Hercules, the strongest among men in Ancient Greece, was taken by madness set upon him by the goddess Hera. Being the wife of Zeus, she loathed Hercules, because he was the illegitimate son of Zeus and a mortal woman. This madness drove Hercules to kill all of his children and his wife Megara. (Hamilton, 96) Now isn’t that convenient? This story is proof, that throughout history, human beings have refused to take responsibility for their actions, just as they do now.
It is in the nature of humanity to place blame, whether it is called for or not. Blame is something that people usually use as an excuse for their own bad behavior.() For example, when a student in today’s schools behaves badly in class and must be reprimanded by the teacher, the parents of these misbehaving children will often come into the school and scold the teacher for doing his or her job. Parents do this because they believe by reprimanding their child, the teacher is, in a way, reprimanding their parenting. This is due to the fact that in most cases a child's behavior is a reflection of the child’s upbringing, and instead of just being embarrassed and trying a new way of handling their children, parents say the teacher was in the wrong.
These kinds of actions are similar to the acts done during witch trials throughout the centuries. A times when women, and occasionally men, were blamed for others’ misfortune through means of black magic. “Witches” were blamed for things like the death of livestock and crops, when in actuality the owners of the livestock and crops just hadn't tended to them properly. () They don’t admit this because it’s not in human nature to admit fault, even when admitting fault is what a person needs to do to achieve self improvement. Th...
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... to yourself, and thats the hardest part to recovering from drug or alcohol abuse. In fact that’s one of the hardest parts of life in general, admitting you have a problem. It hurts and it’s embarrassing but it’s one of the only ways to grow and heal. It’s like walking around on a bad ankle. It’s like taking away someone's crutch. It’s uncomfortable and it’s scary but it’s what you must do. It’s what the doctor recommends.
It’s time that everyone got rid of their crutches, of their excuses and blame. We need to fix ourselves to help the generations behind us. We need to except ourselves. For the good and the bad. It’s difficult, and we as humans want easy, but what we want isn’t always what we need. Actually, it hardly ever is. So people need to get through the discomfort and the work to feel better. To stop hating others, and to come to terms with who they are.
Numerous individuals may be quick to accuse others of wrong doings that are not necessarily the truth. In this matter, it is evident in the Salem Witch Trails, which happened in 1692, where individuals accused their own neighbors of witchcraft because of unforeseen death or sickness. Moreover, it led to 200 innocent human-beings that were accused of worshiping the devil’s work, which led to 19 helpless individuals who were hanged because of these untruthful allegations. Furthermore, the Salem Witch Trails were a historical event that is due to lack of knowledge, selfishness, and inhumanity.
Why is it that we as human beings feel the need to blame someone for every negative situation, which occurs? If we really look at the situation with any great depth, we may discover that an almost endless amount of things may be 'blamed' for the tragedy blaming an individual is pointless - only fate can really be blamed.
	Even though most people believe those young girls were the only ones accused, also grown men and women were too. History tells about how a neighbor’s pig fell astray into the Nurse family’s yard and Rebecca Nurse yelled at her neighbor. Soon after the neighbor feel ill and died of a stroke.
There is no doubt in mythology that the king of gods, Zeus, is the most supreme and powerful, ruling the sky. He controls the thunderbolt, a symbol of power feared by both gods and mortals. The Greeks and Romans honored Zeus above all other gods. He is without mistake, the god of all gods. Their stories of Zeus are plenty; his designs have molded mythology from his birth. Zeus' victory in outwitting his intelligent wife, Metis, by swallowing her pregnant, was the gateway used by the Greeks and Romans to show Zeus as the greatest god to come since his father and grandfather. However, as the stories of the gods and goddesses unfold, the Greeks and Roman's interpretation of Zeus' characteristics are different. Zeus is always upheld as the king of gods, but his other personal attributes to his godly rein are conflicting. Zeus' characteristics of fearfulness of female deities, cunningness and use of trickery, and lust in Ovid's Metamorphoses compared to the Theogony are opposed due to Hesiod's true respect of Zeus versus Ovid's lack of respect of Jupiter in Roman mythology.
