Guilt In Nathan's Pride

In the book, “The Poisonwood Bible” there is a rather interesting character, named Nathan Price. The tone used to describe Nathan Price in the book is always related to his cruelty, oppressiveness and the devious way he acts throughout the book. The tone used by his wife and daughters throughout the novel produces the feeling that he is the main Antagonist in the book. Nathan is also extremely abusive against his wife and daughters. He is an extremist, a coward and a terrible preacher. His lack of knowledge about God and more importantly, life in general, cause everyone in the novel to despise him, especially his family. Nathan Price was so desperate about preaching, he decided to move from the United States to the Congo. This is ironic

Nathan Landeu is a Jewish man living in America with Sophie, very vulnerable young women. Nathan takes advantage of Sophie knowing that she needs him and will always love him. Towards the end of the book Stingo learns that Nathan suffers from a mental disease called schizophrenia. This disease causes voices in his head and him to act like a demon is possessing all of his thoughts. During world War 2 he was not allowed to join the military because of his mental disease, this made him sit back and watch thousands of people of his race die and actually made his disease even worse. In the book Stingo says “He was by now deathly afraid of Nathan and he pinned hungrily to be able to appeal to the police- for protection, if nothing else” (Styron 547). This is explaining to the audience that Nathan is a dangerous man and World war 2 has completely changed his state of mind.

The Catcher in the Rye is one of J. D. Salinger's world-famous books about the disgruntled youth. Holden Caulfield is the main character and he is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden separates the “phony” aspects of society, and the “phonies” themselves. Some of these “phony” people in his life are the headmaster whose friendliness depends on the wealth of the parents, and his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. This book deals with the complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Holden senses these feelings most of the time and is guilty about many things in

Although Nathan’s motives for forcing his family from 1950s urban America to the village Congo may be genuinely good, his ignorance

Guilt and shame haunt all three of the main characters in The Scarlet Letter, but how they each handle their sin will change their lives forever. Hester Prynne’s guilt is publicly exploited. She has to live with her shame for the rest of her life by wearing a scarlet letter on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, on the other hand, is just as guilty of adultery as Hester, but he allows his guilt to remain a secret. Instead of telling the people of his vile sin, the Reverend allows it to eat away at his rotting soul. The shame of what he has done slowly kills him. The last sinner in this guilty trio is Rodger Chillingworth. This evil man not only hides his true identity as Hester’s husband, but also mentally torments

When Jeannette suffers from awful burns that cover huge swaths of her body, instead of being afraid of fire, she becomes obsessed with it. Constantly lighting matches when she shouldn’t, and, furthermore, participating in the activity that cause her to get burned in the first place. She recalls how, “A few days after Mom and Dad brought me home, I cooked myself some hot dogs.” showing her resilience and mental hardiness (Walls 15). Logically, she knows the the incident with the fire isn't a common occurance, so she chose not to be afraid of it. Seemingly, her only hang ups about the incident are the scars she received but even so, they are a relatively slight blow against her self esteem. Another instance highlighting the theme of mental resilience occurs in Welch, when Erma sexually abuses Brian, and they all resolutely decide to ignore the likelihood that their father experienced the same thing, “‘Don’t think about things like that,’ Lori told me… And so I put it out of my mind.” (Walls 148) Not the healthiest way of dealing with something like that, but it shows that their capacity for dissociating and emotional pain tolerance is frighteningly high. Under normal circumstances, sexual abuse is not an easy thing overcome. In each incident of mind over matter, although both aren’t necessarily positives instances of it, the Walls show

