Antigone’s pride came from her respect for her family and honoring the gods and their divine law, while Creon’s pride was an arrogant trait. Tiresias, the blind prophet claims Creon will lose his family for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied. Creon later realizes his mistaken pride. For example, “Fate has brought all of my pride to a thought of dust (Creon, Exodus).” This quote reveals that Tiresias’ prophecy or fate had portrayed Creon’s downfall, yet still filled with pride, refused to admit to his wrong doing. After Creon’s family’s deaths, Creon’s pride crumbles as he realizes he was wrong in his actions.
Morrie always emphasized the value of family and love, while King Lear saw these as trivial pursuits which at best can be used to elevate his ego. Morrie was disappointed by the way things were in his society, while initially King Lear did not care too much for it and accepted it. Morrie viewed death as completely natural and even an ideal way to live, while King Lear still wanted to live the life of a king despite dividing his land between his daughters. Despite being very different in both character and beliefs initially, both King Lear and Morrie came to acquire true wisdom by experiencing a fact of life which we regard as a phenomena; death. Both these wise men once differed in values when it came to life.
Hamlet is not crazy because his actions, his intelligence, and his words ultimately prove his sanity. In order to prove by actions that Hamlet is sane, one must look at his mannerisms, his overall state of mind, and his body language. Throughout Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, there are numerous examples of where Hamlet’s mannerisms, although seemingly insane, actually prove his sanity. An example is when in act one scene two, Hamlet is genuinely forlorn and in grief over his father’s death (I.ii.79-89). This shows that Hamlet is truly in sorrow the whole endurance of the play.
In Julius Caesar Brutus starts out as Caesar’s good friend. In the beginning of the play, Cassius asks Brutus if he wants Caesar to be king and he replies, “I would not, Cassius. Yet I love him well” (Act 1, Scene 2).This shows that he did care for Caesar and he respected him. However when he helped kill Caesar he lost Rome’s respect even though it was for the “good of the country”. This eventually leads to Brutus’ fearful death, his
From Ophelia’s first scene its clear there is a level of affection and connection between the two protagonists. While his father was alive, Hamlet ‘hath of late made many tenders of his affection’ towards Ophelia in the form of love letters and gifts. Despite Ophelia never really being able to reveal her true feelings due to the high level of male control that dictates her every move, it’s obvious that she is deeply in love with Hamlet, shown in her heartbreak and despair after Hamlet’s treatment of her in Act 3, Scene 1. Their relationship seems onset to become a royal wedding until the Ghost. The Ghost of Hamlet’s father sets the revenge plot into motion, pushing the blooming romance aside to a subplot.
He continues, “it us befitted/To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom/To be contracted in one brow of woe” (I.2.2-4), which prompts the city to grieve for the late king. Claudius never mentions his own feelings about the king’s death, but expects everyone else to mourn. He then goes on to talk about his marriage to Gertrude, as if his self-interested act of taking the dead king’s wife for his queen somehow compensates for his death. Claudius’ strange behavior is a hint that something is not the way it appears. It suggests that he is putting on a disguise, which is later confirmed when it is revealed that he is the one who murdered the king.
He lived in a palace, and he was a great general, but most importantly he was liked by the people. “But, indeed, sir, we make holiday, to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.” Third, Julius is probably the noblest character in the play. When Julius was offered the crown, he turned it down, and did so two more times when he was offered it again. When his wife tried to convince him to stay home, Julius said “Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once… seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come” which meant that Rome was more important to him than his own life. Julius Caesar also is a tragic hero for making his fatal mistake of being oblivious to all warning signs.
Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet", both contain the basic elements of tragedy, although the Shakespearean tragedy expanded its setting far beyond that of the ancient Greek tragedy. The tragic hero of Hamlet finds himself burdened with the task of avenging his father's death from the start of the play, and is not himself the source of the pollution of regicide, while Oedipus is of course the unwitting creating of his own doom, which is unveiled to him through recognition and repentance. Sophocles has Oedipus tells his own tragedy when speaking to the people of Thebes. The city suffers because of the pollution of Oedipus, and irony is shown when Oedipus suggest that by avenging Laius he will protect himself, or that by getting children upon Jocasta, the dead king's wife, he will be taking the place of the son of Laius, which, unknowingly, is himself. The irony reaches its peak when Oedipus calls on the prophet Tiresias to help uncover the murder of Laius and seek an cure to the plague; the metaphor of vision is ironic in that the blind Tiresias can see what the seemingly brilliant Oedipus has overlooked, namely the king's crimes of incest and murder.
When he states: 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father. … To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief” (1.2.87-94) King Claudius suggests that Hamlet is letting his excessive grief rule his life. Hamlet is not entirely aware of his surroundings as he does not try to seek out his throne from Claudius which he is in control of
The overall summary of Hamlet is that there is an easy and unbalanced political unrest after the demise of Old Hamlet. The reason for this quiet chaos was based solely on the relationship Old Hamlet had with his people as king, he was loved by everyone. In Act I, Scene II the now-King Claudius is speaking highly of his deceased brother and portrays the late king as a great man whom would be missed. “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death, the memory be green, and that it us befitted…” How Claudius broke the news to the people of Denmark was similar to The Lion King as well in a “bad-news, good news” sort of way. With the limited words he spoke about his brother’s death, he uplifted the moral of the gathering with the announcement that he would take Gertrude as his wife now that he was king.