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    Sometimes the people that you least suspect such as, loved ones and the people around you could be hiding something behind your back and planning to act against you. In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, the short story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, and the movie “The Lion King” directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, all portray the dire consequences people face when betrayed and when trust is broken. The three sources that have showed the common theme of betraying trust is

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    Betrayal is the breaking the trust of someone or a group of people that would benefit you morally. Although this is morally wrong, nature of this is to help you out and putting yourself above the person you would be betraying. From either banishing your brother to a lone island for his position of the duke, or to lie to your servants to use them to their fullest benefit for no one but yourself, this nature of betrayal is only usually used for personal gain and in to gain a higher advantage towards

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    Betrayal In Hamlet

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    Betrayal a punitive word yet it still exists in the heart and mind of man. Betrayal disparaged the word, ‘trust’. Trust a strong conferment one fines in the other, that can kill both the body and the spirit when bridged or broken. Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.by Tom Cochrane this was the sad experience of the king’s son whose father was killed by his own uncle and married

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    2015 The Kite Runner: Khaled Hosseini portrays how strong friendships withstand terrible betrayals “The plot of The Kite Runner revolves around the protagonist, Amir’s betrayal of his best friend Hassan. In a way, this betrayal drives the rest of the book and perhaps everything that precedes it” (anonymous). Khaled Hosseini presses on the unique relationships between friends as well as the test of friendship. Friendship is an important aspect of everybody’s life. Friends influence

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    definition of betrayal. There is nothing complicated about it, in fact, it is actually quite simple. As Amir did in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, we hide behind our shame- act as if we’ve done nothing wrong when in reality, we know the damage we’ve done. The Kite Runner exemplifies the most painful form of betrayal- allowing self-image dictate the way in which treat others. Amir allowed his social status, as well as his own insecurities, distort his sense of morality. On the surface, friendship seems

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    Friendship is an integral part of humanity, everyone wants to connect with someone and let their guard down, but unfortunately, sometimes friendships can have unforeseen issues. In the play “Hamlet” and the novel “The Kite Runner” friendships are tested as they face challenges to their loyalty. Both stories explore the troubles of friendship including, trust, vengeance and betrayal. In “Hamlet”, the titular character enjoys his time with his childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern until he

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    Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the secondary characters to show the theme of loyalty and friendship. Although the characters are secondary to the play, their loyalty and friendship, or lack of, have an effect on the main character, Hamlet. He uses the Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Horatio to show the different levels and types of friendship and loyalty. Shakespeare shows that some people’s loyalty and friendship may be betrayed and then regained, or that it can be shallow and easily bought, or

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    physical and emotional behavior. It is important to understand that the true friendship is like building a sand castle on top of the wet sand. Maintaining and improving our relationship between our friends are extremely challenging. For example, it take tremendous times to build sand castle on top of the wet sand, and if we are careless with the castle, it will collapse within 10 second. The process of building friendship is difficult. If we could considerate our friends situation and understanding

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    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you” – Elbert Hubbard. It is said well that a friend is someone who will not consider your flaws but all the good things about you. When we hear the word friendship we get a feeling of loyalty, feeling of being secured and most importantly the feeling of true bliss. It is often said that friends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know that they are always there. However, we come across an irony in the novel ‘The Kite Runner’

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    Friendship is a relationship between two or more people who have a mutual understanding with one another when it comes to trust and support. A friendship is when you have someone that you can rely on all the time, someone who does not judge you, someone who is always honest with you, and someone who does not turn their back on you. Friendships are tested every day, whether it being from jealously, disloyalty, dishonesty, or even betrayal. In order for friendship to work out you must be able to communicate

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