He then blames two guards for the deed and becomes king of Scotland. Throughout the course of this play, Macbeth murders his best friend, Banquo, Macduffs entire family, and plots to kill more so he may keep his title. He becomes crazy with power and rants about the witches’ predictions daily. He becomes, in his eyes, immortal. On the other hand, his wife becomes so guilty for their deed she begins to sleepwalk and talk of their crime in the night.
When Creon learns that Antigone has buried her brother, he becomes furious and sentences Antigone to death despite his son’s and Antigone’s fiancé pleading, as well as a warning from the prophet. But as the prophet for-told, the gods are on Antigone’s side and for Creon’s crime he loses his only son, Haemon and his wife. The begging of the play, Antigone has her sister, Isemen outside the city gates. Antigone is trying to get Ismene to help her bury their brother, Polyncies. But Ismene refuses to help her sister, fearing the death penalty installed by Creon.
Hamlet struggles with himself, he begins to act strangely. Just look at the scene with himself and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he acts strangely, he disrupts normal life in the palace, he too brings chaos to Ophelia's life too. She apparently loses her mind and ends her life with suicide. Polonius is killed. Laertes wants to avenge the death of his father by killing Hamlet.
This extract from Act Four Scene Five of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the scene where Juliet is discovered lying lifeless on her bed the day she was supposed to marry Paris. Her family and Paris mourn her apparent death. The audience, unlike Paris and the Capulets, knows that Juliet is not really dead, but has taken a potion that will make her appear dead as part of an elaborate plan by Romeo, Juliet and Friar Lawrence. In later scenes, the Friar's message that Juliet's death is not real will be miscommunicated to Romeo, and this would cause him to end his life and thus lead to the tragic ending of the play. All of Juliet's family members seem to show more emotion and care more about Juliet than they ever did when she was alive.
In “Hamlet” byWilliam Shakespeare, Hamlet experienced acts of betrayal by individuals in his inner circle and reciprocated with acts of revenge which ultimately resulted in his his death. In the novel, Hamlet, the main character was portrayed as an intelligent university student who returned home to attend his father’s funeral. The first incident of betrayal Hamlet experienced occurred when Claudius, Hamlet's uncle/stepfather /King, killed his father and took control effectively robbing Hamlet of the crown and the chance to be King. Hamlet adored his father and was devastated when his mother, Gertrude, had an incestuous relationship with his uncle who she married so quickly after his father’s death that ..the funeral baked meats…did furnish forth the marriage tables. 1.2.184-185.
As soon as the nurse finds out that Tybalt is dead her reaction is very troubling and she doesn’t exactly know how to break it to Juliet so at the end result she says, “Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.” (3.2.69-70). This quote is a literal and a grammatical structure because Juliet is very upset but angry as well, she is young and she doesn’t exactly known what to do in the situation. Romeo’s blamed for the death of Tybalt. Fat occurs again when Romeo comes to the understanding that Juliet is dead and he kills himself too. At the start of the play Romeo dreams that if he goes to
Khendall Garcia Medea Final Essay- Draft In the tragedy Medea by Euripides, Jason’s insane ex-wife Medea murders their children and Corinth’s princess in a futile and envious attempt at revenge. According to the famous Greek Aristotle, a tragic hero must suffer unfairly, is neither completely good nor bad and must finally lose everything in the end. During the play, Jason illustrates the qualifications of a tragic hero through his actions and characteristics. Evidence of this is seen when Jason causes Medea anguish but later offers assistance, and children and new wife are brutally murdered leaving him deserted. The play open up to Medea screeching, moaning and crying over her husband’s infidelity.
Medea, by Euripedes. The tragedy starts with Jason’s betrayal to Medea, his Barberian wife, who to revenge herself kills her own children and Glauce, new wife of Jason. In the Exodos, Jason returns to his old house in the attempt to save his boys, but he learns by the chorus that they are already dead, murdered by Medea. The scene pursues with Jason’s anger towards his ex-wife and her manifestation of pleasure in seeing his desperation is evident throughout the text. POWER : The theme of objective power – free of a subjective judgement from the reader- is largely developed throughout the Exodos.
Falling action - The action begins to fall after Juliet commits suicide after finding Romeo dead. It continues as both families find their children dead. Denouement - Escalus tells everyone that the deaths are the result of their feuds and everyone feels guilty. Character I did not believe that the characters in this play were very well established. While the interest in Macbeth came mainly from watching the main character and his mental development, it was not so in
Markus Zusak successfully portrays this type of change in The Book Thief when Liesel, the protagonist, is forced to watch her brother die. She is not able to accept his death and so this event plagues her in her dreams. She is also blind to the reason why her brother has been forced to die. Only when she realises how much of a role Hitler has played in the loss of her family and in the major changes that her life has suffered does she begin to accept her reality: ‘Her starving mother, her missing father. Kommunisten.