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
From the short story "Spanish Roulette" by Ed Vega the poet Sixto vows revenge against a local gang member who raped his sister and battles with himself to make the right choice. Although revenge may be the momentary satisfaction in times of despair, no man extracts revenge for the sake of evil, without the intent of profiting from it, and will be punished for it, regardless of reason, in this life or the next. The theme of these stories is the ability to let go of ones hate, to allow themselves the chance to heal without making the dreaded mistake of taking revenge which will ultimately destroy themselves. The message is clear through all three texts that revenge achieves nothing but gambles everything worth losing for the momentary satisfaction of vengeance. Although the three texts go about different ways, reasons, and potential gain by exacting revenge it is very clear through each story that it is never the best answer.
Deadly sins The seven deadly sins are renowned for a reason, which is that just one of them can drive a person insane. Greed and envy together can lead a person into doing immoral and unjustified deeds. In the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, Claudius is the villain who contradicts Knight's The Embassy of Death because Claudius's actions and behavior result from his innate greed for wealth and envy of true love that his brother King Hamlet had; on the other hand, Knight views that his actions were forced upon him due to Hamlet's unstable mentality. (wrap up the thesis statement, condense to the main point. You don't need to make a comparison, but pick which view you agree with, Knight or Shakespeare's, or make it into 2 separate sentences.
On meeting Gloucester he draws attention to the letter by seeming to want to hide it. The fake letter contains a plan by Edgar planning the murder of his own father. The gulling of Gloucester is complete. What had previously appeared to be love and respect soon turns to disrespect and hatred. Lear begins to realise that he has made terrible errors of judgement.
Men have been committing misdeeds since the beginning of humankind. Higher powers use a set system of laws in order to deal out justice to wrongdoers. Where there is no set system of justice, revenge becomes the only other alternative response to the criminal’s crimes. In addition, a conflict can also enrage a person so much as to cause them to seek revenge upon the wrongdoer. Revenge is a twisted, violent form of justice, where the person who seeks revenge is not interested in the criminal making amends to society, but rather wants to get even for the harm that is done to him by the offender.
Revenge is often seen as a person’s way to “get even” after he or she has suffered, in attempt to harm the wrongdoer in retaliation. The only purpose of revenge is to gain satisfaction in seeing the wrongdoer suffer. Through ethical, religious and legal perspectives, revenge is not ever justified. The act upon taking revenge is unethical. For instance in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the feud between the Montagues and Capulets caused pain and suffering towards the innocent characters such as Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Tybalt.
The Influence of Elizabethan Revenge on Shakespeare William Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Hamlet is a portrayal of Elizabethan ideologies of revenge through Hamlet’s thoughts. Revenge in the modern sense of the word is different than the Elizabethan usage of revenge. Now revenge means: retaliation for injuries or wrongs. We view revenge as if it is a non-intellectual way of thinking. What I mean by this is that when someone takes what we call revenge they do it to get payback for another person’s fall.
He also tells the murderers that Banquo is blameworthy for their tragic, unhappy lives. After angering the murderers, Macbeth switches to a more sarcastic tone and manipulates the murderers so they will feel like they need to prove themselves men, worthy of Macbeth’s presence. By asking questions, Macbeth leaves a gap between him and the murderers and waits for them to fill it. He asks “Are you so gospeled/ To pray for this good man and for his issue/ Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave/ And beggared yours forever? (3.1.98-101).
He almost immediately begins planning his course of action towards revenge. Hamlet’s disgust toward his mother is only heightened with this news of murder, “O most pernicious woman! / O villain, villain, smiling damned villain!” (Iv.105-106). Old Hamlet’s ghost has warned Hamlet not to punish Gertrude with hell, but he does not seem to care. Hamlet has now taken this personal with his own desires for revenge, as well as his obligation to his deceased father.
Nevertheless one murder didn't comfort him, he thinks he needs to secure his position. So he goes off and hires hit men to kill who he thinks is his enemy, the one who can take his power, Banqo. Soon enough he finds himself ordering the slaughter of a traitors family, which is when remorse never enters his thoughts. Macbeth’s greed and ambitions are the sheer motivators of his killings and that is evident throughout the journey of the play. As Shakespeare once wrote , “Fair is foul and foul is fair” (Act I, Sc.I, Line