"Prince of Tides"

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This paper studies the novel "Prince of Tides" by Pat Conroy. The author of this paper looks at how one communicates about shame, particularly over childhood abuse. The paper examines the responses of each of the book's main characters to shame and tries to understand how it affects their psyche.

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"Clearly, shame can make a person feel awkward, powerless, and painfully alien. Furthermore, it can make a person feel trapped and exposed in vulnerability, terrified, undefended, and profoundly unlovable. Finally, it can make a person feel singled out as the object of scorn or laughter. Yet, even within shames rage and blame, the emotion remains powerless to reform and serves only to overwhelm its victim with a disordered sense of responsibility makes the victim feel bad about himself."

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