Chastising Research Paper

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Chastise It’s 11:00 Sunday night, and Brian is sitting in his room on his phone. One minutes he’s scrolling through useless posts on Facebook, and the next he hears his mother’s footsteps on the stairs coming down to his room. He quickly hides his phone under the pillow, but he was a little too slow. His mom comes into his room and sees the light from his phone under his pillow. She flips the light switch on in his room and reveals him “sleeping.” She walks over to his bed, calmly reaches under her pillow and grabs the phone. Brian coincidentally woke up right as she was leaving the room and asked her what she was doing. She turned around and he was “chastised” severely. Two houses down, Jim a boy the same age as Brian , was waiting in his …show more content…

The word chastise is all up to an individual's interpretation of what a severe punishment is. The two boys both felt that they were chastised by their parents, even though they were totally different styles of punishment. It is all based on individual perception of a situation. Back in the Middle Ages, chastise used to be related to a beating, but over time that use of the word has passed. What someone in a modern time feels is chastisement, 100 years ago would not be described the same …show more content…

This made our 9th grade Shakespeare unit so difficult because of how they spoke. Chastise is one of these words that were used in this time. “...But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet.” (Henry VI, Act 1, Scene 5, Lord Talbot/Earl of Shrewsbury) In much of his work he uses abstract words such as chastise and strumpet to convey his point because they were common back then. Over the past 200 years though the use of the word chastise has slowly decreased. This word has become more and more obsolete until it is rarely used. A quote from Sophocles, “Chastisement for errors past, wisdom brings to age at last.” This quote is important, because it shows the immense time period that this word was used. Sophocles, who was a famous play writer around 500 bc, even used this word

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