first- hand‚ and those born after the war‚ the ‘second generation’. This relationship is troubled‚ for several reasons. Firstly‚ after Michael learned about the atrocities of Hanna‚ his opinion of her changed. Secondly‚ Michael tries to relieve his guilt for loving Hanna. Thirdly‚ both Hanna and Michael avoid being confronted with happened in the WWII. Throughout the story‚ Michael is confronted with new and disturbing information about Hanna’s past‚ which causes him to see her and their relationship
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stealing a large amount of money‚ and the schizophrenic motel owner Norman Bates‚ both of whom must deal with the guilt and surveillance as consequences of their actions in the film. Hitchcock establishes his message by going beyond the parameters of a conventional horror film‚ leaving the audience shocked with his twisted mysterious plot. The audience was not only able to feel the guilt of the protagonists through close-ups of the camera‚ but also feel the surveillance aspect shown through the lens
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Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood in MacBeth to represent treason‚ guilt‚ murder and death. These ideas are constant throughout the book. There are many examples of blood representing these three ideas in the book. Blood is mentioned throughout the play and mainly in reference to murder or treason. The first reference to blood is in MacBeth’s soliloquy in Act 2‚ Scene 1‚ Lines 33-61‚ when Macbeth sees the bloody dagger floating in the air before him. Also in this soliloquy on line 46 he sees
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In Twentieth Century Interpretations‚ John C. Gerber affirms‚ “A sense of guilt brings loneliness‚ and few have been able to show as well as Hawthorne how private and bitter loneliness can be...Hawthorne also indicates that guilt repressed is far more devastating in its effects than guilt openly acknowledged...” In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the protagonist‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ committed a sin of adultery but he publicly confessed his role in the indiscretion. The fact that
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Comparative burger The authors of Macbeth and The laboratory also have different ways of portraying their characters to be disturbed. One way they do this is that one of the characters feel guilt whereas the other finds some sort of joy from what she is doing. One way Shakespeare highlights Lady Macbeth to be disturbed is in Act 5 Scene 1. This is when Lady Macbeth says “The smell of blood is still there. All the perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten this little hand” This quote is very important
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Dialogue on the threshold and diatribe: construction mechanisms of the individual ’s self-consciousness / Diálogo no limiar e diatribe: mecanismos de construção da autoconsciência do sujeito Aurora Gedra Ruiz Alvarez* Lílian Lopondo** ABSTRACT This paper is about the dialogue on the threshold whose origins are in the Socratic dialogue and the diatribe (a dialogued internal gender)‚ both understood as privileged mechanisms in the construction of the main character of Dostoevski´s novel
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The human mind is difficult to understand as every human possesses his/her own individual thought rituals at different levels of complexities. From a psychological approach the point(s) to get across are to reveal the revelation of its author’s mind and personality. In other words‚ how the literature is linked with the author’s mental and emotional characteristics. Today‚ psychology has been introduced in most everything. Before the field of Psychology was introduced an American author‚ Edgar Allan
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repressed sin destroys the soul while openness and honesty sets a soul free. Hester was not burdened with the internal guilt that consumed her “fellow sinner”‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ because she had to wear her sin openly on her chest‚ forcing her to confront her sin and the stigma that comes along with it. By confronting her sin‚ she was able to accept what she had done and be freed from the guilt that comes with secrecy and represented sin. Her freedom allowed her to be the least internally burdened of the
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Hosseini’s novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ guilt‚ atonement of sins and redemption all show that no matter what a person’s sin may be‚ he or she will always be able to atone for that sin and find redemption. Amir’s sins are far worse than anything most people will ever go through‚ yet he is able to atone for his sins‚ let go of his guilt thus‚ finding redemption. Even before Amir was born‚ sin would be bound to him. Hayes even goes so far as to say that Amir’s guilt and sin is inherited from his father
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expressing guilt. Guilt to Freud is seen as something that has a negative impact. If someone is full of too much guilt then they will negatively impact society and society will have a harder time functioning. He goes on to say that guilt is relieved through sin. He writes “they claim to redeem mankind from this sense of guilt‚ which they call sin”(Freud pg.83). Freud discusses Christianity by stating that the sense of guilt you feel can be redeemed through death. Freud further explains guilt by using
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