'I do believe the creatures both are mad, one lately crazed, the other from her birth' (Sophocles 141) In this quote Creon is calling both Antigone and Iseme crazy for feeling sorrow for their brothers death.This displays hubris because he is being ignorant as he is filled with excessive pride. Creon was so insolent towards the two sisters tjay he didn't even understand that they lost a member of their own flesh and blood. Creon also portrays hubris toward the blind prophet. “Do you forget to whom you say it?” (Sophocles, 154) In this quote Creon is asking Teiresias If he forgets who he is talking to. Creon shows hubris because he asks this to Teiresias because he is king and has excessive pride.
Her mother seems to be constantly taking up for her sister, Stella-Rondo. Stella –Rondo is always antagonizing Sister and lying on her to cause problems within the family. Also, Uncle Rondo seems to be the family drunk. Last but not least, Papa-Daddy seems to be an old and cranky gentleman. Her dealing with these individuals has caused her to become very resentful, bitter and jealous.
In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Curley's wife demonstrates multiple time that she is a villain and in many ways is the cause of her own death. One example would be when Curley's wife when she is in the stable with crooks and she slams him. He was just trying to defend himself and Curley's wife made sure he knew that he was beneath him.
Commentary on Queen Extract - Act 4 Scene 7 This short extract from Act 4 Scene 7 of the play gives a deep visual description of the death of Ophelia as described by the Queen. The description is vital to the closure of the scene because it sets a melancholic tone inciting deep sadness into Laertes and bringing the audience to sympathize with him on two levels: that of a brother who has tragically lost his sister and that of a son who has lost his father to a gruesome murder. For this reason the audience is able to discern Laertes’ role as a parallel avenger to Fortinbras as well as being able to see the marked difference between Laertes’ approach to revenge and that of Hamlet’s approach. The way by which the Queen delivers the tragic news is also important to note, it seems that the description has been embellished and romanticized in order for the Queen to acquit herself from any blame which could possibly be placed on her for Ophelia’s death. As with many of the play’s characters the Queen uses her embellished and romanticized language to achieve a level of ambiguity surrounding Ophelia’s death leading the audience to ask many questions which go unanswered.
Gertrude is a hard to read character, but the guilt of her actions with Claudius and her deceased husband comes out when she cry’s, “O Hamlet, speak no more./ thou turn’st my eyes into my very soul,/ and there I see such black and grained spots/as will not leave their tinct.”(III, IV, 89-91). Hamlet berated her to the point where she shows all the bottled shames she’s been concealing, showing her true superego. Hamlet main personality is his superego, which he doesn’t acknowledge, yet let’s out often. In this situation he feels he’s a disappointment to his father and guilty for not reprimanding his sinful uncle in comparison to Fortinbras, saying, “How stand I then,/ that have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d,/excitements of my reason and blood,/ and let all sleep, while to my shame I see/twenty thousand men that, for a fantasy and trick of fame,/ go to their graves like beds…”(IV, IIV, 53-65). In a similar event, Hamlet, months after his father murder, acknowledges his lack of action, his overbearing guilt, and his masked fear of confrontation when he self criticizes, “Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be/ but I am pigeon-liver’d and lack gall/to make oppression bitter, or ere this/ I should ha’ fatted all the region kites/ with this slave’s offal.”(II, II, 563-566).
Comparative Essay Both the relationships of Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Hanna and Michael in the Reader are strongly destructive and dependent, and there is inequality present in both novels. Love is shown as a force that crosses the boundaries of social class and status, yet there are fundamental differences in their relationships. In the first part in Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood, a tenant in Heathcliff’s property asks Nelly the housekeeper about Heathcliff. Heathcliff is introduced as an orphan Mr. Earnshaw adopted, whom Catherine loves and her brother Hindley is jealous of. After Mr. Earnshaw’s death, Hindley abases and abuses him.
Through the dysfunctional relationships in this play, Shakespeare describes how a family can be damaged by favoritism. Meanwhile, “The Glass Menagerie”, written by Tennessee Williams demonstrates the devastation to a family that results from life’s pressures and their own fears after being deserted by their husband and father. King Lear, a single father raising three daughters, and Gloucester, a single father with two sons, together with Amanda, who is also a single mother with a daughter and a son, suffers all the trials and tribulations of parent-child relationships. They are in the same situation yet so different in many ways. In both Wingfield and Lear families, there was a lack of respect from children to parent.
Chillingworth, after slowly discovering that Dimmesdale was the one who committed adultery with Hester, had started an ever growing desire to have revenge on Dimmesdale. This corrupted him and turned him into a hideous person who's only purpose in life was to bring down Dimmsdale. Once Dimmesdale passed away, Chillingworth died shortly there after since he had no purpose for his life anymore. Dimmesdale, having had sinned with Hester, had condemned Hester with the Scarlet Letter which erupted tremendous guilt within his mind. This guilt weakened Dimmesdale and eventually lead to his death.
To begin with, Dickens develops this theme through Therese Defarge’s dialogue. This is evident when Defarge responds to Lucie Manette’s pleas: “All our lives, we have seen our sister-women suffer in themselves and in their children, poverty, nakedness, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery, oppression and neglect of all kinds... Is it likely that the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now?” (Dickens 250). This shows that Madame Defarge lacks sympathy for Darnay Evrémonde and his family because she has already seen so many families suffer under the aristocracy. Considering Defarge’s very own family was destroyed by the Evrémondes, Lucie’s pleas mean nothing to her because having Darnay executed will help her avenge her dead relatives. In this way Dickens shows how painful memories can arouse hatred in a person.
Knowledge is therefore caricatured by the act of belief in the dialogue between the characters in this play. The audience is the judge and jury; Shakespeare is the arbiter who mediates between the audience and the characters. The mediation takes the form of dramatic irony and proleptic irony. These theatrical and literary devices are used to expose the pervasive display of fallacy itself, which becomes a central motif. Shakespeare’s act of deploying fallacy takes the form of two things.