Stanley is guilty of this throughout the whole play by always trying to outsmart Blanche. This is Stanley’s main hamartia in the play. In scene three, Stanley is even willing to hit his wife, who is pregnant with his child, to gain back the respect and power he felt he was losing by having Blanche there. Stanley sees nothing wrong with what he is doing, until it is too late and is incapable of understanding his wrongful fight to gain back his sense of dignity. Modern Tragedy is also described as being the ‘consequence of a man’s total consumption to evaluate himself’.
Being in a position where a male is not the dominant sex can really make one begin to doubt their masculinity. In a society where males and females compete for everything, it is hard for a male to establish himself. This can be seen metaphorically through Fight Club when Marla Singer invades The Narrator’s support groups. Those meetings allow him to sleep at night and this is his peace. He goes on to talk about how much she hates her for being a faker and plans on saying, “…Marla, you big fake, you get out” (Palahniuk 24).
William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, is not in fact a play of fate, but a tragedy that happens because of all the uncontrollable greed and need for power by the main character, Macbeth, and his wife. Throughout the play, the audience witnesses the changes in Macbeth’s character. His uncontrollable need for power causes him to make sinister decisions that lead him into madness and misery. His greed for power constructs a maze to his own deathbed. After many twists and turns, it becomes a challenge for him to be tolerated by others; he turns his friends and subjects away from him and enters a dark world ruled by greed.
Lennie's previous problem with a woman at Weed and Curley's wife's aggressive manner combined with Curley's paranoid bravado and immediate dislike for Lenny make a conflict concerning the three characters inevitable. When George lies to the boss by telling him that he is Lennie's cousin, he reinforces the suspicion that there is something suspect about their friendship. The boss cannot understand that two men would have any concern for each other unless they were bound by familial connections, and George's lie demonstrates that this view is widespread. George, in particular, has cares that occur beyond a narrow scope of self-interest, a view that clashes with the widespread individualist mindset. He is in some ways comparable to Candy, whose care for a decrepit old dog marks him as a weak and sentimental
As shown with their actions throughout Act One. These actions include the constant bickering between George and Martha and their cruel behaviour to each other and to Nick and Honey. “Daddy...says a man is only part brain... he has body, too and it’s his responsibility to keep both of them up...you know?” Martha’s reference to “body” is a direct insult to George as she compares Nick’s superiority over George. With the little material success on George’s “salary,” her constant reference to her father suggests that she is dwelling on the fact it is not “the way it was supposed to be.” George and Martha’s current domestic situation is utterly opposite to what is ideal. 3.
Widely reputed throughout Padua to be a shrew, Katherine is foul-tempered and sharp-tongued at the start of the play, she constantly insults and degrades the men around her, and she is prone to wild displays of anger. She detests the social expectations that a woman should bow down to her husband, this attitude repels all suitors from courting her. Her father Baptista aware of this declares that his youngest daughter may not be married until Katherine is wed. Petruchio conscious of Katherine’s financial status approaches Baptista to request his daughter’s hand in marriage, knowing he won’t refuse due to the lack of suitors for Katherine. They are wed, and shortly after they return to their home Petruchio sends a meal back to the kitchen, claiming its burnt and puts Katherine to bed, enter this extract. Petruchio returns to the stage alone and announces his intentions.
Holmes refuses to function without one or the other, for he "loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul" (Doyle 239). House's addiction's are almost the exact same as Holmes'. He pops Vicodin like Tic Tacs, and only cares about his difficult cases, ignoring his other medical duties, until he is forced to deal with in order to progress with the case he is actually interested in. And when his superior prevents him from moving forward in the case he is interested, House explodes with rage, storming into her office, yelling at the top of his lungs. His reaction to being pulled
Both the whore and the crone were disregarded and not accepted because they were strange, uncommon and their dominant and powerful nature intimidated men. The witches easily fall into the category of the crone. Men and women alike were fearful of the witches’ authority and their supremacy; and so, put up with the witches power and their eccentric behavior. Macbeth approaches them for help many times throughout the play but this a common theme throughout the play, where men believe that they can use women yet not respect them as equal human beings – A feminist would not be satisfied with this whole idea! Macbeth says
Hamlet also knew that he could not tell anyone that Claudius has murdered his father or that he had seen the ghost of his father because no one would believe him. Throughout the play Hamlet expresses his “madness” an example would be when he meets Ophelia in the court. In the beginning of their conversation he tells her that he once loved her but then is also confused saying that he didn’t love her at all. This is due to the fact that he sees woman as deceivers because of his mother’s relationship with his uncle. When Hamlet discovers that Polonius and the King are hiding nearby he explodes in a fit of rage, violently attacking her verbally and physically almost like a mad person would.
But during the plan Montag could not hold in his anger by shouting "'Shut up!'" towards Faber and the ladies (Bradbury 98). Montag despised the women who did not care about life in general because the women ignored Montag. He jeopardized the plan that Faber came up with and ended up betraying Faber. After, while Montag was igniting his house, Beatty claimed, "When you're quite finished, you're under arrest" (Bradbury 111).