Each role adds a different element and is essential to the telling of the story. Mothers portrayed in this poem are seen as givers of “pity and sorrow” rather than true supporters of their sons and husbands when in war. “She is too wise, /too clear-eyed, sees alternatives too well, /Penelope, Ikarious daughter--/that young bride whom we left behind” (Homer 199 519-22). In this scene Odysseus sees the soul of Agamemnon in Hedes the underworld; Agamemnon was murdered by his own wife Clytemnestra. He tries to warn Odysseus, he says women are no longer faithful.
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Fearing that Medea will do ‘some irreparable harm to (his) daughter’, Creon banishes her from his land, setting in motion a chain of events that lead to the final tragedy of the play. If Medea had reigned in her emotions when she first heard the news of how she’d been betrayed, she would never have been exiled or prompted to take sword to her children. Medea’s emotions can be found at the root of the troubles in the drama. However, there are situations where Medea is able to exercise control over her volatile feelings with relative ease. This is made evident in the first act, when she ‘walks out (of the house)’ after her lamentations ‘and
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.
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, chooses to unlawfully bury her brother, Polyneices, even though it may pose a risk to her own life, thus exemplifying true loyalty. Sophocles allows the reader to understand that when prioritizing one’s actions and ideas, loyalty to family should always come before civil obedience. Loyalty to family is an on-going essential component in mankind’s value system. While Antigone is attempting to persuade Ismene to assist her in unlawfully burying Polyneices’ body, she confronts Ismene, “And now you can prove what you are: A true sister, or a traitor to your family” (Prologue. l. 26-27).
He simply hears Romeo’s voice and wants to kill Romeo, even though Romeo has done nothing to Tybalt. Act 1, Scene 5, lines 52-57 state, “This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave Come hither, covered with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.” (Allen et al.
When she confronted her sister, Ismene, to ask for her help in burying Polyneices, Ismene's fear was clear. Ismene would not go against the King of Thebes' laws even for her own blood, she tells Antigone that she is killing herself by even having such a thought, "Our own death
Antigone , a true and more convincing heroine , is able to die proud of her actions while Othello can take only horrific regret to his grave Antigone 's tragic life has been predestined by her parentage she asks her sister Ismene .can you think of any of all the evils that stem from Oedipus that Zeus does not bring to pass for us , while we yet live (Sophocles 181 . She is the progeny of a noble house ruined by sins she had no part in her nobility will not allow her to leave her brother unburied . Asking Ismene for assistance , she tries to raise the point . There you have it , she proclaims , soon you will show yourself as noble both in your nature and your birth , or yourself as base , although of noble parents (182 By contrast , Othello , the Moor ' thus a valued , but outside commander considers his nobility to be of his own design : I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege and my demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reached (Shakespeare 11 . However , early on his arrogance seems to intrude on his
Instead of acting in a mature manner like an adult, she becomes hysterical and exaggerates, “...now here’s Mr. Bennet gone away, and I know he will fight Wickham, wherever he meets him, and then he will be killed, and what is to become of us all?” (192). The fact that she questions the fate of her family if anything should happen to her husband implies that even she is aware of her insufficient mothering. Additionally, her ability to ignore the real issues and magnify the trivial ones, as aforementioned, further glorifies her foolish character and ability to make