Richard is bitter, deformed, not loved, and sickened by peace, so he will set his brothers up for their death and rise up. Richard misleads Clarence first to get him placed in prison because his plan is to get rid of the king before Clarence has to die. It is amazing that it is obvious that Richard is the
He is constantly put on a pedestal, "the agony with which this public veneration tortured him. It was his genuine impulse to adore the truth, and to reckon all things shadow-like, and utterly devoid of weight or value” (Hawthorne 145). Dimmesdale felt as though he could not let anyone know his undisclosed sin either, in a worry that the public eye would judge him negatively. Specifically,
They seem to be indifferent to the fact that they have killed someone because assassination merely becomes their ‘job.’ In a similar manner, Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison, is inclusive of the same insensitiveness and indifference towards the death and murdering of people. The narrator says, “I lunge forward aiming at his stomach. It is a lightening, instinctive move…I become insane…I want to strike again and again.”(Harrison, 26-27) Since this was an “instinctive” move, he didn’t even think over the fact that he is taking someone’s life nor have any humane feelings which prove that he has become inhumane towards a person’s life. In addition, a humane individual would experience feelings of regret and guilt, but instead he has the urge to stab him continuously. He becomes one of the negative byproducts of the war because it causes him to become “insane” and inconsiderate towards the sentimental values associated with death.
Furthermore, when the youngest drunkard receives another chance at penance, he declines the offer once again. "To men in such a state the Devil sends/ Thoughts of this kind, and has full permission/ To lure them on to sorrow and perdition;/ For this young man was utterly content/ To kill them both and
Hamlet observes that “a king may go a progress through the guts of a begger.” Obviously, he has annoyed the King, the theme that he suggested as well is saying that the King is of no more importance than a beggar and is worth nothing. Suggesting that something as big has the same equal value of something big. 5. The King contrived Hamlet’s death by sending Hamlet away to England of which where Claudius has sent a letter telling the King to kill him. 6.
All people are born sinners. Natural men must be reborn to be saved; “…hell is waiting for them…” (Edwards 46). These views are that of Jonathan Edwards in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Edwards belonged to a religion that was lingering and was close to disappearing due to the growing numbers of Christians, so he used figurative language and imagery in order to scare people back into the Puritan way of life. “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downward with great weight and pressure toward hell.” (Edwards 47).
‘why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature.’ This quote tells us that Macbeth has thought up the idea of killing the king and that his ambition is growing so much it is beginning to take over his morals, and is clouding his judgment. Again Shakespeare uses the natural imagery because killing the king is the most unnatural thing you can do as he is omnipotent and it is like killing God, this shows that although Macbeth knows he is thinking of the most unnatural deed on earth he is still contemplating it as his ambition is so strong. This has a worrying effect on the audience as, if Macbeth is so easily manipulated by one thought or idea what is he capable of with other influences. This quote could also illustrate that Macbeth is weak and absent minded as he does not think about what he is doing or about what he is considering
Here he definitely doesn’t this of his plan of defeat. Furthermore, Romeo said, “… Now Tybalt take the “villain” back again that late thou gavest me for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company”. (3.1.116-121). Inherently, Romeo tells Tybalt to take back his insult for Mercutio’s soul is above them waiting for Tybalt to be slayed and keep him company. Meaning; he should definitely take back his insult or he will be fought and killed for the insult he had happened to have directed at
For example, after Tom Robinson is shot, Mr Underwood compares his death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds”, and at the end Scout thinks that hurting Boo Radley would be like “shootin’ a mockingbird”. Lee Harper continually uses the theme around the threat that hatred, prejudice, and ignorance pose to the innocent. Characters such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are not prepared for the evil that they encounter, and, as a result, they are destroyed. Harper has used the theme of a mockingbird on the character Arthur “Boo” Radley. Boo is a man who is a recluse and is a prisoner in his own home because he stabbed his own father in the leg with scissors.
His guilty conscience takes the form of paranoia, almost to the point of schizophrenia, as he foresees his doom which can never be avoided. After killing the king, Macbeth claims: Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep'-the innocent sleep... The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast