However, when it seemed unlikely that Catherine would be able to produce a male heir for Henry, he wanted a divorce. He knew that only the Pope would be able to get him a divorce from Catherine, and, when he sent Thomas Wolsey, his minister, to ask the Pope, the Pope found himself in a tricky position. He did not want to upset Henry but he did not want to anger Catherine’s nephew, Charles V, who was against the divorce. So, he sat back and did nothing. Does Mary I deserve the
A true hero does not take all the pride in a heroic act instead a hero should be humble not cocky. A modern audience would consider him a monster because of all the attention he seeks, but a medieval audience considers this heroic because he puts his own life at risk to save everyone. The responsibility Beowulf had for killing Grendel became pushy and too far and taken in a gruesome way. The battle between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother was even more monstrous than the battle between Beowulf and Grendel. Beowulf took a sword to the water cave where Grendel’s mother lived.
Therefore the source suggests that Henry’s inability to enforce the ‘newly-imposed head tax’ contributed not only to a lack of funds for wars with France, but also his failure to combat the tax boycott ‘gave [James IV] hope of undertaking something’. Source 2 confirms what is being said in source 1 as it demonstrates that the threat was real, accounting how James did actually invade, taking advantage of Henry's absence, which confirms the suspicions of the Privy Council in source 1. Source 1 also implies that Henry may have had to abandon any plans made to invade France due to the possible Scottish invasion, 'against King Henry in his absence'. Yet the situation was double edged sword; if Henry chose to ignore the potential threat of a Scottish invasion and stayed to campaign in France, he risked the former actually coming true. If however, he decided to return to England in order to discourage James IV from attacking, he would lose progress in France.
source 2 is different to sources 1 and 3 as it backs up the idea that Scotland was a threat to henry’s ambitions. it shows that England was able to deal with this threat effectively in source 1 we learn that henry was unable to raise a head tax in the northern counties in 1513, and that he did not deal with the counties to pay as of fear of rebellion. not only would the failure to raise money jeopardise henry’s aims and ambitions in France, his ability to wage war in France was also threatened by the prospect that James VI might take advantage of the rebellion in the north to invade, therefore henry had to “strive” to keep his subjects loyal, “supisious” says Vergil of James’s intentions. Vergil writes about the instability of henry’s rule in the north and the strength of the Scottish
This eventually lost him the support of York, after countless amounts of times that York attempted to prove his loyalty, which played a big part in his downfall because York was a very important noble. It is arguable to say that there wouldn’t have been conflict if Henry had been able to keep the support of York, which is true because if he’d kept York on side, York would never have attempted to get the throne he would have just been happy to be part of the king’s council. Had Henry kept York loyal, the battle of St.
It is obvious from the excerpt that the connection between kingship and the divine power is significant; in fact, the divine power grants kingship and without it's approval, kingship is lost. It is stated that whether or not King Shou would win the war and maintain his position as king relied solely on “the gracious decision of Heaven”. It is only “Heaven” that bestows power upon a king and it is only “heaven” that can revoke these same powers. In the case of king Shou, heaven revoked his powers by determining his fate in the war. As described by zhou, “the king of Shang, is without principle, cruel and destructive to the creatures of Heaven...”.
But Haeman didn’t believe that, he wanted to marry Antigone and so when Creon was talking to Haeman, Creon said that he would not marry Antigone while she lives (1044, Antigone). So Haeman says if she dies another death will happen too (1044, Antigone). He wasn’t lying because when Antigone was buried Haeman killed himself. And that happened because of Creon’s actions. And when that happened and the choragus told Creon about what the gods might do, Creon quickly freed Antigone and was going to build a tomb for Polyneices.
Fate and free will shows how his parent’s choice sets his destiny and pathways without Oedipus having a say in the matter. This also highlights the irony of blindness. This is explored by Sophocles in Oedipus the King through dramatic techniques and manipulation of events and consequences which will be evaluated throughout this speech. Firstly, pride is a major concept in Oedipus the King and also self-determination to seek and pursue is portrayed as the equivalent of self-injury. Oedipus’s pride that drives him to be determined to seek out the truth of his identity and Laius’s murder is seen as a courageous action by the people of Thebes but ends up being Oedipus’s downfall.
Oedipus first runs away when a drunken man tells him that his parents are not his real parents and he wants to seek wisdom on this from the oracle of Apollo. The oracle tells Oedipus a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus said that “When (he) heard that, (he) ran away” (Sophocles 56). Oedipus then makes the choice to run away and not go back to Corinth, his home. Oedipus has other options that he could have chosen instead of running away from home.
The optimism that he had held onto through the death of loved ones and ghastly war sites was given up because of the way that the government and the church were acting at the present time. This was a bold statement that Voltaire had been making, and statements such as this were the reasons why Voltaire kept getting exiled from countries. Candide then describes optimism as “a mania for saying things are well when on is in hell” (Voltaire 40). This shows how Candide realized his previous obsession with optimism was a lie and that it had been a mania to even think