How does Miller make us admire Proctor more as the play progresses? Initially Proctor is shown as a self-loathing hypocrite, who has committed adultery with Abigail Williams. Miller presents Proctor with a flaw to make us not make our minds up about him fully. However as the play progresses he gains our admiration by confessing and redeeming his sins as he is motivated by truth and justice, and to challenge a corrupt authority. Although we see how destructive Proctor’s sin has been and how flawed he is as a result, we admire his determination to atone and sympathise with his dilemma.
Shakespeare shows through Duncan, who carries a legitimate power, that only direct threats to the kingdom are punished accordingly. Illegitimate power is also shown to result in manipulated relationships. Macbeth’s relationship with Lady Macbeth is evidence of this. They were both madly in love with each other in the beginning, Macbeth greeting his mistress tenderly and saying that she is his “dearest love” (1-6-57). However as the events unfold, they become allies more than lovers in their quest to claim the throne, and Macbeth is manipulated and encouraged to do wrong.
Beatrice expresses her acceptance of Benedick’s love but does not realize the love inside Beatrice exists artificially. Beatrice’s faith in her emotions leaves her vulnerable to any criticism of her love to Benedick. For instance, when Hero commands Margaret to fetch Beatrice, Hero and Ursula purposely allow Beatrice to listen to them to invoke a stronger attraction in Beatrice towards Benedick. Shakespeare allows the first sign of the theme deception to manifests itself within Hero and Ursula’s conversation. Shakespeare aims to project a very harsh form of deception here in order to emphasize the power of deception of love.
Hamlet is dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible, because it is in excess of the facts as they appear.... We should have to understand things which Shakespeare did not understand himself." T.S. Eliot (Hamlet and His Problems) In the play Hamlet [Titles] by William Shakespeare the cast of main characters use the support given to them by the foils to enhance the play. A foil is a minor character who by simulations [?] and differences reveals character, and who, as an element of plot, is there for the more important character to talk to (vevra [sic] ).
Then the women try’s to get revenge bye poisoning the man’s new lover. Macbeth was written sometime between 1603 -1606. However it was set hundreds of years in the past. This is because Shakespeare was trying to show the issues at his time such as: The relationship between cruelty and masculinity, The Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition and The Difference between Kingship and Tyranny. As king James 1 was the king of Scotland and England he has based the play with him in mind and in Scotland.
In Shakespeare’s play, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, he greatly contrasts the relationships developed between Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero. One is developed through deception and works well while the other is developed through true love and descends into tragedy. There is evidently a contrast between the love of Claudio and Hero and Benedick and Beatrice, as there is in their characteristics and attributes. Claudio and Hero's relationship being simply conventional and apparent whereas Beatrice and Benedick's is based on their wit and deeper feelings. Claudio first presents his love at first sight for Hero in the quotation, ‘Can the world buy such a jewel?’ Claudio’s use of the word ‘jewel’ demonstrates that a jewel is something that is only attractive to the eye and demonstrates that he only cares about the looks of a woman.
Hamlet portrays falsity when using rage against Ophelia after discovering she has been apart of a plot of revenge. He uses this as an opportunity to deny his love for her and degrade her until she felt horrible about her self. “I did love you once but you should have not belived me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.”(3.1.114-119). It becomes clear that Hamlet did truly love Ophelia, yet hid it because he was a coward.
He then goes on to say “I loved you not” (III.I.129.) meaning that Ophelia’s beauty caused him to lie, and not be realistic. Although Hamlet did in fact love Ophelia, he’s attempting to argue that when he said he loved her, it was really her beauty that was cheating his honesty. In this case, appearance conquered reality. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what “seems” isn’t always the same as being.
Would I have two coxcombs and two daughters'. Goneril and Regan being fools is portrayed through this statement as coxcombs are the hats jesters or fools wear, and the Fool is comparing these to them. He also states his point of view towards Lear's decision to banish Cordelia, and believes Lear to be a 'sweet and bitter fool' for this action. This shows one of his functions is to
By discussing their lies and deception the poet allows the readers into the hidden truths of the two key characters by the back door. The structure of sonnet 138 and its word choice provide hints that there are more vital truths about its key characters the speaker in the sonnet and his mistress. Richard Levin quite accurately states that Shakespeare’s sonnet 138 is centred on the speaker’s personality by presenting him as an innocent youth to his mistress and a cynic to his readers (28). Without relying on imagery and metaphors, the poem directly describes the unconventional relationship between its speaker and his lover. By playing with words, the poem provides a justification for the flawed relationship thus constructing “mutual deception” as its obvious message.