Monday 6 December 2010

Journal Entry 36, Title: The Saddest of All Prisons

I agree that the saddest of all prisons is a person’s own heart. Our own heart is a cage that can shut off everything outside, and conceal everything inside. I think that many people in the world still carry guilt in their heart, like the people in the past. One of the examples of people concealing their guilt in the past is Arthur Dimmesdale. He was unable to confess because of the society he lived in. One of the modern examples is the North Korea president. The president jumped off a cliff and committed suicide, I think he hid some secrets in his heart and became more and more uncomfortable, so the guilt eventually drove him to death. I believe that the guilty secrets hidden in people’s heart can in fact isolate people from others. Arthur Dimmesdale began to feel uncomfortable being with other people, and the Korean president committed suicide without noticing his family. I think people who carry guilty secrets inside their hearts can never be happy; they can only gain happiness by confessing. Arthur Dimmesdale became happier after he confessed to the public, so I think whenever you have these kinds of secrets hidden in your heart; you should confess to someone and let the secrets out.



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