Oedipus acts as the catalyst for the mental, emotional, and physical suffering within Oedipus the King, causing the misery and anguish of other major and minor characters, through past and present actions. Oedipus is directly responsible for the vast torment that many of his subjects endure, along with Jocasta, Creon, and Oedipus himself, due to the antecedent blunders that he made in unknowingly murdering his father, marrying his mother, and producing monstrous offspring. He perpetuates his errors by seeking Laius’s murderer in response to the Delphi priestess’ prophecy which identifies Laius’s murderer as the reason for the city’s suffering. Sophocles represents this calamitous cycle through tragic and volatile scenes between Oedipus and other characters, such as Tiresius, Jocasta, and Creon. The heinous acts Oedipus committed are a consequence of a punishment by the Greek gods that brings devastating injury to those close to him and to the entire city of Thebes, along with the suffering he inflicts as a result of his futile quest for the murderer of Laius.
In this particular scene, Macbeth attempts to persuade the two murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance. He goes into lengthy speech of condemning Banquo and using effective tactics of persuasion to convince the murderers. At first, Macbeth uses logical appeal to sway the murderers into wanting revenge on Banquo for making their lives a living hell. Macbeth exclaims, “That it was he, in the times past, which held you so under fortunes…” (3.1.84-85). He also tells the murderers that Banquo is blameworthy for their tragic, unhappy lives.
The whole kingdom is stricken with disease and hardships. People are starving, dying, and pleading to the gods to take away their sorrows. “ And now, Oedipus, power to whom all men turn, we beg you, all of us here, in supplication - find some relief for us!” (Page 7) Dramatic Irony: Find two examples
Father, Gods and Goddesses. If you hear me, listen to my words, especially you father. My hands have just been soiled by murder. Murder done by wrath and love. Wrath and anger for the murder this girl has committed.
There is none but he whose being I do fear. From this soliloquy, it’s obvious that Macbeth is once again encompassed by the extreme terror that Banquo, his best friend may know about the truth of the deed. The fear of unsecured throne terrifies Macbeth and causes him to send murderers to perform the assassination of Banquo. Later on, the unexpected escape of Fleance triggers the ideas of visiting witches once more to seek his fate. After Macbeth knows the fact that he should be aware of Mcduff, he sends orders immediately to commence a full murder of Mcduff’s family.
Antony’s Prophecy on the Fate of Rome Antony’s frustration towards Caesar’s death is clear and evident; consequently, he vows to avenge his loyal friend’s brutal murder. Through the effective use of concrete, vivid, visual imagery, apostrophe, and foreshadowing in the form a prophecy, Antony predicts that the conspirators’ murder of Caesar will cause chaos amongst Roman citizens and result in an upcoming civil war that is destructive in nature. Antony establishes concrete, vivid and visual imagery in his soliloquy. Evidence of blood imagery occurs when Antony becomes furious over the sight of Caesar’s blood, as he says: “Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!” (258). This line reveals Antony’s hatred towards blood, especially since it is Caesar’s.
This creates conflict between the monster and Victor as the monster soon begins to hate him for abandoning him. Furthermore, in chapter 16 we see conflict between the creator and the created again: “you belong to my enemy—to him I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim”. The monster’s anger towards his creator is channelled into revenge as he kills his brother. Shelley uses the language device direct address to depict this. The pronoun “you” is repeated, this makes the reader
The prince, upon learning of Claudius’s sinful corruption, swore to avenge his father’s betrayal. However, Claudius was not only responsible for taking away his brother’s life, but also for the deaths of Hamlet’s mother, Ophelia, Polonius and Laertes. When Hamlet finally got to Claudius, he made sure the latter died suffering. Claudius’s heart was torn to pieces as he watched his loved ones die around him. The wicked crimes he was responsible for ensured his life would be miserable and tragic.
It is a depiction of a noble, along with his wife, who brutally slaughters a King and his kinsman so that he may be the King (Shakespeare xiii). Even after killing the king though, Macbeth realizes that his dynasty will be short. So he tells people to murder his successors. My belief that Macbeth is an example of self-fulfilling prophecy stems from the early foreshadowing in the play. “By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis./ But how of Cawdor?
In Agamemnon, Aeschylus uses his characters to express his political opinion on war. In lines 49-54 Agamemnon and Menelaus’s war cry, at the outset of the Trojan War, is compared to that of eagles stricken with agony after they lose their young and their homes. Aeschylus’s statement is one of doom and destruction on many levels. Troy is destroyed, many Greeks die, and the House of Atreus is destroyed. On line 437, the chorus is speaking and they say that the god of war was the “money changer” of dead bodies.