...Shakespeare to develop the theme of guilt in key scenes in both Macbeth and Hamlet. Guilt is defined as the remorseful awareness of having done something wrong. It was not unusual for Shakespeare to feature a lot of conflicted emotion in his plays, a favourite emotion for Shakespeare to right was guilt and therefore features heavily in his plays; Hamelt and Macbeth included. The use of guilt is often used to make the audience feel sympathy for the character or to change their perspective on the character as a whole; it is also used to drive the plot of the play and to create an atmosphere within the play. Macbeth showcases a lot of guilt to change the tone and atmosphere of the scene and to show how guilt affects religion and beliefs. For example in Act 2 Scene, after Macbeth has killed King Duncan, the audience finds him struggling with the guilt he feels. Shakespeare shows Macbeths guilt through his inability to say ‘Amen’ which would have previously come easily from him. But after killing Duncan Macbeth believes God has turned his back on him because he committed the biggest sin- Regicide- and have gone against the divine right of kings and so would no longer be under the protection of God. Furthermore, in his mini-soliloquy in Act 3 Scene 1 Macbeths says the murder of King Duncan “put rancours in the vessel of my peace”. This shows he is being tormented with a constant reminder of his crime and sins and this can be perceived as guilt coming out by the audience. Another...
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...Abortion – just hearing the word instantly angers many people. Abortion is a highly controversial topic that is usually only looked at from the point of view of murder; many do not take into consideration of how emotionally damaging the decision is to the mother. With women’s rights and the evolution of people’s thinking abortions are becoming more tolerable; still controversial but more tolerable than before. Some people see that ultimately it is the mothers’ decision for it is her sacrifice to have a child and not theirs. Abortion should not be as controversial as it because not every person that becomes pregnant can properly care for the child due to lack of funds. It is not cold-blooded murder; a mother does not take the decision lightly to abort her unborn child and society needs to be more understanding of how the mother feels before passing their judgment. The poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks expresses some of the feelings that a would-be mother endures when facing the difficulty of aborting her unborn child and analyzing my research on the emotional burden women face when having an abortion sheds light on the subject and helps me better understand what Gwendolyn Brooks is expressing in her poem. Abortion is never a decision that is made lightly. A would- be mother weighs out all her options before taking such a life changing decision. A mother realizes what her decision means; she realizes that she will never forget making the decision and never know what her baby...
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...depression, eating disorders, alcohol/drug abuse, sexual dysfunction, child abuse, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Studies show that 75 percent of women who have an abortion are more likely to die within a year than women who chose to carry throughout the term (El). Though, that may not seem like much but it does consist of many women who are unhappy with the decision that they chose to make. Sometimes it is not even the decision that the women wants to make, they do it because their boyfriend or husband do not want the child and they fear that if they would keep the child than it would only cause problems in their relationships. This then causes women to have more suicidal attempts because of their decision that they chose to make. The decision may not cause the mental affect until after a couple months down the road after the abortion has happened. “The first and most pivotal is the abortion itself, which in many cases is more traumatic than usual human experience. The second criterion is re-experience, which causes women to remember the specifics of the experience; this may even include hallucinations, and often are spurred on the anniversary of the event. The third criterion is Avoidance, which is spurred on by guilt. This means that the woman avoids all things that would remind her of the event. Women often become detached from others, and withdraw from relationships, and perhaps takes on a hard cold attitude toward others to avoid feeling love for them. At...
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...thing in it is the vengeance and guilt . in many scenes and all acts vengeance and guilt was two if not the most obvious trait in this whole play. but the three main reasons are all between two women and a man. These two women are Abigail who is the antagonist in this play and john proctors wife Elizabeth proctor. Also proctor felt guilty so he admitted that he did adultery with Abigail. and lastly the guilt that abigail must of had realizing that proctor was hanged from her doings even tho the whole objective for her was to get Elizabeth hanged not her crush, proctor. So the two main rivalries in this book are abigail and proctors wife, Elizabeth proctor. Abigail used to be proctors...
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...Marching backward. The women's march set back for women and liberty. The highly anticipated women's march on January 21 in D.C. states a reason to march as: "The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us " That only the last election cycle has woken up these women is a sign of a multitude of women's who are ignorant in political, social and economic knowledge. Making the march a women's affair only sets the dividing line between the sexes and shows men that women have not figured out the corruption in the political system, especially in the federal government. A variety of allegations during the heated election with accusations back and forth between the two ruling parties were laughable at...
