Jason accuses Medea of overreacting. He claims that his decision to remarry was in everyone's best interest. Medea finds him spineless, and she refuses to accept his token offers of help. While visiting Corinth, Aegeus, King of Athens, offers Medea to come live in his home city in exchange for her knowledge of certain drugs that can cure his sterility. Now guaranteed a home in Athens, Medea has cleared all obstacles to completing her revenge, a plan which grows to include the murder of her own children; the pain their loss will cause her does not outweigh the satisfaction she will feel in making Jason suffer.
Seeking for Revenge in Titus Andronicus. The play, Titus Andronicus is categorized as a first tragedy written by William Shakespeare between 1588 and 1593. The play was popular in its time but it was later less appreciated by people. The play disregarded kindness and forgiveness and had more violent and blood-soaked acts. In this play, the Queen of the Goths, Tamora seeks revenge against Andronicus family when they show no mercy and murder her sons.
She is cast into exile while her sisters are appointed power over the land and they begin to rule. One of the critical betrayals within this play is the betrayal of King Lear’s daughters towards him. After obtaining their father’s kingdom, both Goneril and Regan quickly reveal themselves as unloving and uncaring as they deprive the retired king of his privileges. Due to the King’s unjust decision, he winds up not only destroying and diminishing his own authority but also, all authority in Britain.
This conflict within Hamlet is further expounded by the possibility that his father was murdered by his uncle, King Cladius. In an attempt to cope with the moral weakness of his mother, Prince Hamlet dispels any sympathetic feelings toward women causing him to ruin his relationship with Ophelia and leaving him lonely. In order to accurately interpret Shakespeare’s usage of a female’s role throughout his play it is imperative to consider the greater source of his ideas-his historical background. The historical period of the Elizabethan era influenced Shakespeare’s negative portrayal of women and thus, he uses the women in his play as tools in unraveling Prince Hamlet. In Hamlet, it can be noted that the patriarchal setup of society mirrors that of England during the Elizabethan era.
He sins against his whole family and by thinking that love can be quantified. And as it turns out, Lear isn’t only separating his family but power and responsibility as well. His very unpredictable, easily aggravated temper causes him to act wrongly and irrationally towards Cordelia, his favorite daughter who, he believes has betrayed her. Lear cannot understand that anyone’s, let alone his daughter’s, love for him could be ‘nothing’. I think pride, anger and greed for power prompted Lear to make the decision of giving up the kingdom to his malicious, hateful and ungrateful daughters, Regan and Cordelia.
“Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him?” (pg. 154, Cooney) this quote shows the queen confessing about her killing Duncan because she was greedy and wanted the kingdom to be hers. She ended up dying later in the book because of the consequences for killing people in order to gain power. 3. Rhetoric: Pathos- “The sobbing of his little girl would only prove how ccompletely he had failed.” (pg 46, Cooney) is pathos becauses it showing how Mary’s father wouldn’t die while seeing his daughter crying.
Second, her father's interference, and loneliness. Third, being bankrupt, being rejected by the people in the town, and being desolate. What I can also be taken into consideration is that Emily had an image and the Grierson family name to uphold; they wanted to pretend to be the perfect family; to keep the prestige. I think what motivates Emily Grierson’s to kill Homer Barron is because she is going through a rough life, and she prefers to be with a dead man, rather than being by herself. First; Homer was going to deceive Emily, by marrying her.
Iago did not feel Othello was a righteous general. He believed that Othello chose Cassio because of personal preference not military performance. Therefore, this led Iago to devise a plan of revenge that would soon change the lives of Othello and all those who surrounded him. <br>Iago schemed a way to convince Othello that his wife, Desdemona, was having an affair with Cassio. He entangled Othello in an intricate web of misleading lies making it seem as if Desdemona had given Cassio a handkerchief, which was symbolic of their marriage.
It becomes difficult for a person with respect for others to gain power over someone who does not mind trampling over others to get to the top. These people have the ability to harm someone because their morals do not stop them, whereas one with good morals may become powerless because taking any action would mean that they have defied their morals. The main characters’ father, Sydney, is often known as someone who is abused. Sydney’s friend Connie realizes that it easy for him to blame
This discrimination and non-acceptance by the Greeks towards Medea and the barbarians was also key to the reason why she killed her children and Jason’s new wife. She felt betrayed, but because of how women were supposed to act and because of how barbarians or foreigners were treated, she did not feel like she could achieve justice any other way. Another oral that helped me in my understanding of Medea, was my own. During the research of my oral about the Peloponnesian Wars, I learned a lot, not only about those wars, but also about Euripides and how the wars may have affected the Athenians. The Peloponnesian Wars had an amazingly large effect on Euripides and the rest of the Athenians.