How Did Joe Keller End His Life? Joe commits suicide because he can no longer live with the shame of what he’s done. The shocking revelation of what happened to Larry has brought home to him the consequences of his corruption. As such, he can no longer live with himself; his life is in utter
How Does Consciousness Affect Behavior? Consciousness seems especially useful for enabling behavior to be shaped by nonpresent factors and by social and cultural information, as well as for dealing with multiple competing options or impulses. It is plausible that almost every human behavior comes from a mixture of conscious and unconscious processing. What is the
How Did David Thoreau Believe People Should Deal With Unjust Laws? Thoreau declared that if the government required people to participate in injustice by obeying “unjust laws,” then people should “break the laws” even if they ended up in prison. “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,” he asserted, “the true place for a just
Does The Ghost Instruct Hamlet To Punish Claudius? The ghost exhorts Hamlet to seek revenge, telling him that Claudius has corrupted Denmark and corrupted Gertrude, having taken her from the pure love of her first marriage and seduced her in the foul lust of their incestuous union. What do ghost instructs do in Hamlet? (Hamlet
How Does Huck Finn Struggle With His Conscience? (Nelson) Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck battles with his conscience by first giving up and feeling sorry for himself, then deceiving himself by saying he will do what is right, and finally coming to terms with whether he is truly doing right or wrong. What
Who Said I Have Heard That Guilty Creatures Sit? Hamlet’s soliloquy comes in act 2 scene 2 of Hamlet, shortly after he has spoken with the players or actors, and just before he hatches his fiendish plan to try to determine the guilt of his uncle (which he comes up with towards the end of
What Does George Say Before He Shoots Lennie? What does George say before he shoots Lennie? What does George say to Lennie before shooting him? He tells Lennie that he is a bad man and that he deserves to die. He tells Lennie that he has no other choice but to shoot him since it’s
What Does Dimmesdale Chest Symbolize In The Scarlet Letter? What does Dimmesdale chest symbolize in The Scarlet Letter? The red mark on Dimmesdale’s chest represents adultery in the beginning, guilt in the middle, and pain and death in the end. The stressor that made Dimmesdale feel worse was Hester’s first husband Chillingworth. Why does Dimmesdale
Can Your Conscience Mislead You? Can your conscience mislead you? Early Christian writers such as St Augustine of Hippo and St Jerome appear to sincerely agree with the idea that one’s conscience is a responsible arbiter between right and wrong and is therefore reliable for making decisions. Is your conscience reliable? Early Christian writers such
Do Humans Know Right From Wrong? Do humans know right from wrong? Abstract. Psychological and neuroscience research both tell us that morality, our mental ability to tell right from wrong in our behaviors and the behaviors of others, is a product of evolution. Do people really know right from wrong? Most real people, in contrast,