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...chocoholic and women. People like to eat chocolate but they feel guilty. In most of the people point of views, Cadbury’s chocolate is seen as guilty. Therefore push the biscuits, with a combination biscuits women can still eat chocolate yet feeling less guilt. Cadbury’s ‘Thank you’ campaign is successful because Cadbury tried understand the consumers needs really well and consumer’s guilt by pushing the biscuits to reduce the guilt. 2. The case mentions that the advertising campaign, even though aimed at Consumer, turned out to be an effective tool in marketing to retailer. What do you think are the reason behind this success? If the advertising campaign turned out to be successful, it will be benefit retailer as an effective tool in marketing. Cadbury as a well-established brand will attract more people attentions after the advertising campaign for the new product. Therefore more people will head down retailer for the new products that will drive traffic to the retail store. Once customers are in the shop, this is the best chance to influence customers to purchase more what they intend to purchase. What most retailers intention are to associate with popular brands. 3. How did Cadbury make use of the ‘chocoholic’ segment to design its advertising campaign Women as mentioned, like to eat chocolate or sweet stuff. By they also want to have sexy, slim and healthy body. Cadbury used the emotional to sell the products. Target the woman as they are much more emotions...
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...There is no more powerful drug as guilt, as the very feeling of it alters the personality of men and women resulting in losing one’s self. The Tragedy of Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s play shows how guilt plays with Lady Macbeth’s character as her guilt develop to grow. Her guilt causes her to sleepwalk and talk, deteriorate her mind and leads to her own demise. Lady Macbeth’s guilt start to become more visible in Act 5, Scene 1, line 28. As she begins to roam around the castle with her candle and speaks to herself "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.” This indicates that her guilt is causing her to become very stressful as she heavily grieves over about her assisting Macbeth’s assassination to King...
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...talked about in two fields, the realization of the women and the appearance of the femininity and homosexual of the men. Besides, the effects on people after the change of male role would be presented clearly and logically, mainly in three angles, the workplace and society competition, the sense of inferiority of the men and the guilt of the females to the children. Firstly, the traditional male role is really very familiar with the majority of people all over the world. The conventional pattern of female and male role in many countries was that nine tenths of the women stayed at home every day taking care of the children and their husband and doing some housework like cooking, washing clothes, this sort of thing during their whole lives. They hardly never think about their career and did the same thing as the men did. For men, they had to earn a lot of money to support the living of their families and turned over almost all of their income to the households (Tiger, 2000). At that time, both women and men thought it was an equal and right division of responsibility of them. Meanwhile, people used to that and enjoyed the traditional pattern to some extent. In recent years, the conventional sex role has changed and when it comes to the causes of the change of gender role, the first one would be proposed could be the realization of women, which is the start point of the reversing gender role. Due to the boredom and tiredness of women towards house working and looking after their...
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...Florence Kelley, a U.S. social worker, gives a speech before the convention of The National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia addressing child labor and how it could be outlawed if woman suffrage was passed as legislature. Kelley was an advocate for women gaining the right to vote and for children being forbidden to work in harsh conditions. She uses logical appeal and guilt people to show how child labor is a practice that can be prohibited were women to have the right to vote. The author evokes an emotion of guilt upon her audience by stating how children are working in conditions that are harsh and unsafe. Florence Kelley refers to the children and their predicament by describing, “ Tonight while we sleep several thousand...
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...treatment to that of married mothers in Australian public hospitals. In my essay I will be discussing the false distinction between capacities of young unwedded mothers to raising their children compared to the married financially secure mothers, along with analysing the shame and guilt felt by the mothers of losing their baby’s with the national apology trying to restore their lost dignity. The Oxford English Dictionary describes dignity as the quality of being worthy or honourable; worthiness, worth, nobleness and excellence (Oxford Dictionary).During the time when forced adoptions in Australia were taking place, legislative changes emerged in the 1950s and consolidated in the 1960s enshrined the concept of adoption secrecy and the ideal of having a "clean break" from the birth mother. Adoption practices in Australia has undergone a great deal of change along with society's responses and views towards pregnancies outside of marriage and single motherhood. Until a section of legal, social and economic changes in the 1970s, unwed women who were pregnant were expected to give up their babies for adoption. The shame, guilt and silence that surrounded their pregnancies out of wedlock meant that these women were seen as unfit mothers. (Kenny et, al 2012). For many mothers the emotional and psychological damage of these policies stripped them of their own human dignity and will be felt for the rest of their lives....