I think this practice is best exemplified when people are stuck in agitated/unsettled states. For example, when there’s a long line at the bank and a specific person is taking a long time with one of the tellers. Someone in line who is late for work might begin to project the negative aspects of his/her situation towards the person holding up the line, who is unintentionally making him or her even more late. The person working with the teller likely has no intention on making the person in line late, however it is easier to blame others for our situation rather than to accept personal responsibility. I see it more as way to push our own problems on
The people also deflected the blame to another person, here are a few examples. "Les Goodman's the one. His car started! Let's wreck it," another is "What about Steve's radio. He's the one that called them. Smash the radio. Get me a hammer. Get me something." The last one is... "It isn't the kid...it's Bob Weaver's house." There are a lot more than that, but they all have the same explanation, and that is, none of them wanted to get blamed because they saw the things that they said they were going to do to the person when they found whoever it
Whenever something goes wrong there is a reason for it. More often than not this comes around to the fault of a human being, and in cases where it can be hard to determine that culprit usually did the action unintentionally. Just because that person did not purposefully commit a discretion does not mean that it was not their fault. Somewhere along the road before deciding on the wrong choice the culprit could have looked over something or made a smaller wrong decision which over time escalated into a major problem. Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, reveals how everyone must take full liability for their actions, even if the results of those actions were indirect or unintentional; without this responsibility, side effects of actions would cause widespread harm.
Madness is a fundamental part of Greek tragedy that creates and intense, disturbing drama. In the case of Heracles, he is brought down at the height of his glory. He is a man that achieves his success through his own abilities. He is a hero that is strong, willful and lusts for experience. Even in his early childhood, he expressed traits of great hero where he destroys a snake in his childhood, he is very athletic, he hunts a lion at the age of eighteen, Furthermore, his labors represent brute strength where he deals with lions, carnivorous horses, and raging bulls. Also, Heracles has a twin brother, Iphicles, who is very much opposite to him. Iphicles, is set out to become a king and live in a dignified manner, while Heracles is made into a slave. This shows that Heracles had a troubles childhood where he wasn't treated to a normal, conditional family. however, Heracles is also pig-headed and directly challenged the gods sometime. Even though he has super-human strength, he is no match for the divine. Heracles brings much misery to the life around him, wh...
Hercules has an interesting origin. Hercules was conceived by Zeus of divine nature and a mortal woman named Alcmene. Zeus appeared to her one night disguised as her husband Amphitryon. Amphitryon then appeared to her “again” causing her to have two sons one of divinity and the other of morality, their names were Hercules and Iphicles. Hera, not too pleased by her husband’s deceitful ways made Zeus swear that the next descendant of Perseus to be borne will be the high king. Zeus agrees to this thinking that the next borne will be Hercules, but Hera has plenty of tricks up her sleeve. The goddess determined to rob Hercules of his birthright enlist the help of Lithia, goddess of childbirth. Lithia speeds up Eurystheus birth, and slows down Hercules’ and Iphicles’ birth. Hercules and Iphicles would probably never have been born if it wasn’t for Galanthis, a close friend and servant of Alcmene, who fooled Lithia by telling the goddess that Hercules had already been born. This conundrum bemused Lithia long enough for baby Hercules to be born. Unfortunately Eurystheus had already ...
In Salem Possessed, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum theorize that opposed to the traditional approach of saying trauma or disease caused the mass hysteria in Salem, it was the way in which the strange behavior of the girls was interpreted as witchcraft by the adults in the community that caused such chaos. In fact, when the first occurrence of affliction happened, nearly a month had passed before the girls made any accusations. During this time, it would’ve been so easy to blame the girls themselves for witchcraft. So why instead were the girls treated as innocent victims in all of this? Simply put, the witchcraft accusations were guided by adults and it was only once the girls were influenced to do so did they started to point fingers.
Scapegoating is when a person irrationally blames their failures on others, therefore not taking responsibility themselves. The “scapegoating theory says that prejudiced people believe they are society’s victims” (Schaefer 38). It is always someone else’s fault that things do not go their way and the person “… transfers the responsibility for failure to some vulnerable group” (Schaefer 38).
Hercules was adventurous manly because of what he was sentenced to do. Hercules was driven mad by the goddess Hera, and in frenzy he killed his own children. To atone for his crime he was sentenced to perform a series of tasks or labors for his cousin Eurytheus, the king of Mycenae.
People pass the blame to other people, things or events by keeping their hands clean.
Are some people more to blame for a crime then others and if so why? This is a question which many people wonder about today. I think the answer is yes. People who are brought up in a certain way are more likely to commit a certain crime than others. In he following I will consider why certain people are more to blame then others for the crimes that they commit.