“Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.” ~ Democritus
“Sometimes before it gets better / The darkness gets bigger / The person that you’d take a bullet for is the one behind the trigger” ~ “Miss Missing You,” Fall Out Boy
In a tragedy, the hero may face some sort of betrayal by a person he trusts. In Othello, the hero trusts Iago without wavering; this misplaced faith contributes to his eventual downfall. Oedipus, on the other hand, sees disloyalty all around him, but in the end he learns that no other person has betrayed him.
In your own words, reflect on a time that you (or someone you know) were betrayed by a friend or loved one. How did that betrayal impact your life? What did that betrayal teach you? Do you think most betrayals can be forgiven? Explain your thoughts.
Your response should be 100-200 words and is due no later than 8:00 a.m. on Friday, October 31, 2014. You will lose points if your response is under the minimum number of words, if it is late, and/or if it does not reflect your own ideas.
A month ago in had a so called ¨friend¨ betray me just because MY bestfriend didnt wanna have anything to do with her , which was not my fault because i cant pick who she wants to be friends with . She told all my secrets to a few people but she mixed it all up into lies and they turned into rumors, I have never been that betrayed by someone and so i no longer trust ANYBODY i sometimes dont even trust telling my own bestfriend stuff because you never know , one day she could turn around and do what the other girl did to me . I honestly will never betray someone in that way because what someone tells me and wants me to keep to myself its not my place to go tell any and everybody just because they did it to me . After all of it Yes i did forgive her but i will never in my life get close with her again or trust her .
ReplyDeleteThat stinks that that happened to you, but it sounds like you learned an important lesson about who you can and can't trust.
DeleteI remember one day when two of my friends were in a fight and another friend named Callie was starting more and more stuff between the two girls. Every Time one of the girls would tell Callie to tell the other girl something Callie would lie to make it seem like they were still mad at each other. Then the girls finally got together and talked it out face to face and they found out that Callie was lying the whole time. Now they know that they can not trust Callie. They learned that it is best to just go talk to the person they are fighting with themselves. I think people should forgive but not trust the person that did it.
ReplyDeleteBetrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations. Often betrayal is the act of supporting a rival group. Betrayal is also a commonly used literary element and is often associated with or used as a plot twist. There are multiple definitions of betrayal but the most common ones would be:
ReplyDelete- to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty
- to be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, or fulfilling
- to reveal or disclose in violation of confidence
- to disappoint the hopes or expectations of; be disloyal to
Your response is copied and pasted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal and from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/betrayal
DeleteI never have been betrayal by nobady, but one of my friend was betrayaled by his girlfriend, it was a week before easter holidays, she was talking with her last boyfriend and then the feelings start growing again, so then the last boyfriend invite her to his house, she accepted and then one day before the holidays at the end of the school I saw them kissing at the bus stop, then she saw me and she told me that I should not tell the current boyfriend that she was dating this other, I didn't do it and then when I told him that his girlfriend was cheating they broke up.
ReplyDeleteIthink people should forgive betrayals, because all of them can be fixed, the betrayal for me is not a personal experience, so I can not talk to much about it, but I think tht if I live one I probably get relly sad but at the end I sure that I will forgive the person that cause it.
I think you did the right thing telling your friend about his girlfriend cheating. I think honesty is important in a relationship, so hopefully she will learn a lesson from the experience.
DeleteLast year i went to scarowinds with one of my friends and my best friend was having this party and 2 other people told her to sent me this stuff like you're not a good friend i can be a better friend than you and all of that they took her phone and said all of that stuff to me and the 2 people told her to say that all of that mean stuff to me it felt like i was betray it wasn't it really hurt my feelings felt like i wasn't there for her and so were still good friends she felt so bad because she told me that it felt like they betrayed her because they made her say all of that mean stuff to me.
ReplyDeleteThat is really mean of those girls! I don't understand why people feel the need to be mean and hurtful sometimes. It sounds like you're better off without those girls as friends.
Deletei dont think that i have ever been betrayed by anyone.But i know alot of people that have been betrayed and most of the time it hurts them because they lost a good friend. i think you should forgive people but only if it happens once but if they keep doing it to you over and over again then you should think if that is a true friend.i think betrayals teach you what kind of friends that you have.
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky not to have ever experienced being betrayed. Sometimes people make selfish and hurtful choices, but it sounds like you would know how to deal with it if someone betrayed you.
Deletei dont think that i have ever been betrayed by anyone.But i know alot of people that have been betrayed and most of the time it hurts them because they lost a good friend. i think you should forgive people but only if it happens once but if they keep doing it to you over and over again then you should think if that is a true friend.i think betrayals teach you what kind of friends that you have.
ReplyDeletemy betrayed is i had a girlfriend in 3rd grade and she had a boyfriend that she didn't tell me about when she said yes to be my girlfriend. it impact me because when she said i have another boyfriend it hurt me inside my heart and now i know to choose the right girl for me in my life and her's. the betrayed teach me to be right in your life and choose the right person for you so pick the one's that got good grades and that is nice to you. some betrayed can be forgotten for a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteWhen I got betrayed I was in middle school. I was in the 8th grade and my "friend" believed something that wasn't true and after our altercation all of my other "friends" didn't act like they wanted to be around me and every time I talked to them they acted so strange towards me. That taught me a great lesson not to trust anyone and not to get close to immature children. After that I moved on from it and try to not let it get to me that much. I will never again let that happen to me.
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