Mean Girls Can Feel Guilty Too

Girls are to Boys as guiltiness is to innocence. Complete opposites. Everyday there are people who do things that they believe may be a perfectly fine thing to do but in the end is something that’s unbelievably wrong. Once again, perfectly fine to unbelievably wrong = complete opposites. Guilt (click here to read and article about people feeling guilty and apologizing) is something that you can have before an action is done, where you realize it and stop yourself from doing something in the first place; it’s also something that can sneak up on you; you realize something was wrong after you do it. This happens to be the case for Cady Heron, Lindsay Lohan, in the movie Mean Girls. When Cady starts going to school she doesn’t exactly know how to deal with friends considering she moved from Africa where she was previously home schooled. When meeting Damian and Janis, they give her the “inside scoop” on everyone, but then they start to get selfish when the popular girls on campus start talking to Cady and inviting her places. They decided they wanted revenge because the popular girls on campus are also the mean girls on campus and have done some unruly things to them in the past. With this, Cady goes along believing it is a good idea at first; she gets sucked into being great friends with them and then turns on Janis and Damian, shortly after she realizes everything she is doing in wrong. She learned that plotting revenge on people could only hurt yourself as it did in Cady’s case. When everyone lost friendships Cady learned from her mistakes and forgave everyone for what she did but she didn’t do it without feeling guilty.
Just like it did for Cady guilt has snuck up on me too. When my little sister pisses me off I just want to sock her one and get revenge but then guilt comes and says “don’t do it, you’ll get yourself into more trouble.” I have to admit, half the time ill do something back anyway and then she’ll go crying off to mommy and daddy and complain but that’s beside the point. Sometimes if I realized I hurt her I’ll feel sorry; guilt comes pouring over me like the water in a water cooler comes pouring over a coach’s head after winning an important game. You either expect it to come and you just don’t know when, or it just comes out of now where. Guilt will sometimes strike me before I take action and save me from getting in trouble or even hurting someone. Guilt is a powerful thing. Everyone one time or another experiences guilt whether it’s when they misbehave towards parents, betray a friend, or plainly just doing something stupid.
In Macbeth, many of the characters feel guilt. They get a guilty conscience about something they did. For Macbeth he gets a guilty conscience about having Banquo killed and imagines him sitting at the table for dinner with them.Lady Macbeth(click here to read about her guilt journey) also experiences guilt about murdering people; so bad that she sleep walks and talked to people about all the secrecy going on. When feeling guilty people tend to go through hard times. Guilt can make you confess to things or even make things worse. People can have a hard time dealing with guilt that can cause them to do act in an un-orderly nature as it did to lady Macbeth. Guilt is to shame as innocence is to purity. Complete synonyms.