Early in the play, he had a chance to put a stop to the girls’ accusations, but his desire to preserve his reputation keeps him from testifying against Abigail. In addition to concealment of information, the pride of some of the condemned people caused them not to confess their “crime” and in doing so, receive the punishment of death. At the end of the play, Proctor’s desire to keep his good name leads him to make the choice not to make a false confession and to go to his death without signing his name on a statement. “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”(150) Proctor cried in act four. By refusing to give up his name, he redeemed himself for his earlier failure and died with Pride.
People will also be angry once they find out the secrets that have been kept for one’s incentive. Pain will be one of the repercussions of the secrets kept hidden based on one’s impulse. One example was when Caroline was debating whether or not to send David a picture of Phoebe on the day of celebrating her confirmation. While she’s pondering what to do, she starts to think about how he may hurt her the same way he hurt Caroline, “without even knowing it happened” (234). Caroline, as far away as she may be from Norah and David, did suffer because of David’s secret.
Religion is the source of many fears of death. Almost every religion tells you to live your life a certain way. Follow their path and your reword will be great in the after-life. Stray from this path you will be punished. Since no one is perfect, this judgment upon death becomes a scary thing.
Dominique Esponda Mrs. Esposito English Block 3 November 28, 2011 Importance of Reputation In 15th Century England, an Anonymous person once said. “Reputation can break even the strongest of men, but he is a base man who sacrifices to protect his reputation.” In this quote, the author is expressing that anyone can ruin their reputation, and some people will surrender anything to try to save it. There are many historical events and even works of literature that can prove this statement true. One work consists of Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. In Miller’s play, Abigail and Reverend Parris are both “base” people who find it necessary to defend their image and act immorally to protect their reputation because if not, they will be seen as a follower of the devil and may be hanged.
“Fighting for our lives” the title of the first chapter in the book The Argument Culture by Deborah Tanner is an apt way to describe the subject of this paper. Our culture has programmed us to take an adversarial approach in all forms of discourse with the need to win as the ultimate goal. This attitude can have a huge impact on our everyday lives. Interacting in this manner can literally kill a relationship. Many couples argue to win but over the long term this often results in a breakup.
Macbeth, on the other hand, does not like a possible future by the withes prophecy: that he will kill his King. This shows the difference between Lord and Lady Macbeth. It is only after much nagging and cajoling from his wife that he decides to go through with it, and then half heartedly. His wife uses insults, demeans him, and makes him feel less than a man, so Macbeth finally gives in. While Lady Macbeth is the one who sets the ball rolling, it was the witches that put the ball at the top of the hill.
John had to make a decision between life and death and he chose to die. He chose to die because he didn’t want to live a lie while other innocent people were killed. The fact that John decided to die made him a strong and righteous person. Although John made the wise decision and died to protect his family from accusations at the same time he didn’t make the wise decision because once he is hung the state owns his property and his family doesn’t have
Romeo decided that he was in love with Juliet upon sight without knowing who she was (Shakespeare 924). This was a terrible choice Romeo had literally no idea who she was and this could have stopped the whole conflict of the play. Romeo then ignored his dreams which he believed told his destiny (Shakespeare 921-1009). While if Romeo listened to these dreams which he believed told the future he would have been much more cautious because he would know that he was going to die prematurely. Also, by him listening to his dreams he would have made either little or no poor choices later in the play which results in his death.
Considering the thought that being in a position with God may cause his death to be less painful, Hamlet chooses to wait, whereas he could have killed him off and ultimately saved his life in the end. Based on Hamlets failure to take initiative in the beginning of the play, the tragic deaths of his family and friends are also a result. Hamlet did not take advantage of his time to kill Claudius and thus became irresponsible
Also their love isn’t able to blossom fully as the government controls hamlet’s actions. There are many sacrifices in the play:-hamlet sacrifices his love for Ophelia to continue his fathers ‘quest’ to avenge him , but love changes him , he wants to avenge his father but his love for Ophelia is strong. He is faced with confusion. love is dangerous as well, when hamlets decision becomes too much for him he must scare Ophelia, thus pushing her away, in order to carry on with the avenging. “ my lord I do not know, but I fear it” it is unknown , “ to be or not to be “ – everything in hamlet’s world including love is unfamiliar and scary for him.