Medea: Looking For Revenge
.... of women and what transpires
in the play. Jason decides that he wants to divorce Medea and marry the
princess of Corinth, casting Medea aside as if they had never been married.
This sort of activity was acceptable by Greek standards, and shows the
subordinate status of the woman, who had no say in any matter like this.
Even though some of Medea's actions were not typical of the average
Greek woman, she still had attitudes and emotions common among women. For
instance, Medea speaks out against women's status in society, proclaiming that
they have no choice of whom to marry, and that a man can rid themselves of a
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Oedipus Rex
.... When they almost ran him over Oedipus attacked them killing the
bodyguards and his father, thinking that they were highway bandits, and by doing
so he unwittingly fulfilled the prophecy. When he realizes this he is
devastated. This really contributes to the theme, that you cannot escape your
past. The fact that he killed a king and his father no less, is a major factor
in his exile later in the story.
When he discovers that King Laios was his real father he sees that by
not running away that he could have prevented this whole catastrophe. This just
goes to show that hindsight is always 20/20, Oedipus saw this and real .....
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Oedipus Rex
.... blames it all on him:
And I'll tell you what I think:
You planned it, you had it done, you all but
Killed him with your own hands: if you had eyes,
I'd say that the crime was yours, and yours alone.
(1.2.331-334)
Teiresius is a blind prophet, and it is possible that if Oedipus had listened to
him in the first place, his internal suffering may have been much less severe.
He should have accepted what he had to say as fact no matter how unbelievable.
Oedipus
I think that I myself may be accursed
By my own ignorant edict.
Jocasta
You speak strangely.
It makes me tremble to look at yo .....
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The Symbol Of Blood In Macbeth
.... to kill them. Again, blood is being used to describe
treason, murder and death. In Act 5, Scene 1 - the sleepwalking scene,
while Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking, there are constant references to the
evil deeds that Macbeth and herslef have committed, most of which include
references to blood. She goes through the motions of washing her hands
saying "Out damned spot! Out, I say" in reference to the blood that stained
her hands after smearing it all over the servants. She also refers to
Duncan's murder saying : "Yet who would have thought the old man to have so
much blood in him!". All these references are to murder and both include
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The Reasons Why Macbeth Is More Guilty By His Actions Then Lady Macbeth Is By Hers
.... doing it. Lady Macbeth did a
little more than just talk about it though. She also urged Macbeth into
doing it and that is what makes her part of this crime, but she is not as
guilty as Macbeth. He really didn't have to listen to what his wife said.
Macbeth had a mind of his own and he could make his own decision. The
other murders that Macbeth was involved in were not committed by him, but
were ordered by him. The people who did the killing had no choice, they had
to do it, because they worked for Macbeth. Macbeth knew this and was a bit
more guilty in these murders then lady Macbeth was when she urged him. The
idea of killi .....
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The Supernatural In Macbeth
.... also relied on the
supernatural by her soliloquy of calling upon the evil spirits to give her
the power to plot the murder of Duncan without any remorse or
conscience(Act I, Scene V, ll.42-57). The three sisters are capable of
leading people into danger resulting in death, such as the sailor who never
slept(Act I, Scene III, ll.1-37).
Lady Macbeth has convinced her husband Macbeth to murder King Duncan. On
the night they planned to kill Duncan, Macbeth is waiting for Lady Macbeth
to ring the signal bell to go up the stairs to Duncan's chamber. He sees
the vision of the floating dagger. The interest of the dagger is that it
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Macbeth: Man Of Established Character
.... deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. But while he
destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are
obscured in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we
have said, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in
order that he may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and
"Bellona's bridegroom"' he values success because it brings spectacular
fame and new titles and royal favor heaped upon him in public. Now so long
as these mutable goods are at all commensurate with his inordinate desires
- and such is the case, up until he covets t .....
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Macbeth: A Good Man
.... sign of prudence and
logic as he slayed king Duncan, and hired assassins to murder his friend
Banquo. Macbeth displayed his temerity in act IV scene 1 saying, "_from
this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my
hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done;_
"
Macbeth was no longer the logical, thinking man whom many admired. He had
become reckless, acting with only his passion and not his mind. The
tragedy of the murders he brought on fair Scotland was a direct result of
this violation of the criterion of a good man.
The most apparent flaw, and perhaps the most tragi .....
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Antigone
.... told
him what he did was wrong. At first Creon did not agree, but then after
Teiresias gone. He realized what he did was wrong so he called his servants to
release Antigone. But it was too late, a messenger came with the bad news that
Creons son had killed himself. The story did not stop there, another terrible
news came to Creon that the queen is dead. When Creons wife heard the news of
her own son killed himself, she put violence upon herself and died. Now Creon
opens his eyes and see who is right to judge. He had learn a lesson of wisdom in
a hard way.
The Antigone has many arguments and it is hard to fingure out which .....
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Macbeth: Imagery
.... upon him, like a loose and badly fitting garment, belonging to
someone else:
New honours come upon him,
Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould,
But with the aid of use.
(1.3.144)
The second, most important chain of imagery used to add to the atmosphere
is that of the imagery of darkness. In a Shakespearean tragedy a special
tone, or atmosphere must be created to show the darkness and blackness in a
tragedy. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the design of the witches, the guilt
in Macbeth's soul, and the darkness of the night to establish the
atmosphere. All of the remarkable scenes take place at night or in som .....
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Macbeth: Tragic Hero
.... what the witches said about
Banquo's son becoming the king. Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would
reach his ambition without problems.
Macbeth, who now no longer needed any encouragement from Lady Macbeth,
started to leave her in ignorance of his plans. Near the end of the play,
Lady Macbeth sleepwalked and had a dream about the killing of Duncan and
Banquo. She died because of all this pressure and her guilt about the
murder. Soul of Macbeth have been destroyed since Macbeth love Lady
Macbeth very much, as shown in Act I, Sc. 5, p.58, "My Dearest Love."
The power of nemesis is shown clearly at the end of the play when Macd .....
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Merchant Of Venice Essay
.... own house, not letting her out, and not
letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to:
"Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum...
..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements.
Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter
My sober house." 3
Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry
little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also
mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, even to the point
where he complains about all of the money he's spending in a search to find
her.
"Why, ther .....
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