Category: Guilt

As a single mother of two, the mom guilt is an all-too-familiar feeling. From managing a clean house, teaching kids about my Ethiopian culture, helping them with their homework regularly and driving them after school while still trying to excel in my career and maintain my sanity at the same time. There are hundreds of…

Throughout our lives we have done many things that we are not proud of, some may say that those experiences make us a better person and others say that those experiences still haunt them today. In the story The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, The main character in the story feels guilty for…

Imagine taking a daily stroll down the street and witnessing something unexpected: a bully in action. As a witness to this terrible incident, the immediate thought is to intervene, but the physical response is to ignore and avoid the situation. This is the exact dilemma the seventh man faced in the story ‘The Seventh Man’.…

Good Morning everyone and welcome to todays rehearsal of Macbeth. Now, Megan, firstly Id like to congratulate you on earning the role of Lady Macbeth, I am more than confident that you will execute this play in flying colours. I am sure most of you are familiar with the play thanks to your Year 12…

Guilt appears as a key theme in Macbeth, presented as a dire consequence of heinous acts by Shakespeare. Guilt is shown through its link with the motif sleep, the appearance of Banquo’s ghost and the recurring mention of the Macbeths’ inability to wash the blood of their crimes from their hands. They construct their own…

Guilt has the power to inspire a persons motives and shape who they are at their core. In 2003 Khaled Hosseini wrote the moving and powerful novel The Kite Runner which has a major focus on guilts intense power. Throughout The Kite Runner characters use their guilt as the driving force of their actions as…

We all go through a challenge in life because without a challenge thered be no reason to keep going toward your future (Twain put #). This statement in Mark Twains, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, prepares the readers for the universe they are about to enter, with differences and so much more, while reading this…