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- 5051: Macbeth: The Weird Sisters
- ... took over her and she committed suicide. The witches ruined Macbeth's life with the temptation that led him to become a murderer. Knowing that they ruined his life they then wanted to ruin his death. They told him their three prophecies. The apparitions predicted the death of Macbeth, but he was too blind to realize. They told him about an armed head, which said to beware of Macduff. They also said "a bloody child," which meant no man born of a ...
- 5052: Macbeth: Letter From Lady Macbeth To Macbeth
- ... that this will only be a momentary clarity. And I also know that I can not live with this torment of my mind for much longer. I have to get away from all this, and death is the only way I know that will put my soul to rest. Ever since the day of Duncans death we have drifted apart and all I ask is that you realise that this was not the way I had planned we would part. So I leave you dear husband, only hoping that you know ...
- 5053: King Lear: Sense of Renewal
- ... s positive attitude is reflective of hope in society and it's conditions. However, Shakespeare undermines this when Edgar goes against his own words and deceits his father. In Scene XI, Edgar fakes Gloucester's death to provide his father with a miracle. He does this in an attempt to encourage his father with strength and happiness. Yet this is undermined in the fact that Edmund tricked Gloucester to begin with ... reader of this tragedy may have begun to assert. The fact that Lear dies with the illusion that Cordelia is alive, reveals that he dies with the mistake of hope. It is as if her death is the final symbol representing the triumph of immorality and the fact that the tragedy in this case, outweighs the affirmation. The ending of King Lear is extremely intense and depressing. The play ends with ...
- 5054: King Lear: Rejection
- ... family by his side. She was the only one honest with Lear and she pays for her honesty. In the end the relationship is restored. She is by his side until the time of her death. For the first time Lear realizes that he had been asking too much from her and at his own expense for she had more than enough love in her heart for him all along. The ... Far off, methinks, I hear the beaten drum : Come father, I'll bestow you with a friend ( King Lear IV.vi ). Edgar far surpassed the allegations Edmund built up around him and at Gloucester's death, received his father's blessing. Rejection plays a big role in the motives and actions of the characters in " King Lear. " Everyone deals with rejection in their own way and Shakespeare made this very clear ...
- 5055: Oedipus Versus Creon
- ... who does the judging judges things all wrong” (75). Creon, just like Oedipus, accused the guard of something he didn’t do. He lacked proof and he had little evidence, but he proclaimed him to death anyway. Oedipus and Creon are alike in yet another way. They both committed vile acts of hubris. Both of them went against the gods for feckless and pointless reasons. Oedipus committed hubris by insulting Tiresias ... even greater act of hubris. He refuses to bury the body of Polynices, the brother of Antigone, who tried to attack Thebes. This is a direct violation of the gods and all their laws of death. When Antigone is confronted by Creon about her illegal burial of Polynices, she claims that “it wasn’t Zeus, not in the least, who made this proclamation. (82). She adds that “The justice, dwelling with ...
- 5056: Is Hamlet Mad?
- ... words, but I can look at the evidence supporting or dispelling each argument and come to my own conclusion. Hamlet is obviously experiencing grief and despair right from the beginning of the novel, with the death of his father and his uncle's seizure of the throne and rapid weddign of Hamlet's mother, and we can observe his great grief bordering on irrational suicidal tendencies as early as Act II ... to the notion that he is mad. Different people give different reasons - Polonius says "... I have found // the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy". The Queen thinks that the only reason is "His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage", whereas Polonius thinks it is because his daughter rejected Hamlet, after he himself ordered her to: "I will be brief :Thy noble son is mad. // Mad I call it." But ...
- 5057: Hamlet and Gertrude: Love or Hate
- ... the fact that his father had returned showed that this chain had been disrupted by some evil in the world of man. That he had returned as a ghost could mean only one thing, his death was not an accident. The ghost beseeches Hamlet to avenge him but warns him, "taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught . . . leave her to heaven". This statement by the ghost was left open enough for Hamlet to develop many questions about his mother's actual involvement in his father's death. At first, Hamlet's rage is confined to his uncle Claudius but quickly and violently shifts towards his mother, dwelling upon the horrible thought that she might have been involved. "Oh most pernicious women!" He ...
- 5058: Hamlet: In His Right Mind's Eye
- ... as the sea and the wind when both contend which is mightier.”(4.1.7) With these characters convinced of his madness, Hamlet is able to carry out several plans to avenge his father's death. The logic he uses in his plots is proof of a sane mind. He successfully uses the players to reveal Claudius is the murderer by changing the play they perform to reenact the murder of ... his inability to act swiftly. Other than that, it is almost indisputable that Hamlet's madness was nothing more than an act, devised to provide a facade for his plan to avenge his father's death.
- 5059: Macbeth: Independence and Failure
- ... king and thanes. The thanes fought “rebellious arm ‘gainst arm” to curb “his lavish spirit” (I, ii, 56-7). Macbeth's stature increased to fill the space in the bundle of limbs opened by the death of the Thane of Cawdor for “what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” (I, ii, 67). “When we first see him [Macbeth] he is already invaded by those fears which are to render him ... were once friends which shows his lack of strength to stand erect (II, i, 11). A soon as the deed is done, Macbeth falls: his control and independence falls. His plan to use Banquo's death to restore order and give him strength did not work. Before all the thanes except for Macduff, Macbeth has a brief moment of insanity, in which he loses all control and reveals his true strength ...
- 5060: Hamlet: Theories Of Hamlet's Delay In Killing Claudius
- ... There are several theories about why Hamlet, the main character of Shakespeare's masterpiece, Hamlet, delays in killing his Uncle, King Claudius. As the son of a murdered noble, Hamlet is obligated to avenge the death of his father. However, the act is never performed until the end of the play... quite some time after Hamlet discovered Claudius was his father's killer. Some historians and literary experts would say Hamlet ... is an intriguing story... and an intriguing character. I understand now why Hamlet is perceived as one of the most complex literary characters of all time. Why does Hamlet put off avenging his father's death for so many months? He's a melancholic and he suffers from a severe Oedipal complex.
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