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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: am convicted are wrong and unjust laws, and the system under which
I have suffered a wrong and unjust system. But, somehow, I have
got to make both of these things just and right to me. And exactly
as in Art one is only concerned with what a particular thing is at
a particular moment to oneself, so it is also in the ethical
evolution of one's character. I have got to make everything that
has happened to me good for me. The plank bed, the loathsome food,
the hard ropes shredded into oakum till one's finger-tips grow dull
with pain, the menial offices with which each day begins and
finishes, the harsh orders that routine seems to necessitate, the
dreadful dress that makes sorrow grotesque to look at, the silence,
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