Conscience

states that "the superego strives for perfection and judges our actions, producing positive feelings of pride or negative feelings of guilt" (380). The superego acts as the mind's conscience. In the story, the narrator, Mama, clearly represents the superego portion of the mind structure because of her guilty conscience and her wishes to be perfect, both mentally and physically.

By doing this Hamlet hopes to receive a negative reception from the King, thus revealing the ugly burden on his conscience. The play, in depicting the King's guilt, does have a certain degree of success. His wish for the lights to come on and his order of "Away!" certainly suggest he was not feeling altogether comfortable in the situation, but there

important things since.” (Davies, 269-70) After years of suppressing the past, Boy’s conscience is finally aligned with the present. Dunstan becomes a significant factor of influence in the actions of Boy Staunton because of his emotions. As Dunstan was tortured by his guilt, morally, he knew it was only right to tell the truth. As a result, Boy eventually confesses. Similarly, Horatio too acts as Hamlet’s second conscience. When Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus are met with the ghost, Horatio displays his

Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless vs. The Rest of Us sends the reader into a state of frightful paranoia when she mentions that a staggering 1 in 25, 4%, persons is, in fact, a sociopath. A sociopath, as Stout asserts, is a person with the lack of a conscience, thus a person not concerned with the suffering of others, to worry only about itself. She goes on to tell us that, because the rate of sociopaths in our society is so high, we must have already met hundreds without knowing it, due to the elusive

Our conscience is the indicator into what we think and the actions that follow our thinking process. It acts as a guide into different paths of behaviors, such as wrong and right. Sociopaths lack a conscience, have a personality disorder, and act uncontrollably in extreme, and violent behaviors when in encountered in unappealing situations. As “4% of people are sociopaths-1 in 25 people.”(10) Many sociopaths have the tendency to murder and harm others without feeling remorse for their actions.

Does the truth always set you free? On the Waterfront is a film that touches on the complexity of this question while exposing power, corruption, and its consequences. The main character, Terry Malloy deals with a personal battle between his morality and what is safest to do. Malloy struggles in finding his own identity that isn't connected to the mob. He struggles with the insecurity of having an identity and what that details. Throughout the film, Malloy startes to uncover his identity and the

Relationships with individuals can often represent the proverbial angel and devil on one’s shoulders. In Oscar Wilde’s novel, the Picture of Dorian Grey, Dorians conscience symbolizes by his relationships by Basil and Lord Henry. While Lord Henry represents the immoral and impure aspect of Dorians Conscience, Basil represents his pull to the light and the moral side. Both Lord Henry and Basil are clearly infatuated with Dorian, however they each have different motives. Because Dorian devotes himself

A Separate Peace, a novel by John Knowles has become a classic work of American Literature, from evolving characters to depressing themes. Our main character, Gene, comes back to his childhood school Devon School after many years. He reminisces on the memories he's had, especially with his best friend Phineas who he harbors many sad memories with. During his childhood Gene caused a accident on Phineas that would haunt him throughout the whole book, but since then has changed . Gene, coming back to

evidence is presented when she says that writing is a way for her to reach out to others, encouraging readers to continue pursuing this line of thought (173). Moreover, the readers feel that by receiving this attention, Slater wants to clear her conscience of the guilt of all the

or application of a particular principle may lessen, opening up the possibility of accepting an alternative position. Robert Bolt’s play, ‘A Man For All Seasons’, and Elia Kazan’s ‘On the Waterfront’, we see that integrity is impossible without a conscience guided by long reflection upon the inner character of justice. Bolt’s ethical protagonist