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...treatment to that of married mothers in Australian public hospitals. In my essay I will be discussing the false distinction between capacities of young unwedded mothers to raising their children compared to the married financially secure mothers, along with analysing the shame and guilt felt by the mothers of losing their baby’s with the national apology trying to restore their lost dignity. The Oxford English Dictionary describes dignity as the quality of being worthy or honourable; worthiness, worth, nobleness and excellence (Oxford Dictionary).During the time when forced adoptions in Australia were taking place, legislative changes emerged in the 1950s and consolidated in the 1960s enshrined the concept of adoption secrecy and the ideal of having a "clean break" from the birth mother. Adoption practices in Australia has undergone a great deal of change along with society's responses and views towards pregnancies outside of marriage and single motherhood. Until a section of legal, social and economic changes in the 1970s, unwed women who were pregnant were expected to give up their babies for adoption. The shame, guilt and silence that surrounded their pregnancies out of wedlock meant that these women were seen as unfit mothers. (Kenny et, al 2012). For many mothers the emotional and psychological damage of these policies stripped them of their own human dignity and will be felt for the rest of their lives....
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...Anorexia and bulimia are metaphors of women’s psychological distress in the face of contradictory social expectations. Women now experience uncertainty in their social roles, with conflicting pressures to be successful in their careers and as wives and mothers. In order to feel good enough, women often feel they must be “superwoman.” In spite of changes in their social roles, women are still pressured to attain the social ideals of physical beauty. In an uncertain environment a woman with a shaky sense of self can at least hope to gain approval by being thin. Today, preoccupation with weight reflects a need to focus on the body for a tangible source of self-esteem and sense of control. Controlling the body has become a precarious substitute for real control in women’s lives. While giving voice to women’s protests, anorexia and bulimia fail to change the actual circumstances to deal with conflict. As such, anorexia and bulimia are veiled protests, ones that most often go unheard. Susie Orbach has said, “Women speak with their bodies”1. For many women the body is the arena to express dissatisfaction and unhappiness. It is the site of their struggles. Instead of transforming their real lives, their real problems, women attempt to transform their bodies. Women are promised success, happiness and control through attaining the ideal thin body. While many women feel more in control of their lives when they are controlling their food intake or feeling thin, this focus on weight is extremely...
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...How Shame Impacts Women and Their Self-Concept. Lindsey M. Watts Norfolk State University Introduction Women have historically had to fight for their rights. When we consider issues like voting, being able to own and inherit property, and work in a variety of jobs, women have struggled to have equal rights. Our society has grown significantly in the acceptance of women in most roles previously considered to be masculine. While equal pay is still an issue it is still better than it used to be. As women have moved into the arena of working outside of the home new issues have emerged. Historically, women have provided the majority of the nurturing and guidance that their families and children needed to thrive. Their self-concept was wrapped up in their success as a mother and a wife. In today’s society women face many new challenges. How to balance working outside of the home with their responsibilities as a mother and a wife has become the focus. This has created new social and community expectations for women. For many women, these new expectations create a tremendous amount of stress and trigger feelings of shame when they are not successful at juggling all the responsibilities. Etiology of Shame We all experience shame. It is a universal emotion. Brown (2007) recognized after interviewing many women, that the first step to understanding shame was to define it in terms we can all understand. “Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing...
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...When we do not realize that it is normal to feel scared, insecure, uncertain, and off centered with people we love, our minds begin to doubt the person and the relationship as a whole. It can be very onerous for many people to understand why a person would stay in an abusive relationship because leaving is a process. A person who is thinking about leaving an abusive relationship or actually leaving may feel gripped by fear of being alone, feeling very disappointed, unwanted, and lonely. Many women cannot leave their partner alone because they are very terrified of them. Abusive relationships, not only cause fear, but even guilt from the victim. Unfortunately, women are misled by their actions from the very beginning of the relationship until on down the line are filled with guilt, surprises, and downfalls! A man may feel guilty of his actions when he realizes that his woman is about to leave. Some victims take on guilt about the physical abuse they are receiving, as if they are somehow to blame. He starts by pleading and saying " I'm sorry baby" " I Didn't mean to do it!" "You made me do it" etc... he becomes very...
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...How Guilt is Portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird and Macbeth In 1623 William Shakespeare wrote his play Macbeth, 337 years later Harper Lee wrote her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Although the texts were written in entirely different eras and settings, both texts are similar in the theme of guilt. Guilt is a self-critical emotion that humans feel that compromises their sense of moral integrity. Guilt allows whoever is feeling this emotion to know that they have wronged another person or themselves and gone against their sense of responsibility or moral standards. In both Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the lead villains follow parallel paths with regard to their guilt, undertaking ill advised courses of actions which result not only in the undoing of the women in their lives, but also ultimately their own demise. Early on in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth the lead character Macbeth is at war with himself over what the correct course of action is, burdened by the Weird Sisters’ stating “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (I.iii.51), which leaves Shakespeare with the choice of taking Macbeth down the path of letting life play it’s course or taking matters into his own hands. Macbeth ultimately chooses to take matters into his own hands and kills King Duncan. This allows the play to follow the action plan of Macbeth instantly becoming king of Scotland, causing him to spend the rest of the play covering up his tracks. Similarly, in Harper...
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