This is demonstrated by her oxymoronic language “Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, / Dove-feathered raven” and “damned saint, an honourable villain". All these words contradict each other, just as how her love for both Romeo and Tybalt contradict each other. Her speech here clearly shows her state of mind, which is evidently so confused such that she is incoherent. This is probably because she is torn between her love for Romeo and her love and sense of duty to Tybalt. She is in a stage of shock and disbelief that Romeo killed Tybalt and is absolutely contradicted, having no inkling of how she should be feeling towards Tybalt’s death by
As a wealthy young man, he looked on women merely as the instruments of his sensual gratification. Pozdznischeff complains that some music is powerful enough to change one's internal state to a foreign one. He hides his raging jealousy and goes on a trip, returns early, finds the two together and kills his wife with a dagger. The violinist escapes: "I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible"(138). This passage clearly shows he lacks remorse of killing his wife, and then later on it appears as though he feels sorry for killing her.
Characterisation is extremely similar in the play and film. In each text, Macbeth has an extensive moment of doubt before murdering Duncan, and again, when the feat is completed, both feel dreadfully guilty. After killing Duncan they both know that they have done the wrong thing and were pressured into doing so by their wife. Instead of using a soliloquy, Brozel uses a slow dolly in onto Joe to underline the thoughts, emotions, and most of all regret that is running through his mind not unfrequently. This new uncertain and anxious Macbeth is just like that of Shakespeare's.
Why does Ophelia go mad? Does Hamlet have any responsibility for this madness and her death? The following passages from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, explain why Ophelia has gone mad. According to Laertes, "There's nothing more than matter," therefore he believes that even though his sister was mad, she was saying more than just blurting out random thoughts. Intermingled within her thoughts that seem to mean nothing, she expresses her grief as well as dropping subtle hints that Hamlet is the reason why she has gone insane.
Both of these texts offer varying conflicting perspectives, which ultimately shape the audiences view of the situation, events and people involved. Conflicting perspectives often arise from bias in the author of a text. This is the case in all of Hughes’s Birthday Letters poems, including The Minotaur. After his wife’s suicide, society blamed Hughes and his unfaithfulness, for the unfortunate death. Hughes uses his poem, The Minotaur, to try to manipulate the audience to see a different view of their marriage, and to make people feel sympathetic towards him.
True masculinity is a conceptual fallacy. Macbeth’s hamartia is his indulgence in the concept of masculinity. Lady Macbeth, the main female protagonist demasculinizes Macbeth throughout the play for his lack of assertiveness. Manipulatively, she states to Macbeth, “What beast was’t then, /That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.47-49).. She defines manhood as stark aggression to achieve power in any means necessary such as killing Duncan.
Before Dimmesdale kills himself, he admits his sin to the whole town. Also, Dimmesdale receives treatment from Hester’s husband, Chillingworth, who knows their secret, and is trying to get revenge on them both. Chillingworth ends up realizing that he is going insane with trying to get revenge and believes that he has sinned more than both of them. The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses satire to poke fun of the Puritan attitude toward sinning and the punishments of sinning. The reader learns from the text that the Puritan religion looked down on the idea of sin and punishes sinners harshly.
The plot of A West Side Story follows along the same basic plot of Romeo and Juliet, but many scenes are omitted or altered but there are a few that are clearly much more important than others. Maria and Tony are never truly married, but they do feel that they are in love with each other. When Maria first hears that Tony killed Bernardo, she is angered at him when he shows up at her window, as opposed to her immediately feeling more upset that Tony will be banished. Chino, who is the closest parallel to Paris, seeks out to kill Romeo because he hears of their love for each other, whereas in Romeo and Juliet, Paris does not even know of the love between the two main characters. This leads to a few other glaring differences in the final scenes.
It becomes clear that Hamlet did truly love Ophelia, yet hid it because he was a coward. The “ White Lie” is not only depicted through Hamlet denying his love but also putting a front up for the selfish betterment of his life style. After his outrageous lecture on self worth that Hamlet gives Ophelia, she grows incredibly mad, which ultimately leads to her death. Although the intentions of his lecture were clearly to hurt Ophelia and gain power over her, once he realizes she is dead he feels the need to express his actual love for her. His change of attitude grows confusing as he professes his dear love after her awful death, “ I loved Ophelia.
Loneliness puts The Monster in a mentally unstable position. He believes that he is a monster for the reason being he was created by one. In comparison, Othello’s betrayal is demonstrated throughout the play, but especially through Iago when he confesses to the audience his plan to manipulate and destroy Othello’s love life with Desdemona. Although Othello trusts Iago with anything, Iago hates the “Moor” and is willing to do anything to destroy him. Iago feels that the best way to do so is by manipulating Othello telling him that his wife is cheating on him with Cassio, who Iago coincidently hates as well.