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    heartfelt response to his wrongdoing that draws a positive connection from the reader. Although his sins are indeed grievous‚ Amir nevertheless remains likable because he ultimately has a strong moral conscience; he seeks redemption and he endures intense suffering in order to right his wrongs. Amir’s conscience torments him because he has a clear sense of what is right and wrong. After leaving Kabul‚ Amir continuously has nightmares about Hassan. “I woke up with a scream trapped in my throat” (Hosseni

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    Mahboob A. Khawaja‚ PhD “The hell of human suffering‚ evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity‚ who have most deeply sinned against it‚ were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them‚ what wrought moral evil and cruelty‚ treason to truth and progress‚ was not at all in their intentions‚ in their purpose‚ in their personal character‚ but in their opinions.” - (Robert Briffault. The Making of Humanity

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    Herman Kermit Warm‚ they stop at a town‚ meeting a tailor and shopkeeper- an honest man able to sleep clear of conscience. Although the brothers actively participate in their profession‚ and Eli is primarily the one concerned about his morality‚ both brothers feel a degree of guilt‚ creating a heavy conscience and a want for a new life. The brothers are confronted with the idea of conscience when Eli states that shop-keeping “struck [him] as a restful industry. [He’d] wager that old man sleeps well

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    Sophocles - Antigone

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    Antigone portrays human emotions and consequences that follow two distinct choices. We can broaden the spectrum by saying that Creon represents public policy and Antigone represents individual conscience. According to E.S. Shuckburgh we must examine which is more important “state law or divine conscience”. (Shuckburgh xviii) Antigone is a story about two people who choose to make choices that each are passionate about and the consequences that follow. I can argue that the choice made

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    time. Also it reveals how dark that age is and how many people play hypocritical roles while hurting others dramatically without noticing. From psychoanalytic lens‚ that author describes all the un-human natures in order to suggest the fully human conscience. Also it will reveal his own way to portray romantic objects and cherish human’s kind nature. Question 1: will the result of martyrdom purify Hester’s soul while she is fully guilty and regret in chapter 5? (80) Question 2: What is

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    Macbeth Analysis

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    disastrous acts. In this line‚ Macbeth admits that the only reason to kill Duncan is his ambition‚ which seems an insufficient reason for the murder. At this point of the play‚ Macbeth has not fully lost his conscience yet‚ and he does not want to kill Duncan. However‚ his ambition overpowers his conscience‚ and he later on kills Duncan. The transition of Macbeth from an innocent man to a villain emphasizes the destruction brought by unchecked ambition. Readers can tell that Macbeth is very weak psychologically

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    youth‚ and possessing perpetual values associated with a moral and ethical conscience. Hamlet welcomed inevitable doom into his life‚ through procrastination of acquiring revenge. “Now might I do it pat‚ now he is praying…up‚ sword and know thou a more horrid hent‚ When he is drunk asleep‚ or in his rage‚…” this soliloquy by hamlet highlights his inner turmoil on whether to‚ accept or reject the thoughts of his inner conscience. He wants the man that caused his fathers unnatural death to serve eternity

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    My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" Hamlet’s overly intellectual mind inhibits him from taking decisive action and he concedes this in two very important soliloquies . First in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy‚ Hamlet concludes‚ "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all/ And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought" While being exiled to England‚ hamlet thinks his procrastination is a result of " some craven scruple/ Of thinking too precisely on

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    question. No he doesn’t seem to show much emotion‚ but doesn’t that in a way seem understandable when you think about all he’s done and seen? If he were to show emotion‚ he would go crazy. I know I would. Though he does seem to have a conscience‚ somehow‚ somewhere‚ deep down inside he is trapped. Trapped inside of the mess he’s gotten himself into. I think he knows to that there is no way out‚ so he remains as this man he has pretended to be for so many years. Howard writes his story

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    Gary Soto Guilt Essay

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    Post AssessmentGuilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway -Isabelle Holland. Guilt is something we create for ourselves. In the passage‚ Gary Soto emphasizes how guilty‚ paranoid‚ and shameful he felt in his inner conscience after stealing an apple pie. He expresses his guilt‚ shame‚ and paranoia by describing his outer self‚ his inner self‚ and the people around him. How Soto describes his inner self emphasizes on how fearful he is. The great sense of paranoia that

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