Molestation In The Movie 'Doubt'

surrounded by the farmers, he made an instinctive decision to stay, even against his father’s commands. Sometimes this moral instinct does not make logical sense, but it seems to be embedded in human DNA. You shared with us in class a quote by James Holis, which states “part of the legitimate development of the individual is the appropriate acknowledgement of guilt… the acceptance of responsibility for the consequences of one’s choices, however unconscious one was at the time.” In bridge of spies the characters were dealing with the same moral instinct telling them not to drop a bomb on the house that they knew contained suicide bombers who would likely go kill many children, just because there was one little girl that would be hurt or killed

Greg Jemsek talked about how the concept of self is made up of identity, meta-narratives, and belonging, and how all these things overlap onto each other. He also explained that this overlapping increased in circumstances with intensity. I saw this in the movie The Hunt, when people where so quick to blame a man for a crime with very little evidence because it involved child molestation. The movie Doubt was also based on accusation of child molestation with very little evidence, as was the movie Atonement. Why were the characters in these movies so sure about their accusations? The truth is that the characters in these movies were not so sure. They chose to act like they were because it feels really good to be able to blame someone. As Brene Brown states, “Blame is simply discharge of discomfort and pain. It has an inverse relationship with accountability.” She explains that blaming someone, even oneself, can give a person a sense of control over a situation. In Doubt Sister Aloysius appeared so certain about her accusation, even with little evidence besides her feeling of certainty. Kathryn Shultz writes, “True, Certainty cannot protect us from error, any more than shouting a belief can make it true. But it does shield us, at least temporarily, from facing our fallibility” (p.179). After Father Brenden Flynn leaves due to her accusation, Sister Aloysius is left with an overwhelming feeling of doubt. This doubt exists because she did not wait until she had enough information to make her assumption, much like the people in The Hunt did when they made their false