Writing

Write a paragraph, depicting the most grusome of stories. Then take that character who performed you grusome act and make him something different, reverse time and give him mental illness perhaps. View your own character differently. Make it so that his grusome deed was not his fault at all, or was it? Do we have the right to analyze a character that we don't completely understand? If we don't know a characters background, life experiences or mental state, do we have the right to judge their actions?

How do we analyze the Big Question?

We need to read. Observe your immediate response to reading something like Crime and Punishment, who's side are we on? Analyze your reasons for supporting whatever character you support, and again, why do you think your analysis is correct?

We often say what a character in a book "should have done" in a situation. Some course of action that we feel was morally correct, and contrary to the action taken. We think we're right. What if we aren't right? What makes us think that the morals we uphold are the morals the characters should have upheld? What would make us think we can judge a characters action? What makes our interpritation of symbols correct? Are we right? Is our perception and interpritation of literature right? We like to think we are right, but let's take a step back, what makes us right?