Embarrassment

In “The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst utilizes indirect characterization primarily shown through the protagonist’s dialogue, thoughts, and actions to his brother to communicate the idea that a fear of embarrassment, which leads to an over-reliance upon one’s self-pride and confidence, can lead to undesirable and even deadly consequences if not corrected soon enough. When the story begins, the protagonist, Brother, is dissatisfied by the fact that his brother, Doodle, is born with severe…

sees is close if not equal to the suspense and danger of these supernatural or spectacular Gothic events. This is further confirmed in the author’s use of intense emotions and reactions for Catharine. She does not simply put aside her thoughts of embarrassment she has a “violent dispatch”, as though she is physically attacking, using violence, against her own thoughts (120). The same as one would attack or use violence on a great danger in the Gothic making these feelings and mundaneness…

Bogart explains the crucial part in which embarrassment plays during the creative process. Bogart talks about how “the enemy of art is assumption.” Assumption keeps the actor confined within the box of being comfortable. She explains that if the actor is comfortable, they aren’t doing the performance…

Tim O’Brien’s, The Things They Carried, was about an American soldiers in a platoon in the Vietnam War. The short story recounts everything they carried with them as they marched through Vietnam. What these soldiers carried with them daily was not only physical but also intangible. For example, an intangible weight was, “More than anything, he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her.” The love that he had for her and the love he longed from her, consumed his attention day in and day out.…

Imagine how it would feel to be a target of bullying because of weight issues, feeling cramped on airplane rides because the seat is not large enough, and lastly the overwhelming amount of insecurity and self-hatred of being called “fat”. There once was a Palestinian boy named rocky encountered adversities on a daily basis due to his obesity. He heard horrific comments from his family members such as, “ you probably crushed your sister while you were in the fetus with her and crushed her into…

Right off the bat, at the beginning of the story, Francis Macomber shows signs of fear and weakness not only to his wife but to everyone else at the campsite. It is given that he does not want to be killed while hunting but also wants to show that he can be a real man and redeem himself for all the cowardly things he has done in the past. During the lion hunt, he is very scared but does not show it until he is just about to shoot the Lion. When he does not kill the lion the first time and sees…

first performance for the high school color guard amounted to the show flag slipping through my clutches and slamming onto the freshly cut, football field grass. The searing embarrassment that followed felt like the end of the world. What I did not realize was that this failure would shape how I would handle embarrassment in the…

Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale have on-going obstacles working against their happiness and physical well-being but they handle their issues in entirely different ways. For example, Roger has the issue of his wife being pregnant with another man’s child and Arthur has the problem of not being able to with the woman and child that he loves. Instead of silently and intellectually handling the matter, like Chillingworth did, Dimmesdale punished himself multiple ways and took it harshly…

The Vietnam War as historians describe it was a lament of history, driven only by unconditional hatred between opposing government ideologies and the allure of false patriotism. With the government ensuing conscription, the people were left divided on the matter, polarized and further extrapolated by the frequent exchange of harsh criticism between sides. It was a fight between opposite sides of a moral compass, a clash of social philosophies and the people who pledged neutrality were forcefully…

condemned Pearce for his rash and unwarranted decisions: “It will be long before the Langites allow him to forget his ‘futile and fatuous’ Emu War” (“The Emu War”). The media-wide coverage of the Emu War's failures majorly contributed to the public embarrassment of the Australian Ministry of Defence, proving the Emu War as a frivolous and unnecessary dispute. Adding to this narrative of defeat, Meredith and his team's withdrawal from the Emu War on November 8 symbolized their official…