Prospero using a tempest to shipwreck is previous offenders and plotting to sabotage them, and Medea plotting to kill Jason’s new female interest and her kids to avenge her husband’s mistreatment, are both using unjust acts to retaliate their offenders. Their actions, though enacted through anger, are a clear violation of basic moral reasoning, and are a driving theme between both works. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Euripides’ Medea the dearth of morality manifested in both main characters, is a prevalent theme similarly expressed through the author’s use of a sympathetic figure and the characters illusion of justice they strive for, yet is differentiated greatly by Medea and Prospero’s concluding acts upon their schemes for vengeance. Medea’s foremost introduction is the details of her husband, Jason’s, betrayal, “but now their love is all turned to hate …For Jason hath betrayed his own children and my mistress dear for the love of a royal bride” (17). A moral breach in marriage is the perfect beginning to a sympathetic figure, as Medea, “lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting away in tears” (17), Euripides keenly draws upon her devastation and grief towards
Eddie breaks this Code of Honour and his own loyalty in his nature when his wife's cousins come over from Italy to live with Eddie and his family. When one of the cousins, Rodolpho, falls in love with Eddie's niece Catherine, Eddie is furious. He does not approve of this at all, and decides to take drastic action by reporting the cousins to the immigration officers all just to keep Catherine to himself, and this is how he breaks the Code. From the very beginning of the play it is clear that Eddie loves Catherine but it is also slightly hinted that he has more feelings towards Catherine which he shouldn't have so it is obvious from the start that there will be disaster in the play as soon as anything comes between Eddie and Catherine. At the start of the play Eddie is talking to Catherine and it is clear to see how much that Eddie loves Catherine, though we are not aware of the extent of his emotions towards her and we also do not see their tragic potential.
5. Iago and Roderigo awaken Brabantio, a Venetian senator, to tell him of his young daughter’s secret and controversial marriage to Othello, a black, middle-aged general in the Venetian army. 6. Brabantio is initially displeased and suspicious of this information – partly as Roderigo has recently been rejected as a suitor for Desdemona. 7.
She will be the man here” (519). This quote explains Kreon’s irritation on Antigone. The very moment Antigone buries her be loving brother’s body Kreon wants to take action with killing her because she disobeyed his law also Antigone’s sister, Ismene, because Kreon believes she was part of it too. Kreon believes if he does not kill Antigone he will no longer be one of the best rulers that people will look up too. This quote is important because it explains how Kreon begins to commit hubris.
He was thrown of the title by his very own brother, Antonio. Prospero was then exiled to an island, with his daughter Miranda. He was very close to Miranda and loved her very much. This is shown when Prospero tests Ferdinand to see if he really loves Miranda as he doesn’t want her to be broken hearted. The following quotation proves my point, “I have nothing but in care of thee”, this is said when to Miranda when she is getting upset over the shipwreck.
PROSPERO: ENLIGHTENED AND BENIGN MAGICIAN OR TYRRANICAL AND CRUEL SORCEROR. Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, who with his young daughter, Miranda, was put to sea on "a rotten carcass of a butt" to die by his usurping brother, Antonio. He is the protagonist and key figure in the play. It is due to Prospero's role as a key figure in the play that has put him under so much scrutiny. Many different Shakespearean critics have their own view of Prospero and those that read or see the play also have their own opinion of the way in which Prospero may be seen.
She was able to prove to the judge her case, but mainly happy because she still wants to hurt her husband. Regardless of the fact that he put himself in this situation, T. Smith can not help but to flaunt her fiancée, feed into the fact that her ex husband still wants her, but can’t have her. She describes him in such derogatory terms, that it makes me feel that in order to have so much hate and hurt, there must still be love and regret. I believe that she still wishes that if her ex husband would have just been good to her, she would still be with him. I believe that she does feel bad that her children, who once really loved their father, have become bitter towards him now.
English Passage Analysis. The play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare is set in Messina, Italy, during the Elizabethan Era in a patriarchal society. The main themes of this play are focused around honour; loyalty; jealousy; revenge; status; deception – malicious or with good intent; love in different forms – parental, young love, patriotic, true love, comradeship, friendship, lust; gender roles; social pressure; imposition. This passage it set outside Leonato’s house. Leonato is the governor of Messina, the protagonist of this passage, and his purpose in this scene is to portray parental love for his only child, young Hero, who is another innocent victim of Don John’s malicious scheme and has been falsely accused of sleeping with another man a day before her wedding.
Having realized the loss of his Queen, Macbeth fantasizes his own demise; his conscience wants justice for the sins he has committed, showing his guilt and remorse for what he’s done. Macbeth finally begins to understand the moral rights and wrongs in his
Beginning with Bassianus, the audience witnesses his decline as the throne is taken from him and given to his brother Saturninus due to primogeniture. In many ways the play is (although not solely), a plea for elective rather than aristocratic succession in Government. Bassianus’ failure to ascend the throne is the first act depicting the decline of Rome (as he is better suited to rule than Saturninus in every way but through heritage), also set in motion the beginning of the implosion of the Andronici. The action taken by Titus cost Bassianus his future wife, Lavinia, as the new Emperor vows to take her as his wife. Martius argues: “Thou art a Roman be not barbarous,” In protest at Saturninus’ decision to make Lavinia his wife and also of Titus’ murder of his own son, Mutius, for