“Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See what a surge(?) is laid upon your hate That heaven finds means to kills yours joys with love” (V, iii, 291-293) “For there never was a story of more woe, then this of Juliet and her Romeo” (V, iii, 309-310) Tragedy- Reinforced by the death of Mercutio as it is seen by Levin as quite an ironic end, as he has been the satirist- “represents the play moving from Romantic comedy to Romantic tragedy.” Comparing Comedy & Tragedy- Tragedy tends to isolate where comedy bring together, to reveal the uniqueness of individuals rather than what they have in common with others.
His very existence is for the destruction of the truly innocent. In religious terms the devil is the ruler of the underworld and can see into everyone’s thoughts and manipulate them into temptation. A Shakespearean audience would be fully aware of this due to the fact that they were considerably religious during the period the play was written and performed in. We see that Iago has devilish qualities about his character in the way he manipulates other into essentially doing his dirty work for him. The clever technique Shakespeare uses allows al the characters to perceive Iago as ‘honest’ and quite pure and heavenly like.
In the beginning Poe uses “Prince Prospero” as an allusion to The Tempest and the Bible. According to Cheney Prince Prospero becomes an anti-hero, as an image of a man misusing his will as he attempts to shape reality; the “Red Death” becomes an anti-Christ,” and image of the cosmic force conspiring man’s failure. Charmingly Prince Prospero’s masquerade does not intimately unite earth to heaven, but intimately unites earth to “death” (Cheney). In the end the masquerade is not a new Eden, but a “valley of the shadow of death” (Cheney). Poe uses many things to describe symbolism in “The Masque of the Red Death”.
Evil was a potent force which intended to hurt and destroy, against the expectations of society which were usually based on Christian views. On the other hand, to be good was to act in a charitable and caring way for others, displaying the qualities of a faithful Christian. In this way, it could be said that to be 'morally ambiguous' is to merge the two; to integrate good and evil into a personality to such an extent that it is not possible to label such a person as one or the other. There are different types of morality which seem to be contrasted with each other in the novel. Joseph represents one of these: the conventional, institutionalised notion of morality based on religion and the word of the bible.
12. How might the saying "misery loves company" apply to Satan's attitude? (264-270) It applies because Satan want those who is just like him to join
Shakespeare prolongs metaphors in order to emphasise the amoral society of Hamlet’s Denmark. Hamlet enunciates to the audience in his soliloquy his view of the corruption of this society of Denmark: “`tis an unweeded garden” (1.2.135). The ghost uses metaphors to characterise its perspective of Polonius as “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown” (1.5.38). Shakespeare states in hamlet’s soliloquy “o that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew” (1.2.129). In this statement, there is symbolism of flesh ‘melting’ and becoming a ‘dew’, which parallels Hamlet’s desire for a transfigured state of
Also the word ‘fall’ in this case could be here to symbolise sin, how to Angelo if he was to fall it would be like he was sinning. Angelo’s name also derives from the word of Angel, which shows he is saintly as an Angel is seen to be a very holy and good thing. This could link in with how he could be seen as ‘saintly’ as Jesus. Angelo could be shown as Jesus because the Duke is shown to be a ‘God-like’ figure and this is important because the fact that Angelo takes over and comes under a lot of criticism for bringing in the laws, could be compared to how God (Duke) sent Jesus (Angelo) down to earth to teach and implement the Ten commandments and how he came
With heavy satire, dramatic and situational, Lewis shows how the devils views Christian society and how he tries to manipulate Christians into losing their faith through subtle ways. In this satire C.S. Lewis exposes man’s great and tiny faults and how the devil tries to take advantage of each of them to make his walk with God miserable until the Christian falls. The worldview in the Screwtape letters is a Christian worldview. Lewis shows that Christianity is ultimately logical and that one of the main ways the devil tries to attack Christians is to avoid logic.
Character Sketch The Devil and Tom Walker Title The story "The Devil and Tom Walker" written by Washington Irving, published in 1824, consists of a protagonist named Tom Walker. The story dates in the year 1727, taking place in England, thus adding to the literary context to the story quite nicely. The story features a very ill mannered man named Tom Walker, tempted by the one very mythical creature, The Devil. The Devil represents a reflection of a side of Tom; an entity embedded within the simple soul that he is. The Devil also literally represents the gold of Kidd the Pirate.
“Powers & Principalities.” Commonweal (2011): 14-17.Academic Search Premier.Web.21 Mar.2013. The author explores the modern concept of devil. He argues that author C.S Lewis has perpetuated the modern caricature of evil in his novel “The Srewtape Letters” through the real goals was to set evil within the terms of Christian apologetics. He also observes that in several motion pictures, such as “The Devil Wears Proda” evil is personified less as a cosmic power battling God for sovereignty than as a small-time dealer in individual favors as the source of humorous mischief. The Devil is no joke.