Medea How can you tell whether someone is truly insane or not? In the Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides, barbarian princess Medea marries Lolcus prince Jason. Jason leaves Medea to marry a Rich princess to help support Medea and their two children. Throughout the story Medea tires to get revenge on Jason for leaving her. Medea is hurting other people by trying to get revenge on Jason.
Later in the poem, Hughes accuses his wife of abandoning her family. The repetition of “you” in the lines “unravelled your marriage, left your children echoing like tunnels in labyrinth, left your mother a dead-end” emphasises the immensely accusatory tone of the poem. These accusations in The Minotaur show that Hughes puts all blame for their failed marriage onto his wife, and is not taking any of the responsibility. Hughes’s view of Plath is a conflicting perspective to society’s view of the couple’s relationship. How Hughes portrays his conflicting perspective
To what extent is Desdemona presented as a tragic figure in Act 4 Scene 3 and Act 5 Scene 2? How could an audience react to her death? On the one hand, Desdemona is presented as a strong female character; publically defying her father by marrying Othello, arguing with Iago regarding the role of women and breaking free of the gender expectations of a woman in the 16th century by denying her privileged but sheltered life to marry a black man of her own choosing, a hugely rebellious act at a time when women were seen as lesser and were expected to obey their fathers and then husbands unconditionally. However, on the other hand she is portrayed as naive, and full of doubts and fears. She does not stand up to Othello when it really matters, and accepts her own death far too easily, even to go as far as selecting the bed sheets she is to be murdered on.
Maria Teresa's style of punctuating her diary narrative with exclamations continues throughout this chapter. In Chapter 10, Patria compared Captain Pena to the devil, but now that he has maneuvered things so that Minerva and Maria Teresa could be released from prison, he is compared to God. While Minerva compares Captain Pena to God in that he hands down commandments, she also breaks from the theme of comparing Trujillo to God and instead compares him to the devil. The most turning point is when Dede becomes nervous about all of her sisters traveling together to visit their husbands, and her warnings serve as foreshadowing for their deaths. When they laugh at her warnings and she gets upset, Minerva says, "Come on, Dede.
Both plays show fearless women who intervene with political matters and cause tension within the kingdom. Lady Macbeth questions her husband and pressures him into being more aggressive, while Antigone defies Creon by burying her dead brother, Polynieces. Both Lady Macbeth and Antigone defy the social and political expectations of their society by adopting the expected behaviors of the opposite gender. Lady Macbeth disregards the social and political norms by wanting to become more masculine and aggressive. While she prepares to exterminate the current king, she cries out “Unsex me here,/ and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/ Of direst cruelty.” (Shakespeare.
She tries to be reasonable, saying, "Why, worthy thane, / You do unbend your | |noble strength, to think / So brainsickly of things" (2.2.41-43), but he's paralyzed with horror. Finally, she has to do what he should | |have done. She takes the daggers from him, carries them back to place them with the grooms, and smears the grooms with the King's blood. | |When she returns, Lady Macbeth hears Macbeth talking about his bloody hands, and she comments, "My hands are of your colour; but I shame / | |To wear a heart so white" (2.2.61-62). She means that her hands are red, too (because she has been busy smearing the King's blood on the | |grooms), but that she would be ashamed to have a heart as white as Macbeth's.
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The conflict is later resolved when the town's people figure out that it was Ms.Strangeworth writing those hurtful letters and in return we assume they destroy her most cherish possession- her rose garden. The climax of the story occurred when she had dropped her letter to Don and Linda's boyfriend Dave picks it up. It is at that point the reader wonders if Dave will return the letter to Ms. Strangeworth or will he give the letter to Don telling him that the letter was from Ms. Strangeworth. The reader could also think of this in two different ways; will the letter be returned to Ms. Strangeworth and her rain of terror over the town continue or will It be the end for Ms. Strangeworth and she will finally has to commend for the truly evil things she had
This all changes one day when she is so mesmerized by Lancelot , a local knights, handsomeness and looks at him effectively breaking the curse, she begins a journey down the river unfortunately dying by the time she gets to Camelot and never getting to meet Lancelot. The poem begins with the description of “Long fields of barley and of rye” in the town of Camelot, we then see a contrast when the speaker then a couple of lines after describes the actual town as “many-tower'd Camelot” which gives us the complete opposite idea that the town is somewhat industrial and busy. We are then introduced to the small island of shallot, where there is a lot of beauty illustrated and the description is of that a magical land, yet if we look closer we can see that the reader gets a feel for the separation of the lady of shallot and her threatening destiny in the imagery of the flowers and natural surroundings. This can be seen in the lines of “Willows whiten, aspens whiten and aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver. The fear associated with the words “quiver” and “shiver” suggest they are foreshadowing what danger lies ahead with the lady of shallot.
Euripides questions the Greek ideal woman and her characteristics. Euripides wrote against the norm of Ancient Greek writing when writing this play. The theme of justice verses revenge was very prominent in Medea. Medea goes to great lengths to seek revenge on her ex-husband Jason after he left her and her kids to poverty in a foreign country so that he could then get married to the King’s daughter in Corinth. Not only did Jason do that, but his soon to be father-in-law King Creon demands that Medea and her children leave at once or after she persuades him after a day.