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…Murder Can’t Be Forgiven. A person can be involved in many different kinds of crimes. Each crime has its own punishment. Sometimes you get away with bail, or by serving community hours, and at other times you can be thrown to jail for a more…

…, and justifiably so. In Oedipus the King, Sophocles justifies the gods’ actions by dramatizing the effects of Oedipus choices to avoid his god-given predestined fate. Once Oedipus made the decision to avoid his fate, the gods then decided to punish him for his…

…succeeded in presenting themselves as either a good role model or a rather appalling role model. Three articles portray some athletes as crime-committing people. Some manage to escape the punishments due to the power of money, while other are unable…

…deeds performed while he is on the throne. Second, Creon will be forgotten because he decides to execute Antigone. Her punishment is to be locked in a blocked cave until she dies. Although later on in the story, Creon does decide to free her, it is too…

…; and for the futility of her punishment. In the first scene, Hawthorne uses the scaffold to explain how Hester can not believe that the “A” and the baby are real. In the second scaffold scene, Hawthorne tries to convey to the reader that Hester has fully repented for her sin…

…no justice or a lot of it; the punishment however, is always severe. Justice in the Odyssey plays out among these characters: Odysseus and his crew, the suitors, Poseidon, Aeolus, Hyperion, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Melanthius, Melantho, Telemachus, and Polyphemus…

…still a theocracy, they we just a little more lose, so to say. The Puritans in The Scarlet Letter harshly punished those who had beliefs which differed from theirs. Man was viewed as innately corrupt and punishment was used as a warning to keep others from…

…was the right government wasn?t reasonable. So he accepted his punishment without appeal. Whatever the jury gave him is what he was going to accept as his punishment, even if he disagreed with the whole system. Because what a person thinks can?t control what a person…

…used to symbolize the punishments of the sinners. Minos is the guardian of Circle II, the circle of the Lustful. He symbolizes an accusing personality because his job is to give punishments to the sinners. The bodies of the sinners confess the sins…

…In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne's scarlet token liberates her more than it punishes her. First of all, Hester's soul is freed by her admission of her crime; by enduring her earthly punishment, Hester is assured of a place…