of his kind comes knocking at the door‚ you will open it." -From an essay signed "A sociopath in prison." The character of Estella from Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations" is a sociopath. Identical to 3% of our population‚ Estella has no conscience‚ or any true emotional attachment to another human being. Dickens adds fuel to the ’nature versus nurture’ debate on sociopaths‚ as Estella’s sociopathy is apparently taught to her by Miss. Havisham. The identification of sociopaths is difficult
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Waterfront‚” we see that to some extent that people do prefer security to justice. This film focuses on the balance between our moral conscience‚ and our need for survival. It explores how much we are influenced by our own need for survival compared to our sense of justice. Kazan‚ utilizes characters like Terry‚ to explore the limits of human tolerance and the conscience. He depicts a world shrouded in a blanket of fog and mist‚ which masks the criminality‚ corruption and immorality. Kazan uses this
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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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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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The Pie Analysis Gary Soto recalls a time when he was six years old and stole an apple pie. Soto s use of contrast‚ diction and imagery breathe life into his work and give a unique perspective into the mind and motive of a guilty six year old. In Soto s work‚ a reader is impressed by the vast amount of vivid contrasts to illustrate a point‚ not only from a child s view but also from a religious one‚ too. Soto s first sentence is‚ I knew enough about hell to stop me from stealing. I was holy in
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good to work under the taskmaster to whom one feels accountable. Even when one has no human taskmaster‚ one falls back upon the idea of God. But far better it is to work under the eye of one’s own conscience. Conscience tells us what to do and what not to do; and he who follows the dictates of conscience has no burden on his mind. Thirdly‚ some amount of humility helps to relieve the mental uneasiness of one ’who wears
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instability. This writing displays the mental state of the central character and as well as the repercussions of the terrible act he committed. In the short story‚ the unnamed character exhibits signs of a psychotic disorder and the effects of a guilty conscience are displayed.
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Act III questions Read the exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia carefully. Why is he so bitter towards her? When Hamlet sees Ophelia coming‚ he calls her‚ “The fair Ophelia!” and speaks fondly of her. Though as soon as she starts speaking to him in a formal way because she knows she’s being watched and returns the gifts to Hamlet‚ he realises something is up and they’re being watched. He feels tricked and trapped and so he asks Ophelia what she seems to be‚ “Are you honest?... Are you fair?”. Hamlet
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conflict in “The Inheritor” reiterates the theme that the choice a person makes based on moral obligation may seem unreasonable. The man could have been killed but he felt he had to try to rescue the ewe from the dingo. Because he was true to his conscience he felt satisfied with his choice. In “Tell-Tale Heart” the conflict is different but the theme is the same. The conflict was whether or not he was going to live with the guilt of murdering someone or to follow his moral obligation to tell
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used to represent his past sins. “He perhaps‚ like other mortals‚ has sorrows enough to be typified by a black veil.” This quotation is an indication that the minister is struggling with his guilt and he cannot come to terms with it. His guilty conscience for past misdeeds are essentially the basis of his problems‚ but he still wears it in order to express his idea In “The Minister’s Black Veil‚” the presence of symbolism helps to show the recurring motif in the story: hidden sin. Wearing this black
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