have been dealt. They will blame society, their race, their lifestyle, or other people. By doing so, the only thing they are accomplishing is pointing the finger.