The Truth Lies Of Lying

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a tragic play set in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, where Miller uses the Salem Trials as a metaphor for the 1950s McCarthy hearings. In Salem, people value their good names. The Puritan community acts as a theocracy in which there appears to be no right to privacy, and people must conform to a strict moral code. The theme of reputation, lying, and deceit are shown in Abigail, John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Warren, and other characters. In the play’s dialogue, Miller uses Biblical allusions, situational irony, and dramatic irony to develop these themes.

Angelo Segura English 12 Honors Dr. Jen 5 May 2018 The moment we proclaim we don’t or have never lied is the moment we lie. It doesn’t matter how well we say it, there are points in our lives when we are faced with certain situations where the only viable option to get out of it is to lie. Lies may be categorized, but whether it’s a good lie or a bad lie, it’s still a lie. Throughout her essay, “The Ways We Lie”, Stephanie Ericsson explores and exploits different kinds of lies we may use in our daily lives.

Stephanie Ericsson’s “The Ways We Lie”, analyzes the prominent role of lying in everyone’s lives. In lies, both the liar and the person being lied to will suffer by having a false sense of security, reality, and honesty. Stephanie Ericsson uses interrogation, alliteration, and repetition in order to convey her idea about the art of lies.

In her essay “The Ways We Lie” Stephanie Ericsson (2007) states different ways people lie in their lives and explains the reasons why people lie. Ericsson starts her essay, by explaining how she lied four times in just one day, and that she doesn’t feel guilty about doing it. Although at the same time she explains that everyone lies one way or another but there is no such a thing as a good lie. The author continues her contends by listing different types of lies people use in different situations such as: the white lie, facades, ignoring the plain facts, deflecting, omission, stereotypes and clichés, groupthink, out-and-out lies, dismissal, and finally delusion then she explains each in detail by providing examples.

How often do we lie and never consider the outcomes? In her essay, “The Ways We Lie,” Stephanie Ericsson explores the different types of lies and the consequences of their usage. She effectively provides anecdotal and factual evidence to support her definitions of lies.

Stephanie Ericsson is a novelist. She does a great job explaining why people lie and the different types of lies in her essay “The Ways We Lie.” Ericsson’s essay was first published as the cover story for the Utne Reader magazine in 1993. Ericsson tries to send an important message through her essay: “Lying has influence on nearly everyone we have known.” As she describes her experiences with her partner, child, friend, and bank, the situation becomes very familiar to the readers which have gone through similar situations every day” (31,32,33).

Taking a step back from the characteristic early-2000’s punk-pop of their first album, Lies for the Liars takes on a whole new direction for the used. The use of string instrumentation, choral singers, and more dynamic vocals creates a whole new experience for fans of The Used. However, lyrically, the album lacks cohesion. “Pretty Handsome Awkward”, “Hospital”, and “Liar, Liar” are all targeted attacks of hatred, while interspersed tracks like “Earthquake”, “Find A Way”, and finale track “Smother Me” are poignant love songs. This brings a disjointed feel to the album and takes away from the fluency of the music and its translation song to song. As individual songs, the emotions are subtley shown through the lyrics, backed by music that may

Stephanie Klein once said, “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.” This quote relates to Charles Van Doren and “Twenty-One, ” a famous quiz show from the 1950’s. The scandal involved more than one player receiving answers from producer, Dan Enright. This is a very well known quiz show scandal from the 1950’s. Charles Van Doren should be held accountable for his actions because, he had knowledge of what was going on, he actively searched for answers, and he lied to people about what was happening.

themselves from perceived risk or danger or risk of being returned to a perceived risk or danger.

Unfortunately, Graff can be recognized as a liar because of his major lie at the end of the the novel; In the final test at command school, Ender realizes something; he realizes that Graff lied to him. The final test was actually him killing all of the bugger population. Graff says to Ender, “It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it” (Card, 392). The lyrics that most remind me of this situation are “just gonna stand there and hear me cry but that's alright, because I love the way you lie, I love the way you lie”. This makes sense because Graff knows he hurt Ender by lying to him but he knew it was the right thing to do. Thankfully, Ender goes on the prove Graff wrong; it really was not the correct thing to do.

In the age of information and technology, the general public is bombarded with facts and figures several times a day. It is absolutely essential for one to learn how to take these kinds of stats and data. If a person does not understand that not all the numbers that are being thrown around are not entirely what they seem, an individual can start getting persuaded of false claims and notions. In his book A field guide to lies, Daniel Levitin trains his readers to be prepared to take on this bombardment of numbers. Also, he reveals the reality of a lot of these stats and how people and agencies do not show the true form of these numbers or if they are even really true or just straight up falsified. There are many great points in this book of

In general, society considers lying to be negative and therefore one should not lie. Telling the truth is the morally right thing to do, and we should always be honest. Telling lies can leave us very stressed out and cause us to be deceitful towards others. We end up distorting ones views and perhaps even our own when we tell a lie that can lead to a snowball effect. Immanuel Kant has some of the strictest views on lying, and some philosophers claim there is something erroneous in his theory. He maintains that telling a lie is a violation of one’s duty to be truthful to everyone and shows a lack of respect. Even though Kant never gives a direct statement about what is a lie, he presents us with the ethics behind the his moral theory. Kant proposes an argument that it still debated about to this day. He claims if a murderer shows up at your door looking for a person that you know the whereabouts of, it is your moral obligation is to tell the murderer where the person is. Although this argument can be argued to be morally correct, one could simply not tell the truth to the murderer, due to human nature.

Lying is usually considered wrong at all times. However some people including myself would think that lies can actually be justified at times. Lies are viewed to a lot of people as wrong,

Generally speaking, there are two types of lies: “good” lies and a “bad” lies. Lies that you tell for good reasons are classified as “good” lies. For example, telling your friend she looks good in an outfit even if she looks bad, just to avoid hurting her feelings. Lies that someone tells to deliberately mislead someone from the truth are classified as “bad” lies. These lies usually have negative connotations. For example, spilling water all over grandma’s computer, but blaming it on someone else. “Bad” lies are used to cover up the truth, to take the blame off someone, or to bring negativity. However, there truly is no difference between a “good” lie and a “bad” lie. Both of these types of lies have been brought up as a way to try to justify lying, when really, dishonesty in any form is more

Lying, and manipulation can play a big role in everyone’s life; while many will say lying is a bad form of ethics, not many can agree that lying can sometimes hold advantages. It all goes back to the context of the scenario; sometimes the truth can hurt more than the lie and you want to protect someone from that. Lying to benefit the other person, to help you appear better, or to even protect yourself or others. Lies can help a person get higher up in social situations, avoid someone from getting hurt, or even protecting a loved one.