Category: Honor

Honor is a set of human qualities, due to which he gains self-esteem. It includes such qualities as nobility, justice, valor, courage, honesty and strict moral principles. In the past, honor was associated not so much with the internal qualities of a person, as with his ability to behave in society, to comply with established…

Afzal Kohistani was a man on a mission, a mission that he believed in and eventually sacrificed his life for. His struggle started in 2012 when he brought the Kohistan video scandal to our attention. The scandal shows the ugly face of “honor” in our society which ironically ends in death for those accused of…

A man in the likeness of dishonesty is like an illusion, one that hides his deception and guile. Odysseus displays a false representation of merit as his more prominent heroic qualities conceal his dishonorable traits. However, mere strength and bravery alone, does not make a hero honorable. Honor can be defined as an individual who…

The themes natural desire and honor are emphasized in the tales Caterina and Ricciardo and Tancredi and Ghismonda. Natural desire and honor conflict with each other in these tales. This conflict causes some of the characters to react positively to their situations while others react negatively. Obeying the laws of natural desire and honor results…

Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s “In a Grove” concerns various witnesses in a murder trial. Although each witness is testifying about the same crime, their accounts vary. They seem to remember different facts, making it difficult to convict anyone. Three of the witnesses, Tajomaru the thief, Masago, and her Samurai husband, Kanazawa no Takehiko all confess to at…

Despite being written and set around three hundred and fifty years apart, both William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Edible Woman’ are regarded, to varying degrees of popularity, as being landmark texts for the Feminist movement. Atwood herself has noted that ‘there was no woman’s movement in sight when [she] composed…

Hamlet and Fortinbras have opposing viewpoints. As previously shown, Hamlet is a thinker who must consider all aspects of a situation before acting. He also appears to need a lot more just before agreeing to do something. For example, Hamlet is unlikely to have reacted in the same way that Fortinbras did in the preceding…

Novelist Paulo Coelho once said, “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.” Much like this, Amir is influenced by challenges put in front of him by the cultural environment in Khaled Hosseini’s, “The Kite Runner”. This cultural environment, represented by the settings, characters, and…

There was a time when the goal of all good, great, and decent men was to obtain honor. Every motive, dictated by their sense of honor, was aimed at bolstering it or regaining some that had been lost. To fulfill their sense of honor, men of valor would slay the dragon, overthrow an evil villain,…

The violence of the dishonorable Thanes of Cawdor led to a snowball effect of civil unrest in Scotland in Macbeth. The Thane of Cawdor, before Macbeth had the title, was dishonorably initiating a rebellion against King Duncan for more power in Scotland. In response to the Thane of Glamis, Macbeth enters the fight for his…