Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Friday, October 29, 2010
Shame
I was thinking of writing about if shame is a good punishment. In some ways it is a good punishment because everybody knows what you did and its embarrassing. On the other hand if the person doesn't care what people think then the punishment isn't affective. Shame is a feeling, and feelings come from ones self. Different people have different feelings, so the punishment of shame will effect people differently. Also you can feel shame because every one found out or because you let your self down. So shame as a punishment really depends on the person.
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Nik,
ReplyDeleteThis is a fine start, but you don't take your own good ideas far enough (try to use this forum as a place to EXPLORE your ideas at length, and informally). I think you're right that one of your tasks will be to define shame (and maybe differentiate public from private shame?), and then analyze its efficacy in the context of the characters in the novel (be sure to ground your argument in the text--which means you need to go back and identify those passages related to shame that will be most useful to you in building your case).
I look forward to seeing your first draft!
I really like this idea, but would like to offer some advice. I think you should compare how serious a punishment shame is today compared to what Hesther went through.
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