Mariah Lindsey AP Literature & Composition Poetry Essay Final Draft December 16‚ 2012 As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about you‚ you will enter into the exciting process of becoming‚ as you should be‚ the author of your own life‚ the creator of your own possibilities. The theme of William Shakespeare sonnet # 18 “Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s day” is eternal love. Shakespeare compares his lover to summer‚ the most beautiful season of the year.
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According to the interview‚ O’Brien’s continuing guilt over his military service in a war he opposed and his anger about government deceit. He said: "I didn’t go to war as an innocent. I went to war knowing‚ at least convinced‚ that the Vietnam War was ill-conceived and morally wrong. That was my conviction. I didn’t go to war an innocent. I went to war a "guilt‚" that is to say "guilt" being a sort of weird noun. I was not an innocent‚ I was a "guilt." I knew that the war was wrong. I wasn’t a Henry
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Guilt and Confession Guilt is one of the many factors that helped shape today’s society to what it is today‚ and the same goes for the society of the 17th century. Guilt is the state of being responsible for the commission of an offense and the only cure for the feeling of being guilty is confessing to whomever you have harmed or wronged. In The Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathanial Hawthorn; there is a young woman named Hester Prynne who has been accused of committing adultery‚ she is being showcased
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As soon as the judge ruled and sentenced an adult woman to four years and 394 day of jail‚ many people outside the court were outraged. The adult lady killed a construction worker‚ while on her way to a party. The thing is she was driving drunk‚ and due to her drunkenness‚ she didn’t notice the “construction ahead” signs. As a result‚ she ran over a construction worker‚ who after being severely injured‚ didn’t survive. So you might be thinking that justice was made and that’s the end of it. Well
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Cited: Geddes‚ Gary. 20th Century Poetry & Poetics: Fourth Edition. Ontario: Oxford University Press Canada‚ 1996.
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Arthur Dimmesdale’s Guilt and Hypocrisy By Ashlyn R. Thomas In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gripping tale‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ a revered Puritan minister suffers from cowardly guilt and hypocrisy after he commits adultery in this novel staged in the seventeenth century. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ who hides himself in the shame of his lover‚ Hester Prynne‚ protects his reputation among the Puritan people. The scaffold‚ a public symbol of disgrace‚ contrasts with the pastor’s silent sin of adultery. When Hester
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and figures such as Jesus‚ Angel of God‚ and Grace of God (lines 14-15) even though the act of slavery is one of the most sinful systems in the eyes of these slaves and in the eyes of all decent human beings. Though a myriad of Lucille Clifton’s poetry is about survival‚ the people in the ships have barely survived‚ but more importantly‚ though many of them have not‚ a significant amount did despite the fetid‚ deadly‚ inhumane conditions. Lines 1-5 illustrate the terrible conditions of the ship
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Guilt‚ Duty‚ and Unrequited Love: Deconstructing the Love Triangles in James Joyce ’s The Dead and Thomas Hardy ’s Jude the Obscure "It ’s no problem of mine but it ’s a problem I fight‚ living a life that I can ’t leave behind. But there ’s no sense in telling me‚ the wisdom of the cruel words that you speak. But that ’s the way that it goes and nobody knows‚ while everyday my confusion grows." --New Order‚ Bizarre Love Triangle‚ from Substance‚ 1987 Most people who have
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sweeten this / little hand. Oh‚ oh‚ oh” (V.I.50-52). Lady Macbeth has become berserk from the murders she assisted in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ and she is attempting to wash imaginary blood off of her hands in her sleep‚ which represents her guilt. This quote is ironic due to Lady Macbeth taunting Macbeth in act II‚ scene II about when he was hysterical about Duncan’s blood on his hands. She tells Macbeth that a little water will wash off the blood‚ but now‚ she is struggling with cleaning imaginary
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For 20 years‚ I carried the guilt and shame of aborting a child at the age of thirteen. I was not aware that this decision would alter the course of my life forever. One morning‚ I cried “Father forgive me” for killing your child. I asked for forgiveness for many years‚ but this time was different. I felt God’s presence confirming that I had been forgiven and it was time to forgive myself. Since that day of redemption‚ I have been a licensed foster parent. For the past 3 years I have
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