The Burden Of Guilt In The Seventh Man

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Many people that survive tragedies carry an overwhelming guilt that comes in the form of a burden for reasons that aren’t entirely based upon reality. They’ll take blame for something that wasn’t there wrong-doing. One example that stands prominent is The Seventh Man in the short story, The Seventh Man. At the end of the anecdote, The Seventh Man finally buries the hatchet and accepts that he had no part in his best friend’s, K.’s, death. That arouses the question, should he forgive himself? Yes, the Seventh Man should forgive himself. As explained by many sources, humans are socially inept of morally repairing their burdens that really are anything that should be burden in the first place. We all carry guilt for what is logically not reasonable,