The play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead takes a different angle than seeking certainty in one’s actions, instead trying to understand others certainty without justification. Both characters spend the entirety of the play in utter confusion to the world around them as they are unable to make significant choices in their lives. Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead both have a centralized theme of the impossibility of certainty explored in two different theatrical angles. The incomprehensibility of the world around the characters in Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead allows them to directly question the certainty of their actions. Hamlet cannot understand the actions of the characters around him as he is the only character in need of certainty to allow him to act.
Shakespeare’s Othello presents us with a tragedy that highlights the concept of not belonging and being an outsider. Individuals within the text hold certain attributes and behaviours which isolate them from society. Iago is an example of an individual that does not want and does not intend on belonging with the Society. The fact that Iago never becomes close to the other characters and instead uses them to assist his plan in destroying Othello, shows his lack of involvement and elevated sense of superiority. Iago’s separation from Society allows him to manipulate and deceive
Source 2 also suggest that Charles ‘proceeded even when a policy was arousing great opposition’ which also agrees with Source 1 that suggests that Charles ‘saw no need to explain his action’ therefore suggesting that Chares lacked political judgement as he was very inflexible which many people around him found difficult to work with, ‘unworkable’ which led to a problem. Source 1 strongly emphasises that Charles’ elder brother James was ‘accomplished’ whereas Charles was ‘weak’; alternatively source 2 does not mention anything about James. Source 1 suggests that the reason for Charles’ poor communication skills may have been due to the fact that Charles was not brought up to be a ruler, James was. This therefore suggests that the reason Charles ‘failed to understand viewpoints’ may have been due to this fact which again proved to be a major problem in Charles’ personality. Source 1 also strongly emphasises the fact that Charles was ‘short’ and had a ‘stammer’ whereas Source 2 shows no knowledge of this.
Values of Companionship Imagine a life with no one to talk to, being ignored, and being treated unfairly. This is how Crooks lived like in John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. Crooks didn’t have any companions so he acted differently than the characters with companions do in the book. While Crooks was more independent, George and Lennie relied on each other. The importance of companionship is shown by the characters with companions having different personalities than those without.
The film Barton Fink is about the pretentious and secluded world in which the artist lives. All the things involving Barton’s concerns are very small, compared to the problems of real life. Barton in the movie has not thought of reality or of real people. Barton might know the big names in literature but he might not know the small facts about life. He doesn’t even feel like learning it.
This denial leads to his rage, when he perceives that Regan and Cornwall are being thoughtless of his authority. Lear then descends into isolation, in hopes of redefining who he is. Lear moves through stages in his life before any wisdom can be gained, resulting in his becoming a victim to his own poor choices. It is said denial is "an unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable (dictionary.com)." King Lear's denial derives from his blindness towards Regan and Cornwall's deceitful actions.
Within the novel, Lennie shows no significant changes, development, or growth. Sympathy is created for Lennie because his enthusiasm for the dream of their future farm proves contagious as he convinces George, Candy, Crooks, and the reader that such a paradise might be possible. But he is a character whom Steinbeck sets up for disaster, a character whose innocence only seems to ensure his inevitable destruction. The farm is a place where Lennie and George can live together, have animals, grow their own crops and, in general, feel safe. Lennie has little memory, but the story of their dream is one he knows by heart.
He sparsely uses punctuation, which creates the illusion that the rules and conventions of writing do not matter in this post-apocalyptic world; it creates a sense of disorder as the importance of the ‘normal’ means nothing anymore. McCarthy doesn’t use apostrophes in his writing; ‘dont’ is the word he uses in place of ‘don’t.’ This relates to the theme of disorder as McCarthy is revealing to the reader that it is such a ‘barren, silent, godless’ world there is no hope for the previous code returning anytime soon. McCarthy’s lack of punctuation, including commas, gives his sentences a running feel: ‘He dreamt of walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them he and the child and the sky was aching blue but he was learning how to wake himself from just such siren worlds.’ The lack of commas reflects the ‘barren’ land as there is a desolate mood to the sentences. This also reveals that McCarthy wants the character of the man to be seen as a man who is solely focused on looking after and caring for his son and information he would previously have had a care for are not important anymore. The opening of The Road quickly
He is a genuine character, honest and projecting his true personality. Not being able to live life with joy or pleasure, refusing to drink at all, criticising or judging, having new experiences despite the outcome are all examples of a constrained man. An interesting point is that you are not necessarily born being this kind of person. There is always room for change and it will never be too late to accept that change. However, it cannot come to a character as an epiphany.
It is also made clear to the reader why Grendel has no social life due to the fact that he simply wants nothing to do with those around him; however there is only one point of view throughout the poem which makes the reader wonder if there is more to Grendel than a beast. We know nothing of his background of why he acts the way he does, we have no clue as to how others have acted toward him in the past, and for how long these situations lasted. Grendel is just a misunderstood character. Throughout the poem there is valid reason as to why someone would be able to empathize toward Grendel. Turner 3 Works Cited Page Anderson, Sarah, Alan Sullivan, and Timothy Murphy.