Guilt (emotion)
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Guilt is primarily an emotion experienced by people who believe they have done something wrong. From a legal perspective it can also refer to the condition of having done something legally wrong, regardless of how one feels about it.
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In literature
Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat", and many other works of literature.
Guilt is a major theme in many works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is an almost universal concern of novelists who explore inner life and secrets.
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See also
- Psychopaths show a lack of feelings of empathy, guilt and remorse.
- Catholic guilt
- Confession
- Conscience
- Emotional blackmail
- Catholic guilt
- Georges Bataille
- Good faith
- Guilt society
- Guilty pleasure
- Mea culpa
- Nietzsche
- Postponement of guilt
- Remorse
- Shame
- Survivor guilt
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