Invading Privacy: Can it be Justified?

I feel that is OK to invade someone's privacy depending on what type of situation it was. In Hamlet, I feel that it was not OK for Polonius to steal Hamlet's love letter to Ophelia and read it to Claudius because that is Ophelia's and Hamlet's relationship and quite frankly, it's no one's business, but theirs.



For instance, one way that is justified to invade someone's privacy is if you are still living in your parent's home and they pay for your phone bill, I feel that they have the right to check your text messages if they're suspicious of their child selling drugs or such things like that. They pay for your phone and you live under their roof, therefore they have the right to invade your privacy to an extent. Now if there was an instance where the parents' daughter has a diary or a journal I feel that there is no way to justify to go through the child's diary.



Also another way that it is OK to invade someone's privacy if there is a suspicion that dangerous activity may occur. For example, if there is a group of kids that is planning to bring guns to a school or something like that, then i feel it is alright for the cops, parents, or principal to invade the kids' privacy for the safety of others.

England Torture

In Shakespere's England, torture was the punishment that was given to people who broke the laws. The torture the England government had used was widely ranged from public shame to the most brutal and gruesome torture methods. The government of England used torture as punishment to intimidate and scare anyone who had ideas of commiting crimes. A few torture methods that were used were The Iron Maidan, The Ducking Stool, The French Rack, and the worst of all, being drawn and quartered. The Iron Maidan, a tomb looking machine, was lined with long spikes inside on its walls and the victims were put in the and the doors of the machine would shut. Thus, the sharp spikes would impail the victims body.

I feel that capital and corporal punishment does work. In England they used this punishment to scare ppeople and it did work. For example, if 50 people were going to rob a store and the non-capital punishment was 5 years in jail, all 50 peopple might do it compared to the capital punishment was going to be torture, then only 30 people might commit this crime. Therefore capital and corporal punishment does work to an extent. People aren't afraid of doing jail time, but when they think of the torture they would have to go through for commiting a crime they might think twice before they commit that crime.

Background Music To My Favorite Odyssey Scene

My favorite scene from the Odyssey was Book 22: Slaughter in the Hall. I like this scene the most because it is a great action scene and because this is when Odysseus arrives home and confronts the suitors. It is sort of how the happy ending starts. During this scene the suitors are trying to win a arrow shooting contest, so they can be the king of Ithaca and Penelope's husband. No one can even string the arrow, except the old beggar which is really Odysseus in disguise. The doors to the room then shut and Odysseus shoots the bow throw all 12 axes. Then his disguise is removed and the suitors realize who he is. That is where Odysseus and Telemachus start to kill all of the suitors and try to retake his home from the suitors.

I like this scene the most because it is the best action scene in the book, and it's the most goriest. I can't really relate to this scene because I never had to fight suitors off of my land. I just chose this scene because of how action-packed and intense it was. This scene is inspiring to me because it shows Odysseus standing up for his land and home and killing all of the men who had tried to take it over because they thought he would never return home from his voyage to Troy. Everyone had counted on Odysseus to never return and he finally came home and took control of his kingdom.

A song that I would use to go with this scene would be like a hard metal song. I would use a song from Mudvayne called "The End of All Things to Come". I would use this song because it has a hard rock beat that would go good with a gory murder scene. Also the song talks about killing everything, which is sort of how Odysseus looks at the suitors. The link to the lyrics is, http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-end-of-all-things-to-come-lyrics-mudvayne.html