Comparing Forgiveness In Scarlet Letter And The Grapes Of Wrath

But, Jocasta refutes this by attempting to persuade to Oedipus to, “Listen, please listen to me! Do not do this!.” (line 1030) Jocasta desires to delay the grief that will soon be put upon Oedipus and herself by urging him not to send for the shepherd. Oedipus desires to find out the truth about himself, as he aclaims, “Humble though it may be, I want to know it.” (line 1043) Even if the messenger and the shepherd both tell the same tale, Oedipus would rather accept his fate good or bad. Oedipus is ready to reach his greatness, to achieve this he learns the painful truth that his mother is also his wife and that he has murdered his father. “Oh, oh, then everything has come out true/Light, I shall not look on you again/I have been born where I should not be born/I have married where I should not marry/I have killed whom I should not kill; now all is clear.” (line 1144-8) When he accepts the truth Oedipus takes the responsibility for his father’s, mother’s, and the god’s action by stabbing himself in the eyes so that he is now unable to see. Oedipus chose to sacrifice himself so that Thebes would be replenished, and rid of the sickness of the plague. This act of complete destruction to Oedipus emotionally, ultimately led to him becoming a prophet, and achieving his peak of

Forgiveness has a different context depending on where the person is from or what he believes. Religion places a great emphasis on the view of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not just practiced by saints and not only benefits its recipients but have strong connection with person’s physical, mental and spiritual health. It plays a great role in the health of families, communities and nations. Forgiveness provides common ground for love, acceptance, harmony and true happiness Most spiritual and religious leaders of the world will agree that forgiveness of oneself and others is one way to clear the mind, heart and soul and may result in a feeling of increased peace and happiness.

2. According to the article, forgiveness is granting unconditionally grace to those who have cause suffering and pain and accepting what they did and not letting that affect the love they show to that person. Forgiveness is central for racial reconciliation because forgiveness is the first step of mending the relationship with others. It also allows God to do a work between the two groups. When there is forgiveness God can change hearts and create amazing things to happen out of tragedies.

Another aspect of the theme that was observed through references of blindness and sight is guilt and disgrace. From the beginning of the play, Sophocles establishes the theme of guilt which can be seen throughout the play, as Oedipus tries to find the person who was guilty for the murder of King Laius. His search to find the guilty individual leads him to the truth which is that he murdered King Laius, who was his father, and that he married his mother Jocaste. After finding this out, he enters an epiphany of guilt and shame as he recognizes this morbid fact. He says after blinding himself “If I had eyes, I do not know how I could bear the sight of my father, when I came to the house of Death,

Upon unearthing of the truth of his birth from the shepherd, Oedipus cries out, “O god all come true, all burst to light! O light now let me look my last on you! I stand revealed at last cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands”. (631). Oedipus now knew that his fate had indeed come to pass, and feels cursed by it. Due to the crimes he committed, Oedipus punishes himself (free will) by stabbing his eyes with one of Jocasta’s brooches.

Most religions are in support of forgiveness. Yet, the circumstances for permitting forgiveness vary across religions. Religions other than Christianity advocate forgiveness under certain conditions. As in forgiving someone can only be done if certain amends are made by the offender. Christian believers are more autonomous in the support of

Oedipus doesn’t realize the personal consequences his hunt for the murderer will have for him, and his loyalty to the truth is based on his ignorance. His pride, ignorance and unrelenting quest for the truth ultimately contributed to his destruction. An example is when Oedipus was told [after threatening Tiresias], that he was responsible for the murder of Laius. He became enraged and called the old oracle a liar. However, Oedipus thought he could outsmart the gods, but in fact, his every action moved him closer to the prophesy becoming a reality. Upon discovery of the truth of his birth from the herdsman, Oedipus cries, “O god all come true, all burst to light!/O light now let me look my last on you!/I stand revealed at last cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands”. (631). Oedipus knew that his fate had indeed come to pass and feels cursed by it. Oedipus was guilt, of killing his father and marrying his mother. He punishes himself for the sins he committed by gouging out his eyes. The true sin is when he attempts to raise himself to the level of the gods by trying to escape his fate. Oedipus is accepting the full burden of his acts and knows that he must be punished for his sins. Therefore, this last act of gouging out his eyes was the result of Oedipus’ free will and his tragic fate came about because every sin must

Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, and Roger Chillingworth all committed sins that needed forgiveness. Nonetheless , only Hester found what they all sought after. Forgiving themselves and others to receive forgiveness prevails as a major struggle and for Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, that struggle ends in sad deaths. For Hester however, that struggle ends in a righteous redemption from her sin.

