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In each person there always exist two different sides: pride and shame. As being sensitive, vulnerable and have a lot of responsibilities, it seems that women are more likely to be ashamed than men. During hundreds of years, there is an acknowledgement that women have to depend on men both physically and psychologically. It can be a shame for women because a great number of them are now still under the control of men, they cannot decide anything themselves without the allowance of their husbands, for example. However, the bitterest fact is when a woman is considered a toy for men to have fun and take advantage of. That woman has struggle inside herself between pride and shame, she wants to escape from the shadow of shame but there is no way out for her. That is the story of a whore-lady in a Vietnamese short movie “Ashamed is an adjective”. No matter how hard she tried, she died in ashamedness in the end of the movie: once she is a whore, she would be a whore for her whole life. The same situation happens to Mayella Violet Ewell, a character who also has both pride and shame in the novel “To kill a mockingbird” by Harper Lee but in the end, her shame and her lie leads a nice man to the death. However, life is very complicated; sometimes things happened unexpectedly and somehow the truth is too ashamed for people to accept. Brave and strong people should be the one who can face the shame and say the truth, not only for their pride but also for the others’ pride.