highest degree of remorse? (Prometheus & Oedipus) Everybody has to be responsible for what they have done‚ and the inescapable fate would give a rise to a tragic ending. Compare to different tragedies‚ some of them would exhibit more remorse from audience about its tragic heroes. Two of the great tragedies are Oedipus Rex‚ by John Bennett and Moira Kerr and Prometheus‚ by Rex Warner. The character Oedipus in the tragedy Oedipus Rex definitely exhibits the highest degree of remorse from audiences
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killed a person who was just trying to help anyone he could. Child soldiers should be prosecuted for their war crimes as if they themselves were official war soldiers. These children should be held accountable for their actions because they show no remorse for their actions‚ they have been doing this since a very young age‚ and the lack of consequences can teach their commanders that using children is a safe way for them to carry out vicious attacks. There are many children fighting in war today‚
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work such as Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ Introspection reveals something about a person to themselves and the audience. Although the monster of Frankenstein killed he is still a good person because he shows compassion‚ friendliness‚ and through remorse for the bad things that he had done; much of this had been shown through introspection Also‚ the monster had no control of him when he committed murder‚ therefore he is good even though he committed murder. The monster shows that he is good and not
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displays feelings of remorse and guilt towards the end of the play. Lady Macbeth is not truly evil because the evil she portrays is a facade; initially Lady Macbeth calls upon evil spirits because she wants to be evil then guilt causes her to kill herself. Lady Macbeth is not truly evil because in Macbeth‚ the evil person she portrays is a facade. She has call on spirits to take everything feminine away from
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The psychology of serial killers is a very intriguing yet a frightening topic‚ which has caused an abundant amount of interest. The thought of a human committing such atrocious crimes without feeling remorse has puzzled the average human being for centuries. There have been many theories surrounding the cause of killings‚ including the biological trait theory‚ criminological theory‚ and the psychodynamic theory (Blair‚ 2003; Yang‚ Raine‚ Colletti‚ 2005). An emphasis upon abuse during pre-adolescent
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that Montresor acted out of self- righteousness‚ one cannot conclude such due to the lack of credibility that can be accounted to him and his malice. Montresor is an unreliable‚ malicious narrator who shows to have contrasting feelings of guilt and remorse towards his crime against killing Fortunato. Montresor‚ through his own telling of the events‚ showed not only that he is not accountable for credibility but he also showed that his main motif to kill Fortunato was enviousness. Perhaps the most
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so that he can suffer like how he did. “They should suffer like how I did‚”as Dantes quotes throughout the film. After devising a few of tricks Dantes ambushes Villefort and gets him arrested. Villefort feels convicted once he has been seized and remorses incarcerating Dantes. Ultimately‚ Dantes is penitent for Villefort as another soul is in agony. Regarding Fernard Mondego‚ Dantes is hysterical about Mondego as he has
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Although “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe contains only two characters‚ the personalities of these individuals are extremely intriguing. Montresor‚ the more interesting of the two characters‚ displays qualities that would easily justify labeling the man a psychopath. According to an author for the New York Times‚ Montresor could quite possibly be the most insane character Poe has ever created‚ stating: “In his tales of Gothic horror‚ Edgar Allan Poe gave the world a fine collection of
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"The fury of demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer"(308). This was the turning point of the man’s character. He proceeds to cut one of Pluto’s eyes out from it’s socket. As the cat recovered from his wound the men felt little remorse. His evil deed had toughened his soul. Pluto healed from his viscous wound but also keeping his distance from the man‚ rightfully so. After a while‚ this angered the man to a more extreme temper‚ "to offer violence to its own nature-to do wrong
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generally known as the ‘’hero’’ of For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ the fascists and everyone else whom he is fighting against are themselves the protagonists and victims. Their crimes of morality are present through their premeditated attacks‚ their lack of remorse‚ and the amount of violence Robert Jordan and his allies generate. Hemingway writes a story that takes us through the journey of Robert Jordan and his allies in Segovia‚ Spain. Throughout the novel‚ we are taken step-through-step on how they plan
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