He states, “For whom I should be hanged.” This shows that e is unhappy of the truth and how sick it makes him feel. It tells the audience that he doesn’t have much to live for anymore and that he just wants to be gone where his voice can’t be heard. He also states, “My load is mine, don’t fear; no man could bear so much.” In other words, the immediate reaction he gives is that no one can go through the pain and suffering that he had to deal with and how much it can degrade yourself. Oedipus strongest use of rhetoric is symbolism that is to have significant meaning. He states.
In the soliloquy, Hamlet is at first upset with himself about finding ways to avoid avenging his Father’s murder, like his spirit in ghost form told him to. This complaining turns into self hatred and then Hamlet is insulting himself outright. The main reason for this is he has agreed to get revenge on Claudius so his father’s spirit can be at peace, but he hasn’t done it yet. The fact that the Player seems to be more able to get into the mindset of revenge than he can further discourages him. This on top of the fact that Hamlet’s dad is dead and his mother married that man he hates most in the world makes for a pretty melancholy fellow.
(29)” In other words, at the first sight of conflict, man will not think twice before attacking if it is to his benefit. As he continues his broad claim, Hobbes suggests that peace can only be achieved along side “fear of death. (32)” Hobbes is describing a nation where the inhabitants fear he who is in charge. Without these fears, Hobbes infers that chaos will break out; this relates to the importance of laws, which will be discussed later. In a similar fashion, Machiavelli suggests the same innate corrupt behavior of man when he advises that a prince should not completely trust those beneath him.
After the audience becomes aware of this, and Edmund’s duplicitous plotting, the audience loses all sympathy for the main antagonist of the subplot in King Lear. The loyal, earnest Edmund presented to Gloucester and Kent in Act 1 Scene 1 is a stark contrast to the scheming, bitter Edmund seen alone for the first time in the beginning of Act 1 Scene 2. His first soliloquy begins with Edmund asking why he should not take it upon himself to better his societal standing. The only things standing in his way are societal conventions and complicated laws. He has faith that, with masterful planning, he can overcome the barriers society has set up for him, and take what he believes to be rightfully his: land, money, and power.
Using Oedipus as an ideal model, Aristotle says that a tragic hero must be an important or influential man who makes an error in judgment, and who must then suffer the consequences of his actions. Those actions are seen when Oedipus forces Teiresias to reveal his destiny and his father's name. When Teiresias tries to warn him by saying I say that you and your most dearly loved are wrapped together in a hideous sin, blind to the horror of it (Sophocles 428). Oedipus still does not care and proceeds with his questioning as if he did not understand what Teiresias was talking about. The tragic hero must learn a lesson from his errors in judgment and become an example to the audience of what happens when great men fall from their social or political positions.
A man who once was all powerful and very stern broke down into a man who became limp and like a ragdoll when his own machine turned against him. The officer wants his body to be inscribed with “Be Just.” A reason could be because he is so disciplinary and he won’t change his morals and rules. Being just means to be fair and according to him being fair is to follow the ultimate code of governance. I think justice has been served to the full extent at the end of the story. The cruel, ruthless machine once constructed by the officer turned against him.
Set, your brother, is an evil man, who hates you and will do you harm (Osiris and Isis, 205)”. This proves that Isis knows Set is an evil man and she convinces Osiris not to go but he did not listen. Secondly, in the myth it states “Osiris, having no guile or bitterness in his own heart, believed others to be as himself, and with the words of confidence and cheer he tried to cast out the fear that troubled his wife; then, putting on his most splendid robes, he went in all trust and friendship to his brother’s banquet (Osiris and Isis, 205)”. This proves that even after Isis warns him about how Set will do him harm, he still goes. He fails to see the real truth about him.
Oh god, the misery, anguish – I, I’m churning with it, going under” (1432 – 1436). He would rather die himself than to feel the loss of his family. However, Creon must suffer his fate. As he mourns the bodies of his wife and son laid out on their piers he said “Whatever I touch goes wrong – once more
One commentary said about “An Ideal Husband” that “when the truth of their large or small sins came to the surface, their careers and reputations were compromised or ruined". Sir Robert’s past actions which made him so powerful catch up with him. This is also applicable to Helmer in “A Doll’s House” who, although he does not obtain the money from Krogstad, he does ignore his wife’s warnings about firing Krogstad. Ironically, both Wilde and Ibsen show that it was both men who caused the letters, and therefore their downfall, to
By rejecting the colonizers’ ideas he exercises his free will and sets himself up for failure. In Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo’s close-minded and power hungry personality leads him to his grave; when he chooses not to change he finds he cannot continue in his society, and thus, brings his death upon himself. This reveals that the choices one makes in the beginning of one’s life create the outcome. Okonkwo is introduced as a narrow-minded person focused on power; as a result he chooses to ignore qualities he needs in his changed society. In the beginning of the story, it is expressed that Okonkwo did not like his father Uknoka because he viewed Uknoka as weak and unsuccessful: “And so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion-to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved”(13).