Examples Of Guilt In Fifth Business

“Guilt is to the spirit, what pain is to the body.” Elder David A. Bednar. This full time missionary has done a good job in effectively and efficiently scratching the surface of the topic of guilt and its inner workings, causes, and effects. Guilt is any feeling of remorse or responsibility for wrongdoing. Similarly, both myself and the characters in Fifth Business experience guilt. The main cause of this guilt, experienced by the characters, would be them displaying a different archetype than the one they’ve applied to themselves. For example, Dunstable views himself as a hero as he always tries to do what is morally correct; when he shot the three enemy soldiers during the war, Dunstable felt as if he embodied the shadow archetype (the shadow

I was walking down the stairs, whilst on my phone, and when I got to the last step I stepped on my cat’s paw. As a result, I felt very concerned and guilty. I was concerned because; subsequently after the incident, my cat temporarily walked with a limp on the same paw that I had stepped on. Immediately, in sheer and utter panic, I tried doing everything I could to comfort my cat and make him feel better; I followed my cat, I massaged my cat, and I fed my cat. In essence, I did all I could to help him feel better and he still walked with the same limp and it was all my fault and I lied to my dad since I knew this would get me in big trouble. Furthermore, every time I would look at my cat, a gut wrenching guilty feeling would consume me because I knew just how innocent, vulnerable, pure, fragile my cat

It is dependent of whether I am directly involved as well as the effects after the incident, in which the guilt was caused. Sometimes, if I am not directly involved, I feel the guilt in waves of increasing sadness and even depression. Other times, if I’m directly involved, I tell lies and try to convince everyone (even myself) that the incident simply did not happen. Correspondingly, this has prevented me from feeling the guilt and/or suffering the consequences of any wrongdoing I committed. The particular guilty experience I had with my cat changed me and the way I act around him. Moreover, it hurt me knowing that I allowed my phone to distract me to this extent. More recently, I have taken extreme caution while walking down the stairs; also, I made sure to never use my phone while doing so, as it is dangerous. That was the major cause of the incident and in an effort to never have it happen again, I will cease it. Likewise, since I was on my phone not paying attention to what I was doing, my innocent cat had to suffer and that is not fair. Ultimately, this incident has caused me to be more cautious in