Essay Alan Poe
Guilt is a feeling that people can have based on the values that this person grew up with, in other words, guilt is the little voice that makes us regret or feel bad about something that we did or we are about to do.
I would say that guilt is really helpful, because in some way this feeling or little voice, is basically telling you if youre doing the wrong thing or the right thing.
In my personal opinion, guilt it can be avoided with two really different ways: the first one can be call it the good one, and the other one would be the bad one, the good on, is thinking twice before you actually make what in a future you will feel guilty, the bad one is simply doing the act and dont even care about it, in that case I will call him a nonchalant person or irresponsible.
As an example of guilt, we have the three stories of Alan Poe which show as really specifics acts which would make the narrator feel or not feel guilty.
In the story of the black cat, in the first paragraph the narrator is telling as what is about to happen and why, he also shows us that he is kind of guilty, I will say a reactionary emotion, I said kind of guilty because of the fact that he wasnt feeling guilty because he kill his wife, he was feeling guilty because the police caught him.
In the tall-tail story the narrator made a murder, and dont feel guilty at all, he killed a old guy just because of the old guys glass eye, the narrator didnt care about nothing not even when the police caught him.
We have also The cask of Montillado, in this particular story to see if the narrator feel guilty, its harder, the narrator explain his evil plan and why he is going to kill his friend, I will think that the narrator wasnt feeling guilty, because of the fact that was such a good elaborated plan, that must take more than 1 day to do it, so if we think the narrator have enough time to think it, and he still did it, I would say that in this case the narrator wasnt feeling guilty.
Being guilty its one of the thousands things that determine how is each person. Being guilty make the society regret for things that they have done, making less the possibilities of commit this error again, making each person responsible to give a little bit of his good ideas to the next person, if we multiply by all the people in the world, we would see that people is helping each other trying to make a better society, the bad thing comes when some of this persons doesnt have an idea of what is guilt, doesnt care about others, doesnt regret for thing that they did wrong and of course, try to destroy the good things that people have being trying to do, making slower the evolution of human ideology.
How would we react when we encounter someone who has transgressed immensely but feel no guilt?
Well people have other qualities like tolerance, what Im trying to say is that depends a lot the situation of how we meet this person, in my opinion trying to think in such a big problem as in the stories, I probably be really scared as a lot of people would be, but there is some problems that society could forgive, in this case it wouldnt be a problem because the society know that is wrong but is not such a big deal, its more common, and society would not have a hard or spontaneous reaction, now, with non-common things as a murder, kidnapping etc the reaction of society would be completely different.
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