Firstly, resulting from prejudice and bigotry Sophie is killed tragically. Since Sophie was born with a mutation (a sixth toe) the community of Waknuk’s views towards Sophie’s extra toe force Sophie and her family to flee to the Fringes. The Fringes is a dry wasteland where all deviations (mutations) are sent to die upon their discovery. After Sophie and her family fled; the inspector a man who monitors mutations speaks to David about Sophie’s toe, telling David the seriousness of the situation. “Not reporting a human deviation is a very, very serious thing. People go to prison for it.”(51). Being pushed to the Fringes because of prejudice and bigotry brings Sophie one step closer to her own demise. Consequently, her new life is filled with darkness, starvation and loneliness in which death slowly

Sophie is currently living with the Fringe’s and surviving on the land with limited resources. Sophie’s quality of life is reflected by her attire which is tattered, tangled, and filthy. Sophie is in a relationship with Gordon, otherwise known as David’s uncle, but is not truly satisfied as she still has intimate feelings about David. After realizing that she cannot join David’s group because she does not have a metal ability, experiences jealously and melancholy realizing that she does not belong to any group and is an outcast in this world. Her life was not lived to the fullest since everyone focused on her exterior rather than her interior, and was not appreciated for her strengths only her weakness.

Nathan, an narrator, has a character’s personality trait which is being helpful and this trait helps him learn the theme, helping will reward you. For example, Nathan, an main character

Jonas has changed from being feelingless and as the story goes on he develops feelings.

One word they tend to use a lot in jonas’s community is stirrings. The stirrings come into someone's life when they start having emotions for another person. The stirrings can come in forms of dreams or thoughts. An example of the stirrings is when Jonas had a dream where he was cleaning fiona in the center for the old. Then when he told his parents about the incident he said that he liked the feeling. The only treatment for the stirrings is taking a special pill that will get rid of the stirrings for a certain amount of time. They have to take these pills until they become one of the old. Stirrings is like going through puberty. In the community that jonas is in they do not want you to experience those feelings.

Guilt also plays a major role in a woman’s vulnerability, she may understand that there is a problem, though considers herself responsible for it. She “deserves’ to be abused or treated badly, she feels, because she has imperfections in her personality, she is not living up to her man’s expectations. She again is vulnerable and each time truly believes that it will never happen again. Unfortunately the tensions begin to build again and the abuse continues and wishes she could leave the relationship. When an abused woman realizes that she must leave the relationship she may seem defenseless and confused as to what steps to take in order to feel protected.

When a reader first reads “Gothic Romanticism, their first thought is probably stories such as Dracula and Werewolves, however Gothic Romanticism is much more and can include themes such as horrific themes in a plot or the psychological thinking of a character. Despite the hundred plus years that separate Pretty Little Liars, a modern literary piece centered around four friends and The Picture of Dorian Gray, an older literary piece about a man and his painting, Gothic Romanticism is evident between the two because of the themes explored in the plots such as the psychological effect of guilt, the loss of innocence in key characters such as Emily Fields and Dorian Gray, and the consequences of the negative influence. Pretty Little Liars follows

In Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations, the author uses descriptive language to illustrate that guilt can alter one’s perception of the world, their relationship with others, and ultimately their sense of self. After returning from the marshes, Pip chooses not to disclose the true details surrounding the convict to Joe. Pip states, “The fear of losing Joe's confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney-corner at night staring drearily at my for ever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue. I morbidly represented to myself that if Joe knew it, I never afterwards could see him at the fireside feeling his fair whisker, without thinking that he was meditating on it” (37). Both characters are in fireside contemplation of the same topic, but Pip

Survivor’s guilt weighs on Blake’s mental and emotional state, forcing her to move from the town she lost everything in. A year and a half into her new life and her depression/PTSD created a lifestyle of merely existing, a life she was content with. Her coworkers are practically strangers, easily fooled into believing she is happy to be alive, but when her boss, Chad, continues to stubbornly pursue her outside of work, Blake struggles to balance the art of proving she isn’t broken, while keeping her inner demons hidden from the man who refuses to put his curiosity to rest. Just as Blake feels an ounce of courage to latch onto new possibilities, life throws Blake into unexpected painful chaos that regresses the little mental progress made since