Remorse

They could feel absurd amounts of remorse or none at all. Again, no one can make someone feel bad for killing someone, it just depends on the way a person’s brain works and how much empathy/sympathy they have. Some people have lots, while other have little. In addition, humans are more likely

characters go on a journey that changes their life, for the better or the worse, and in reality, it happens to many people too. Guilt is one of the most life changing characteristics of a person, and they can go from being careless to feeling great remorse. For example, a murder may kill many innocent people with no shame, but when law and order strikes back, he won’t feel the same behind the bars of regret. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is a dynamic character because she starts

Blood is often used to represent the essence of life; vital to the being. However, blood shed, especially in Macbeth, is used to symbolize the consequences of unchecked ambition and entitlement-guilt and remorse. Following the murder of Duncan, blood became a physical manifestation of Macbeth’s guilt. The imagery of blood throughout the play becomes more prominent as Macbeth becomes more entangled in his ambition and entitlement. Macbeth exposes the dark side of entitlement, leading to destruction

Although it is a natural part of life, accepting death is something that is challenging for any living creature to do. Humans beings, specifically, have evolved over millions of years to survive, and when faced with a moment where death is possible, humans naturally resist death. Dylan Thomas’s Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night specifies the reasoning behind human nature’s resistance to death. As a villanelle, one of the unambiguous literary devices in Dylan Thomas’s poem is the use of repetition;

guilt is a ubiquitous force that haunts the characters in the play. Reverend Hale, Mary Warren, Giles Corey, and John Proctor feel guilt and it motivates some of their behaviors.     Reverend Hale is a dynamic character who starts to show guilt and remorse further into the trials. His first mission in Salem was to condemn the devil in hoping that will bring Betty back. He believed Abigail and the girls were innocent. When Rebecca Nurse was brought to court, Hale starts to doubt his believes in the witch

human and the animal in us. Everyone has both human and animal within them that could emerge at any time. As for the Minotaur, he was mostly animal, but he was only doing what he could to survive. All of his wrongdoings cannot be made up for, his remorse would mean nothing. Even though he was just trying to survive, the human side of him should have influenced him not to eat the people that were sacrificed, but is he to blame? Even though everyone blamed the Minotaur what people failed to remember

most prominent murders in the first 3 acts: the slaying of Duncan and the assassination of Banquo. When Lady Macbeth is convincing her husband to murder the king, the reader is able to detect his hesitation to commit such a heinous crime. Also, the remorse Macbeth feels after he murders Duncan proves that he still possesses some of that honor and loyalty he originally held in such high regard. However, when Macbeth has Banquo killed he has changed into a cold and evil man. He, Macbeth, no longer clings

have no remorse after murdering someone, have a mental illness. This article reveals a story about a man who had killed someone and felt no remorse. The murder had been suffering a mental illness, which caused him to feel nothing. “The prosecution had argued that while Kosian was undoubtedly suffering a mental illness he was of sound mind at the time of the killings and was motivated by revenge...said his client had no remorse for the murders...” (Merhab, 1). Hamlet showed no remorse or guilt

Dickinson vs Whitman Two Poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are probably two of the most influential people in American poetry. They are regarded as the founders modern American poetry. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), for the time was breaking new ground with his diverse, energetic verse with regards to subject matter, form and style whether talking about overlooked objects in nature such as a single blade of grass or even our own hearing. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) while living a life of

croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th' effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait