He realized Cordelia’s wasn’t a flatterer and her love was so genuinely strong words could not express it. Oedipus had both a physical and mental blindness. When he addressed the people assuring them he would find Laius’ killer not knowing he was the killer all along until Teiresias [blind prophet] says it. Details about his birth are revealed during an argument with an older prophet. At the end of the play he gauged out his eyes to show that he was and forever will be blind to the world.
Shakespeare and Bythewood explore the thematic preoccupation of family in the artificial world. In the court familiar relationships are artificial, they are broken by betrayal and the realisation of others values. "To burn the lodging where you used to lie", the use of past tense demonstrates the need to leave at the present tense. Adam warning to Orlando of his brothers betrayal, for wanting to be his equal. Mentioning where an individual sleeps conveys their innocence when an individual sleeps they are no longer in control and their mind takes over, they are innocent of their actions.
Essentially Hobbes believes in a world in which everyone is constantly in jeopardy from each other, a life of fear and restlessness. I do not think Hobbes’ interpretation of human nature is accurate, and is excessively pessimistic and cynical. Hobbes beings by assuming that people are adequately similar in their mental and physical attributes that no one is capable of monopolizing any benefit nor can expect to be able to control the others. Hobbes says, “Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he” (Hobbes 98). Humans are unique in the manner that even if one is physically stronger, the other can use mental faculties to overpower him or her, “For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others” (Hobbes, 98).
Despite this, we must consider that Prospero and Miranda initially took on the role of caring and educating Caliban in replace of his Mother and Miranda endeavours to scold Caliban for being ungrateful regarding her attempts to educate him in Act 1 Scene 2 - “When thou didst not, savage, / Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like / A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes / With words that made them known.” From this, we can gather that Shakespeare is attempting to argue the futility in humans attempting to help one another through Caliban’s rebellion and failure to adopt a moral stance which is another criticism of human nature. It’s possible to consider how the protagonist in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is also unable to take a moral stance when he willingly sells his soul to the devil in return for power and knowledge. Rather than utilising this power in an effective way, he chooses to merely abuse it for things like
He’s useless tricks display vanity and indicate his wastefulness to the audience. The Tempest is a problem play; Prospero is presented with the opportunity for spiteful revenge but realises the importance of forgiveness. Doctor Faustus is a morality play; he never realises the importance of repentance and banishes any opportunity to save himself, which results in his eternal damnation in hell. In the first act of the play, the audience is confronted with a magic fuelled spectacle. We see Prospero with the help or Ariel conjures the tempest.
To put it simply, even today the devil can tempt us, disguised in his various forms. In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” The short story begins as coming of age story and a reflection of life in the middle of the twentieth century, but it quickly evolves into a harsh tale that portrays the ignorance of young girls and the evils of men. The evils of men is demonstrates through Arnold Friend, who is the epitome of a satanic figure. Connie surrenders herself to Arnold Friend at the end. Connie fails to resist the temptation of Arnold Friend which leads to self-ruin.
We must tell him, it will cause more damage if we don’t tell him soon. Come Stylistic Techniques Shakespeare uses personification in line 78 with “his doublet all unbraced”, though unbraced is referring to his shirt it can also be directed to Hamlet himself unbracing reality. A strong image is used in line 83 when Ophelia refers Hamlet to being “ loosed out of hell” this leads us to believe that not only is Hamlet insane but now angered. Syntax is used in line 84 when again Ophelia says that Hamlet “is to speak of horrors”, this again is trying to show Hamlets hostel intentions.
In his cutting critique of industrialization, modernization, and society as a whole, Henry David Thoreau explains the relationship between a man’s self and the revealing characteristics of nature as distinctly hindered by the distractions of society and technology. The encumbrances of an industrialized existence and the quest to obtain property force men to live dormant, unaware of the moral and spiritual growth that can be found in nature. Thoreau insists on a spiritual reconnection with the natural world, and alludes to a rebirth of self. He sets his own spirituality in the beauty, that is, actuality, of nature. Through several key metaphors, Thoreau asserts his views onto the reader’s, and dramatically introduces the imagery in his experiences as a contrast to the toil of a modern man.
Throughout The Tempest Prospero’s character portrays an image of a nearly Nietzchean superhuman capable of disclaiming authority, killing God. He is in control of every situation and event as if the chain of causes and effects would be a conductible melody waiting for an artist’s touch. On the other hand he is very human: a wronged duke and a father, a symbiosis which Shakespeare displayed with the use of Prospero’s garment as a theatrical tool. An artist is the creator, the maker of realities yet he remains human, an animal with feelings and urges, ties only waiting to be cut. The view implied is not
He claims Othello was responsible for his own downfall and demotes Iago to the role of just catalyst. “I told him what I thought and told no more than what he found was apt and true” Equivocations like the witches in Macbeth. Leavis comments on Othello’s perceived ‘self centeredness’ and his ‘pride, sensual possessiveness, appetite and love of loving.’ Quotes to illustrate his pomposity and arrogance, ‘Let him (Brabantio) do his spite (in response to Othello’s rather alarming lack of judgement in secretly marrying a senator’s daughter), my services (things done for Venice) will out-tongue his complaints (over-ride) Desdemona asks, ‘to whom?..with whom?..How?’ (am I a whore?) Othello just responds with ‘Away, away,