The feeling of guilt causes people to feel responsible, condemned, and deserving of punishment for a wrong doing Those who don’t experience the feeling of guilt can be called “morally bad people”, for it is this feeling that is the foundation of our conscience. A foundation that ensures that there will always be more good than bad in this world. Since you were little, you have been taught to consider the consequences before acting. Even if there aren’t any obvious consequences, the feeling of guilt will always exist.
In the movie Bench Warmers, starring Rob Schneider, guilt plays a major role in the outcome of the movie. Rob Schneider, who plays Gus, is a short man and claims that many people in don’t get a chance in life because they are “small and bullied”. The viewer thinks that Gus is talking about his past and how he was bullied throughout his childhood; however, a major plot twist occurs when Gus goes to a kid’s house that he had bullied in high school. The kid, Marcus, is a “dorky midget”, and Rob finds him playing with toys in his basement when he arrives from his surprise visit. When Marcus realizes Gus is the kid who bullied him in high school 20 years ago, he quickly runs inside his castle and hides from Gus. Rob truly wants to apologize to Gus for all the terrible things he had done to Marcus back in high school; his conscience got the best of him and he now realized that it’s only right to apologize. After convince Marcus that he truly is sorry for everything that he did back in high school, and to make it up to him Gus promises Marcus a chance to throw out the first pitch at a big baseball game. Even though there weren’t any immediate consequences for bullying Marcus, guilt got the best of Gus in the end.
The most guilt I have ever felt came from picking on my sister. We were on vacation and she has been bothering me the entire time. One morning my parents went out to the gym and I was left to wreck havoc on my little sister. She was watching T.V. in a dark room, so I knew this was a great opportunity to scare her. I went to the kitchen and grabbed a large knife, the one that killers use in horror films. As I slowly opened the door and showed her the knife I was holding she backed up as far as she could against the bed. I was pretending to be a zombie to make her think she couldn’t communicate with me and tell me to cut it out. As I got closer and closer she started screaming at the top of her lungs. When I got within a few feet my conscience made me realize that I had taken the prank to far and undid the whole zombie act and told her I was sorry. Unfortunately for me, this wasn’t a case where there weren’t any immediate consequences, for when my parents returned from the gym they punished me pretty good. For the rest of the vacation I rarely did anything fun and was in the dog-house for several weeks after the vacation.
In Macbeth guilt isn’t playing as big a role as I originally thought it would. Macbeth is killing people left and right but guilt hasn’t stopped him from killing the next. However, guilt is catching up to Lady Macbeth; she was seen sleepwalking and washing her hands. She says she wants to wash her sins away; this is significant because previously the reader viewed Lady Macbeth as a ruthless woman who would never feel a drop of guilt.
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