Pride...is something to fear. This quote is directly connected with the story “The Scarlet Ibis”. Brother’s past now haunts him. Pride is a powerful thing and it's not always good.
One of the seven deadly sins is the act of having too much pride. Pride in general is not an evil feeling to have. It is human to have pride in oneself, but having too much pride is unhealthy and will cause problems somewhere along the way. Two characters who show a harmful amount of pride are Sylvia from Toni Bambara’s “The Lesson” and Sammy John Updike’s “A&P”. A famous quotation states “Pride (arrogance) comes before Destruction... and a haughty spirit, before a fall.”
In the quote written by Lord Castlereagh, he mentions, “When a man is drunk, either with alcohol or selfish pride, he invariably hurts the one he loves.” The short story of Scarlett Ibis written by James Hurst talks about a boy who tries to push harder his little brother to become a normal kid without disabilities, and this leads to a terrible accident. The story of Scarlett Ibis by James Hurst shows how pride relates to the addictions and sins by demonstrating that both can cause damage to the people that they love the most and how someone can be pushed to a limit to be accepted. The story shows that being prideful and addictive are similar because we can hurt ourselves and the people that surround us.
In Arthur Miller’s dramatic play The Crucible, John Proctor, the protagonist, symbolized truth and justice by displaying honor and pride in his name. The change in balance between those two attributes acted as a catalyst in defining moments of the play. In the beginning, Proctor equally reflected both pride and honor in separate events. However, when forced to make a decision, he chose honor over pride. Ultimately, both his honor and pride pushed him to commit the ultimate sacrifice.
Hathorne has there themes that he make very apparent during The Scarlet Letter. These three themes are pride, isolation, and Guilt. When I think of these three themes and reflect on which characters he could be talking about, and it becomes crystal clear. He is talking about Hester when he talks about the first theme pride. This pride comes into play with the scarlet letter, with the A on Hester 's chest.
Pride and Its Consequences “Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”― George Eliot. When you think about pride, you think of something that will benefit yourself or others. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible this is not always the case. There are many instances where pride is a very negative trait Not all of the pride shown throughout The Crucible will benefit those who have it.
The True Meaning of Pride in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage Throughout all of mankind , it is common for one’s hamartia to get the best of oneself. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is novel that revolves around the idea of pride. Taking place in the Civil War with main characters Henry Fleming and Wilson at the battle of Chancellorsville, these young soldiers’ strive for the goal of becoming heros with “a red badge of courage”(Crane 41).
“The Destructors” is a story of the Wormsley Common gang’s destruction of an old house shortly after World War II. The gang consists of teenage boys who meet every day in the parking place next to an old house. Mr. Thomas is the owner of the house. The teenagers consistently harass him and finally destroy his house under Trevor’s leading. In Graham Greene's “The Destructors,” Mr. Thomas’s house symbolizes England after World War II.
People driven into absolute madness will do things they should regret but do not. Pride can cause other negative feelings such as jealousy, envy, and aggression. It can also influence the unreasonable actions people make. No matter what, in the end, karma will always get the person back. Like in the story of Daedalus you see that he contains so much pride to the extent that he killed his nephew.
In the play, Antigone, classical Greek playwright Sophocles, the wise Teiresias wrote that “all men make mistakes” and he explained that “the only crime is pride”. This statement describes the hurt that pride can cause along with the correct path that one should try to follow in order to live a life full of contempt. Although pride, when in the form of growth and knowledge, can help one to reach their fullest potential, it can also lead to destruction and overconfidence in one’s self. Considering the downsides of pride, when one is too focused on themselves, it can lead to a false sense of overconfidence. This can be seen in a personal story that occurred to me about a year ago.
The protagonist from “The Turn of the Screw”, is perceived to be despearate as she tries to achieve her dream but her personal pride leads her to an unstable condition. The author depicts the Governess believing that to attain her goal of gaining attentionby her employer, she must be a hero. Therefore, she invents lies about seeing her predessors haunting her pupils. Nonetheless, the more times James makes the Governess mention the ghosts the more she believes they are real and they, “want to get them (the children)” (82). The Governess is blinded by making it appear she sees the ghosts that she looses herself in her own lies leading her to an unstable condition of not knowing what is real or not.
Many strong leaders have died fighting for what they believe in. Although most of these strong leaders helped to change society for the better, they are not always remembered. Sometimes, these leaders need to be recognized again. The song, “Pride” enforces the importance of these powerful martyrs and justifies that these leaders were only fighting to improve the world. Bono, the author of the song “Pride,” achieves his purpose of emphasizing that many fallen heros died because they were fighting for the greater good of humanity, through the use of powerful allusions, a strong tone, and consistent repetition.
Just like the movie’s title, Pride, the entire movie tells the story of homosexual people coming out of their shells to embrace and be proud of their real identities and their achievements. The article written by Mary Bernstein argues that “identity” has been causally interpreted that its meaning has been obsured. Bernstein discusses identity from three different aspects: identity for empowerment, identity as a goal, and identity as strategy. The movie supports the use of identity as a goal and empowerment as described in Bernstein’s analysis as an effective movement tactic since ultimately the gay pride movement achieved success.
“Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death” (Hurst 2). This is how James Hurst describes pride in his heart-wrenching short story, “The Scarlet Ibis.” What speaks to me most about this quote is its profound truth. For the majority of people, pride is either a positive or negative thing, but what Hurst and I seem to agree about is the fact that pride can be both. It is an undeniable symptom of the human condition, a tool that can either create or destroy, and is responsible for the best and worst parts of history.
Grown men are brought to tears with the pride described by Gilb, but at the same time, the feeling can be so graceful and devout through metaphors. Through comprehension, rhetorical devices, and the tone and structure of Gilb’s essay, we can begin to understand the exact meaning the word “Pride” and what the it’s all
