Lust

An American writer, Elbert Hubbard, once said, “We are punished by our sins, not for them.” The seven deadly sins- an old system that describes humanity’s immoral faults and weaknesses- consists of pride, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth, wrath, and greed. The presence of sin is unwelcome but runs current into the lives of mankind, bringing havoc along its trail. In the 19th-century Russian novel, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the little to nothing father and son relationship between…

From murder to spying, insanity, and suicide, the theme of decay and corruption is evident in Hamlet. Nearly every character displays at minimum one of the seven deadly sins, which are greed, pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, envy, and wrath. This paper will discuss the meaning and examples of the sins in Hamlet. It will also show how Shakespeare created his play to depict that the wages of sin is death. Greed is shown in many characters and is defined as an intense and selfish desire for…

Secondly, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel titled The Great Gatsby follows the antagonist called Tom Buchanan as he commits deadly sins of wrath and pride and lust. According to Oxford-Online Dictionary,“antagonist” is defined as,“A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary”(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com). In other words, an antagonist is a person who offers opposition to the protagonist. Tom Buchanan is the antagonist in the novel titled The Great…

on Juliet, he immediately believes he is in love. He claims to have never loved anyone till then and he had never seen such beauty till the moment he gazed at young Juliet. This proves that he was never in love with Rosaline and was only fueled by lust. This proves that Romeo’s “love” for Juliet is the same as his “love” for Rosaline. “...the frontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls reasoning and helps us think before we act, develops later. This part of the brain is still changing…

claim that they are in love with one another but, the reality is they love the small part of freedom they have because of each other. Julie and Winston’s relationships origin is from their aspiration to rebel against the government and based off of lust not love. Moreover, Winston loves…

Pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth these are the seven deadly sins. Pride the excessive belief in ones own ability. Envy the desire for others things. Gluttony to consume more than needed. Lust the craving for pleasures of the body. Anger is to be mad. Greed is to be stingy with money. Sloth is to be lazy. Dilligaf to lose confidence and have low self-esteem. Dilligaf means to withdraw from society and your peers. Low self-esteem and not loving yourself can…

have been used to warn later generations. Each society have different standards for good qualities and less desirable qualities, depending on what the community values. Beowulf showed admirable qualities like courage and loyalty to his community. His lust, pride, and confidence, however, made him less commendable to his society and became cautionary tale about hubris. The warrior culture in Beowulf is quickly set up to make courage an admirable trait in people. The very first lines of the…

Merriam-Webster defines love as “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person” (“Love”). Yet, in Twelfth Night, this may not be the case. In this play, love is disposable, achieved only through greed. Shakespeare picks apart his own characters ' "affection" for each other. This shows us how none of their love is strong or constant. None of the relationships portrayed in Twelfth Night compare to the definition of love. Throughout the play, Shakespeare conjures up about 10 different…

the leader of the group of young girls in Salem. In Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail’s flaws – lust, dishonestly, Spitefulness – that lead her to be most responsible for the tragedy for the tragedy of witch-hunt in Salem. One of many character flaws that Abigail possess is lust. Throughout the play Abigail displays a continuing lust for John Proctor. For example “I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come…

play by how he felt about his own mother. Firstly, Heilbrun doesn’t believe that Gertrude cheat her late husband and there is not story behind it. When the latest King spoke to Hamlet about Claudius has been lust to Gertrude before or after the King dead. Claudius won Gertrude by his lust and he used his persuasive words. Ghost look his brother as trash and has no respect for his own brother. He felt betrayed. Therefore, Gertrude didn’t cheat on her husband because there is no evidence in the…