Hesitation

personality, Jack’s behavior deteriorates into that of a ruthless madman. In the beginning of the text, Jack demonstrated hesitation in taking a life of a pig because of “the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood”

Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet Prince of Denmark, focuses on Prince Hamlet and his actions, or lack thereof, after the treacherous murder of his father and unwitting marriage of his mother to the very murderer—her brother. In Act II, Scene ii of the play, Hamlet begins a soliloquy from Aeneas’s tale to Dido, representing a play within a play, known by the French term “mise en abyme”, in which the First Player finishes the story of Priam’s death from Virgil’s Aeneid (Merriam Webster) (Britannica).

Barbara Evans Clements, a retired professor of History from the University of Akron, and author of Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai (1979), Daughters of Revolution: A History of Women in the USSR (1994), and Bolshevik Women (1997), wrote the article “Working-Class and Peasant Women in the Russian Revolution, 1917-1923” in 1982 to address a topic that she believed was lacking in scholarship. This topic, according to Clements was in-depth study into the experiences of peasant and

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas describes how men feel when approaching death. The readers are encouraged to approach death with hesitation because you can offer a lot more to this world if you have the determination to live longer. Thomas use of literary devices emphasize this idea and gives examples of how men approach death. The poem begins with the speaker talking to an unknown listener and ends by telling us that the unknown listener is the speaker’s father. The speaker

is accurate, but I also think there is more to it than that. If someone has to feel obligated to do someone a favor or show support, then to me, that is not loyalty. Loyalty is something a person should show instantaneously, without thinking or hesitation. If a person does that, that to me is true loyalty because it

that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy”. Shakespeare used this concept in many of his plays, including Hamlet. Within this play, Prince Hamlet, the tragic hero, has the flaws of hesitation, suspicion, and over contemplation which leads him to his death. First of all, Hamlet’s hesitation leads him to destruction. Instead of killing Claudius immediately, he chooses to put on a fake play to ensure Claudius’s guilt of the murder of his father. Before the performance Hamlet says, “One

practically everyone has. Unfortunately, some authority is essential for community living. In a way, obedience is a form of submission as old as time itself. Society appears threatened by disobedience and hesitation. In the experiments described in “The Perils of Obedience”, ethics and hesitation get in the way of obedience. Unfortunately, this type of behavior displays disobedience in the eyes of society. Stanley Milgram experimented, “how much pain an ordinary person would inflict on another person

In the piece “Elephant” the author uses irony in order to showcase the true essence of social norms. It is stated, “For at that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as I would have been if I had been alone.” This dialogue reveals that the people are causing the main character to behave differently. This implies that they ironically have power over the main character, despite the fact he is a law enforcer. Later in the piece, the main character is aware that

Macbeths descent into dishonor is displayed in the two most prominent murders in the first 3 acts: the slaying of Duncan and the assassination of Banquo. When Lady Macbeth is convincing her husband to murder the king, the reader is able to detect his hesitation to commit such a heinous crime. Also, the remorse Macbeth feels after he murders Duncan proves that he still possesses some of that honor and loyalty he originally held in such high regard. However, when Macbeth has Banquo killed he has changed

killing. Pi hesitates because he is a good person and holds on to his morals. Later, when Pi needs to find another fish to feed Richard Parker, Pi fishes and reels in a large dorado. Once the dorado is on the raft, Pi kills the large fish without hesitation