The Scarlet Letter: The Dangers of Hypocrisy In Matthew 23:13 Jesus cries out, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces.” Shortly after that, Jesus says, “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?” Since hypocrisy can be found in each and every person in some form or another, scores of authors have used their stories to illustrate the dangers of hypocrisy. Nathaniel Hawthorne chose to display this moral in one of his most famous works. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne works through his characters to reveal the perilous dangers of hypocrisy. Hawthorne displays the hypocrisy in his characters through the first scaffold scene.
Daisy’s inability to be honest to the man she claimed to love, and Tom’s stride to be powerful and in control led to the slaughter of three innocent people who got tied up in a game of wealth and competence. Agreeing with the description made by Nick Carraway towards Tom and Daisy Buchannan, they both “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or what ever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had
Ethical formalism that is a deontological system because its determinant is motive or intent and not consequence. This is the system that the cops chose because they believed their motive was in fact good and they weren’t worried about getting caught. All the police officers where worried about in this situation was getting drugs off the street and taking off some of the pressure they were being put under by society. I believe that if Detective Griffiths would have not gotten shot and killed and this was a normal raid and drug but this situation never blows up like it did. It was a very unfortunate accident where everything that could go wrong went wrong and it ended up with a dead officer and a criminal that got to walk away with no punishment at all.
1.) Definitions: Deprecated: express disapproval of Insurgents: an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict Rend: tear something into two or more pieces Wringing: squeeze and twist something to force liquid from it Unrequited: a feeling, especially love, not returned or rewarded Malice: the intention or desire to do evil; ill-will Borne: carried by; spread by Quotes: "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!” - book of Matthew, chapter 18, verse 7 “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” – book of Psalms, chapter 19, verse 9 2.) Lincoln claims that there is no reason for him to discuss the war. 3.)
Gardner’s ideas are too drastic and I believe he didn’t have enough support in his argument that his plans would actually decrease the murders in gang violence. To say that his thoughts on drugs are the missing piece to gang-violence; I agree with him one-hundred percent. Yet, to pinpoint on drugs as the only reason viciousness and violence happens in gangs, is almost too good to be true. Dan may as well fly off to Never-Never land, because those dreams aren’t ever coming true. First off, I would like to thank Gardner for his enlightening point of view, of how gang violence is heavily influenced by the whole drug trade and the black market that associates itself with it.
I should of known long before that this whole situation would blow up in my face. If it's one thing I do know is that no good comes from lying, that truth will stare you in the face like your relfection in the mirror. It wasn't just those people in the court room that I had to lie infront of, I lied before god. I had to stand infront of all those people, bold-face lying that Tom Robinson abused me. When I sat back down, shame and guilt came crashing down on me like a tonn of bricks.
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In Nathaniel Hawthorn's, The Scarlet Letter, Pearl is the symbol of sin and adultery as portrayed by society. She is the “living” scarlet letter that acts as a reminder to Hester of her sin. She is a unique child with traits that make the rest of the town believe she is the devil child. However she is also the connection that Hester and Dimmesdale have with one another, and the reason why they came out to the public. Pearl is the human
Because of the hubris, or hurtful, over bearing pride, of each of the characters, destruction descends upon them. Antigone’s destruction comes from her being to stubborn to back down, but Creon’s downfall comes from attempting to be just and right by enforcing the law. Since Creon acted as he thought right and just, then suffered tragedy because of an error he made, he displays the image of a tragic hero. Antigone is the law of the gods in her beliefs. She also holds her family above the laws of man.
Oedipus uses free will, although fate molds the result of the decisions he made. Oedipus is free and completely responsible for all the events that happen to him. The fact that Oedpius’ motives for killing his father, Laius, and marrying his mother, Jocasta, were unintentional, does not take away from the nefarious nature of the crime. When he rips his eyes out, Oedipus is accepts full responsibility of his acts and knew that he must be punished for his sins. Therefore, the last act of destruction was caused by Oedipus’ free will, but his fate came about because of the nature equivalent exchange – one must give in order to