In this case, Oedipus has a certain prophecy that he needs to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Doing so, he can break the curse on Thebes and he will not be shamed upon for being a king and letting his city fall. Oedipus was trying to avoid the absurd prophecy by leaving his adopted parents and living a life on his own. But, on his journey, Oedipus killed his father and married his mother. Oedipus believed they were strangers until Creon explained everything. The love of his life Jocasta, was revealed to be his birth mother. He had fulfilled his prophecy without intention. Jocasta could not take the stressful humiliation and life she had just taken on, so she committed suicide. When Jocasta's death occurred, Oedipus was filled with sorrow and decided he couldn't dare show go out in the world knowing what he just did. So Oedipus unpinned the golden brooches from the robe Jocasta was hanging in, and stabbed his eyes repeatedly while pleading “they will never see the crime I have committed or had done upon me! Dark eyes, now in the days to come look on forbidden faces, do not recognize those who those you long for.” On page 516 lines 192-196, this shows his unhappy fate from the hardships in life.

Atonement, means satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury; amends (NA. The definition). From Oedipus the King, we know that Oedipus shows atonement to his transgression, which is about his oracle that makes him kill his father and marry his mother without noticing. There are several acts also show atonement in the play, such as Oedipus choose to stab his eyes instead of to ask for death. Next, in the sequel Oedipus at Colonus, we can find atonement from what we learned about Oedipus’ action toward to transgression in Oedipus the King even the author Sophocles does not often mention the theme directly. In addition, different with Oedipus the King, many people in the play show forgiveness toward to Oedipus’ atonement. Atonement is one of the significant themes in Oedipus at Colonus that affects many of Oedipus’ actions and others’ reactions that can be found in

The relationship between Dimmesdale and Hester in The Scarlet Letter demonstrates that forgiveness allows individuals to heal their lives and emotional wounds. When Arthur Dimmesdale exclaims that he would not forgive Hester for hiding Roger Chillingworth’s true identity for seven years, Hester replied, “Thou shalt forgive me! Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive” (Hawthorne 133). By receiving forgiveness and compassion from another sinner, Hester had the capability to forgive herself for her own iniquities.

The conclusion of any book proposes an outstanding question, the Scarlet Letter questions the condition of forgiveness regarding the characters. Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale inhabit forgiveness, however, it does not envelope Roger Chillingworth. Foremost, in order to attain forgiveness, you must take responsibility for what you’ve done. Perceiving this, Pearl and her parents, kick-started their trek to genuine, authentic forgiveness.

     Oedipus, on the other hand, was not given such an easy decision. While gifted with an outward sense of sight, he lacked the knowledge of his own sinful actions - his hamartia, so to speak. Oedipus was seeing to others, but blind to himself. As he fled from Corinth, fearing a prophecy he received from an oracle, Oedipus showed complete blindness to the inevitability of his fate. The murder of his father, Laius, and the subsequent marriage to this mother, Jocasta, further elucidate the extent of Oedipus’ blindness; blind in deed, reason, and consequence. Tragically, Oedipus’ anagnorisis occurs simultaneously with his mother’s/wife’s suicide. With a heart full of despair and a pair of newly opened eyes, Oedipus makes his transformation complete as he exchanges his limited physical eyesight for the spiritual sight possessed by Teiresias. With this being done, Oedipus also seals his fate – he no longer can serve evil,

As Creon leaves, Oedipus decides to pursue the rumors that he is the killer in order to find out the truth and hopefully, silence them. He begins asking his wife about the appearance of Laius and details of the attack, and the more he probes the more he understands that he was the killer of Laius. Oedipus is overwhelmed and responds to his wife’s questions with “o wife, I fear that I have said too much.)(47). His blindness has begun to end and Oedipus begins to understand his entire life. Oedipus still clings to the chance that the shepherd will tell a different story that will prove his innocence, but when the shepherd confirms the story, Oedipus yell “Alas! All out! All is known, no more concealment.”(58). Oedipus comes to the brutal realization that he was the killer and that he cannot hide from the truth because the shepherd validated the story. When he retreats to the palace he finds Jocasta dead and in order to end his suffering he pokes out his eyes. The servant watching describes his action: “No longer see those they should have never seen, nor see, unseeing, those he longed to see, henceforth seeing nothing but night.”(61). In this moment Oedipus comes back to the time where he made fun of the prophet. He is blind as well now, but he can see the truth even though he cannot physically see. Again light/dark symbolism can bee seen in Oedipus’s action he puts himself in the physical dark because he has