Hypocrite

Aristotle once said, “We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.” The meaning behind Aristotle’s quote is that being ethical is important because it is what a person does, that defines a person. Morality and ethics play a huge role in life, especially doing what is right over what will be accepted, and is shown throughout To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Lee uses the novel’s moral compass, Atticus Finch, and his foil, the

stood them handy against the wall.” Huck recalls after this that the sermon was, “pretty ornery preaching-all about brotherly love, and such- like tiresomeness,”(Twain 129). Twain is directly attacking religion here saying that religious people are hypocrites and do not prove their religion through

lifetime has been a hypocrite, and because this is so common it might not always be a bad thing because people learn from their mistakes, or get educated on that thing they were so against. In Young Goodman Brown that was not the case. The town people were hypocrites, and I say they were hypocrites because for example, after Goodman Brown witnessed the evil that took place that night he saw Old Deacon Gookin at domestic worship (Hawthorne, 335). The town people were not only hypocrites, but they were

and his wife even had human waste thrown over Candide’s head. In this situation Voltaire is showing that Christians don’t always help the poor the way they should, considering the fact that the Bible says one should give to those who beg. They are hypocrites because they treat others

Some of the topics I think hit the nail on the head. These topics are presuppositions, respects for human beings, and hypocrites. The first point I agree with is that presuppositions are the end of every argument. What this means is that we look at certain pieces of evidence through a defined worldview. For example, I was watching a debate whether science can prove the existence

characters to ever walk on stage. He is a textbook definition of a hypocrite with his behaviors contradicting the morals he claims to hold. Furthermore, based on Tartuffe’s dialogue and decisions, he embodies irrationality. Yet, somehow, Tartuffe justifies all his contradictions between what he says and what he does by presenting rational-like defenses.Here, a distinction is unveiled about Tartuffe’s motivations. Is Tartuffe merely a hypocrite by deceiving others with a façade of piety? Or has Tartuffe

the play “centering around the confusion of appearances and reality which forms the basis of religious hypocrisy” (McBride 31). Scholars remain divided over the intentions behind Tartuffe’s embodiment of a religious hypocrite. Throughout Tartuffe, Molière represents the religious hypocrite less as a means to directly criticize religion and more as a way to attack self-deception and meaningless piety. Understanding first why this play received large amounts of backlash from clergy and the less-devoutly

Everyone she loves, is done so in a hypocritical manner. She manages to hide the man in her affair claiming a deep devotion towards him. This leads the readers to conclude that Hester is in fact in love with Arthur Dimmesdale. However, she is a hypocrite for claiming that she loves him yet says nothing when, her husband, Roger Chillingworth, slowly tortures him for seven years. She loves Arthur plenteous to not expose him to the puritans but, not sufficiently to inform him of her knowledge of Chillingworth's

Thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not murder, and thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor are three of the ten commandments that God created for his people to follow. The Puritans valued the commandments and devoted their lives to following them. They supposedly believed in going to church every sunday, having their children baptized young, and living day by day in accordance with the scripture. The Puritans were thought to be holy and without fault, but no one is perfect; therefore,

“My order to the police and military was to go out and hunt for them, not to kill them but arrest them, if still possible. But if they confront you violently, then shoot the idiot because it’s either you or him who will die,” this is President Duterte's response to the mass extrajudicial killings based on article Inquirer.net dated October 5, 2017. I do agree that it is somehow idiotic in summary because that kind of action is truly full of injustice, irony and hypocrisy. Group of police officials