Guilt and Regret: Revenge, Redemption, or Ruin
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
- Why is revenge satisfying?
- When, if ever, is revenge appropriate?
- Why is guilt so debilitating?
- What is the appropriate response to regret?
- What allows us to be redeemed? Does the allowance come from within or from others?
- Can we learn anything from guilt and regret?
- How might guilt and revenge ruin a person?
Major Texts
Major Texts
Supplementary Texts
Supplementary Texts
POETRY:
POETRY:
- Auden, W. H. - "Funeral Blues"
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
- Donne, John - "Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)"
- Heaney, Seamus - "Blackberry Picking"
- Henley, William Ernest - "Invictus"
- Herbert, George - "Easter Wings"
- Housman, A. E. - "To an Athlete Dying Young"
- Housman, A. E. - "When I Was One and Twenty"
- Jonson, Ben - "On My First Son"
- Owen, Wilfred - "Dulce et Decorum Est"
- Yeats, W. B. - "When You Are Old"
STORIES:
STORIES:
- Anonymous - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (retold by Susan Thompson)
- Joyce, James - "Araby"