{"id":61,"date":"2007-06-04T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/2007\/06\/04\/isaac-frasier\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:06:50","slug":"isaac-frasier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/isaac-frasier\/","title":{"rendered":"isaac frasier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nature- Frasier is always referring to his true nature as one of wickedness: he seems to see himself as a naturally evil person, held back from time to time from committing evil deeds.<span>  <\/span>First his mother instills in him a sense of honesty (although this is quickly undone by a later mistress).<span>  <\/span>When his future bride wants nothing to do with him, he notes that he has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no restraints of character,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153abandoned to my former course of wickedness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (153).<span>  <\/span>He refers to himself as having a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153thievish calling,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d perhaps attempting to excuse his crimes by arguing they are a part of his nature (154).<span>  <\/span>He says that perhaps he could have been reclaimed early in life \u00e2\u20ac\u0153when education would have been most powerful to restrain from vice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (158).<span>  <\/span><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Stealing-<span>  <\/span>Frasier is obviously a thief, and a prolific one at that: almost his entire narrative is a list of things he stole (cheese, fabric, shoes, money).<span>  <\/span>Interestingly, many of his robberies are settled outside of the justice system\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe settles the score with the people from whom he stole, presumably by returning what wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t his.<span>  <\/span>He tells us how on one occasion he stole a piece of linen and threw it away simply for revenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Conscience- Frasier mention his conscience towards the end of his narrative, once he has already escaped from the prison in which he awaits execution.<span>  <\/span>After taking one pair of shoes and a few pieces of clothing he suddenly, inexplicably, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153found what I had never experienced in all my scene of villainy before, which was the working of a guilty conscience\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (157).<span>  <\/span>It proves to be a rather ineffective sense of guilt, as Frasier says that he ignores it and then continues to steal his way through New England.<span>  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature- Frasier is always referring to his true nature as one of wickedness: he seems to see himself as a naturally evil person, held back from time to time from committing evil deeds. First his mother instills in him a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/isaac-frasier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1,121,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conscience","category-uncategorized","category-nature","category-stealing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/disciplinepunish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}