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    ‘The play‚ Macbeth‚ explores the effects of guilt and evil.’ Discuss. William Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Macbeth‚ explores many different themes including loyalty‚ betrayal‚ ambition but is it the powerful theme of evil and the consequent guilt that have the most devastating effects on the play’s protagonist‚ Macbeth and his loyal wife. Shakespeare’s language and imagery constantly reinforce the theme of evil. The opening scene introduces the themes of evil and disorder as the three powerful hags

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    Runner by Khaled Hosseini‚ showed the struggle with guilt that ruined Amir along with his childhood‚ but also showed he still could have the potential to make the right choice and turn his life around. Amir from a little boy was always suffering of guilt‚ of what he had not done to save Hassan. Amir had never been able to forgive himself until he started taking steps towards redemption. Amir faced the struggles to accept what he had done and the guilt that tortures him inside everyday of his life. Amir

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    In summation‚ throughout “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe personifies the narrator’s guilt as such a thing that slowly deteriorates the mind and opens a door to moral insanity. Between the lines of this Gothic tale Poe uses the continuous beating heart as a symbol for the narrator’s inescapable and eternal guilt. Once the narrator awakened the old man‚ the beating heart grew to such a volume that he had no choice but to kill him. However after committing the senseless crime the beating heart prevailed causing

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    Running head: CASE STUDY 3.3: SAKS FIFTH AVENUE Case Study 3.3: Saks Fifth Avenue Liberty University 13 September‚ 2009 Abstract The Saks Fifth Avenue case study concentrates on the human aspects of internal controls. Of note are Saks’ zero-tolerance policy of employee theft‚ anti-harassment policy and complaint procedure. Also‚ the case study highlights control activities in a major retail store. Finally‚ it questions what an auditor’s role is concerning employee’s work environment.

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    A Sign for Sin Throughout The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the effects of sin and guilt on the mind‚ body‚ and soul of Hester and Dimmesdale are revealed through imagery and symbolism. Hester and Dimmesdale are living in the tormented realm of social stigma inflicted by carrying around sin and guilt in different ways. For example‚ in The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester remains beautiful and composed on the outside throughout her punishment‚ while her body and poker face are not affected. Dimmesdale

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    The Tell-Tale Heart Guilt

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    Jesse Puttarat Mrs. Samora LA 8: Per 4 13 March 2017 The Tell-Tale Heart Have you ever gotten that feeling of guilt after doing something? Have you ever done something that you regret? Would you go insane from your actions? Would you be able to live on knowing what you’ve done was a terrible thing? What would you do? In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ he writes about a person who gets driven into insanity due to an old man’s “vulture eye”. He starts the story with the narrator

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    straight‚ “full of scorpions is [his] mind” (Shakespeare‚ 3.2.38). He uses the metaphor of scorpions of King Duncan’s murder‚ constantly stinging his thoughts and poisoning his mind with thoughts of more killing. After the king’s death‚ Macbeth feels guilt for what he has done‚ first being unable to keep his crime out of mind in case someone were to discover he is the culprit. Not only him‚ but his accomplice and wife starts to realize what she has done and it entered her subconscious sleepwalking and

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    Gary Soto Guilt Essay

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    Gary Soto 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

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    asks the crowd‚ “You all did love him once‚ not without cause: What cause withholds you then‚ to mourn for him?” (III.ii.101-102). With this question‚ Antony creates a feeling of guilt within the audience by indirectly saying that there is no reason for them to suddenly hate the man they all adored. This feeling of guilt helped Antony win the audience over because they felt like they believed Caesar to be ambitious and selfish way too quickly and easily.

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    O Brien's Guilt Analysis

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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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