Goneril and Regan pledge their love for their father, while Cordelia refuses to speak and when probed finally states that she cannot “heave her heart into her mouth,” (Act I p.7 96-97) that she loves him exactly as much as a daughter should love her father, and that her sisters wouldn’t have husbands if they loved their father as much as they claim. An enraged Lear disowns Cordelia and splits her share of the kingdom between the remaining two sisters. This is a prime example of the beginning of destruction across familial, personal and social aspects. Lear pits his daughters against one another in a selfish endeavour to boost his own pride, but in doing this he also destroys a very crucial aspect within the monarchy by removing the one daughter who has not saught out to destroy him and the foundation he had built for his kingdom. In disowning Cordelia this breaks the natural order of things because in doing so he has severed the natural bond that a father and daughter share, as well he has personally destructed himself with this decision because he has given up on his favoured daughter.
Turtle has a trial about it and she finds out that Sam Westing was Sandy all the time. Turtle found that out by putting all the clues together and reading the rest of the will that was not found out until the end. In the end Turtle finds out that Sam Westing was murdered by himself. He could of went and got his medicine but he decided he wanted to die this way. Turtle friend sandy dies, which was actually Mr. Westing.
In the play, Euripides has described Medea as a woman who “wild with love”. Everyone can see easily that with Medea, the love with Jason is the most important to her as she could kill her own brother, betrayed her father and her country to help Jason get the Golden Fleece. “I willingly deceived my father; left my home; …” “You had already murdered your brother at his own hearth…” Because of Jason, Medea - from a princess – had to drift to another place which is not belonging to her. Her family, her friends will never forgive for that, Medea doesn’t even have the way to turn back to her home anymore. “My friends at home now hate me…” Medea even earned more enemies when helping Jason.
She married Roger out of social and economic necessity. When she commits adultrey, she conceals his identity from Dimmesdale. Roger chillingworth visits hester while she is in prison and they both discuss to eachother that their marriage never worked out. Hester says, " I have greatly wronged thee!",(72). Hester is the least sinful because she only committed adultrey and that she never told Arthur chillingworth was her husband.
The first ruler that Herodotus talks about is Candaules. Candaules thought that his wife was the most beautiful woman in all of his land, though he had no way to prove it he greatly wanted to. He told one of his servants Gyges to hide behind a door and wait for her to take her clothes off. (34) Candaules and Gyges thought that they could easily get away with it, but what they did not know was that Herodotus’s wife was aware that he was there the whole time. So later when she informed Gyges that she had known all along and that she wanted some sort of redemption for what they had done.
Anyone who buried Polynices would be punished by death. Creon does this to demonstrate to his people that anyone who tries to overthrow the king, as Polynices did, will be punished. He does this to protect his position as king, and the position of Thebes’ future rulers. Antigone decided to go against her uncle’s rule and bury Polynices. One might argue that Antigone acted not to disobey her uncle, but because she cared for her brother.
Aylmer shows his weakness when he sacrifices the closest thing to perfect in his world, his wife, to his work and obsession for control over her. Georgiana, likewise, shows weakness when she chooses death to make her husband happy as opposed to finding anyone else that would have done everything in there power to love and respect her even with the birthmark. Aminadab, who is not, mentioned much throughout this story but, he is just as important as Aylmer and Georgiana. He tells Aylmer, “If she were my wife, I’d never part with that birthmark.” This depicts the characteristic of Aminadab, a man of nature rather than a man of science. Therefore, his main flaw; he should have not departed from nature to work with a man of
Medea is hurting other people by trying to get revenge on Jason. I believe Medea causes more damage to other characters then Jason. Medea is the antagonist because she betrays her family to go live with Jason. Medea’s nurse wishes she never met Jason because she would have never betrayed her family or left anyone behind “She would never have seen Jason nor loved and saves him, nor cut herself off from home to come with him.”(Euripides 85) If Medea didn’t meet Jason she would not have fell in love with him, left her family behind, and caused damage to the people Jason loved. Medea wouldn’t cause damage to others if she had no motivation to.
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.
She does anything in her power such as lying just manipulate to get her way, she purposely says something false to ensure the children will persuade their dad, "’There was a secret panel in this house,’ she said craftily, not telling the truth but wishing that she were, ‘and the story went that all the family silver was hidden in it when Sherman came through but it was never found . . .’" (282). As seen since the beginning of the story, the grandmother tries to use her skill to manipulate The Misfit in sparing her life. "You wouldn't shoot a lady, would you?"