To fit with the heightened realism of the play, I would exaggerate the mental pain that the character is going through by associating some lines with physical pain, such as ‘But my mother, and her bed mate Aegisthus, Split open his head with a murderous axe’. I would clutch my head as if it was giving me a migraine causing huge pain. I would also emphasise Electra’s vengefulness by raising my voice and becoming incredibly angry in the lines where she is praying to the gods for help ‘ Help me Hades and Persephone, Hermes of Hell and Lady Curse […] Come, help me avenge the murder of my father’. When Electra says’ ‘ the weight of grief crushes me down’ I would show this physically, by dropping down to the floor as if I had been crushed, as I think it would help to portray how Electra is beginning to break down. I feel that this would help to emphasis the characters desperation to the audience and helps the audience to empathise with the character.
In Oedipus the King, one trait that makes Oedipus a tragic hero is that he is responsible for his own fate. Oedipus marries his mother, Queen Jocasta, and kills his father, King Lauis. When Oedipus is communicating with the city of Thebes he says, “Not pointed out as wedded to the one who weaned me. Now I am god-abandoned a son of sin and sorrows all incest-sealed with the womb that bore me” (74). Also, when the official who is telling the city of Thebes that Oedipus blinded himself he says, “He shouts for all the barriers to be unbarred and he displayed to all of Thebes, his father’s murderer, his mothers…no, a word too foul to say…”(71).
This displays the knight’s hostility and disrespect for women. Through course of law, King Arthur condemned the knight to be beheaded. Traditionally rape was a crime in which justice would be served in the form of capital punishment. After the protests and sorrowful pleas of the queen and her ladies, Arthur puts the knight’s life in the hands of the queen. Differing from Wife of Bath’s Tale, Lanval, the story of a well-respected, but often envied knight is a victim of circumstance.
By contextualizing his novel into a winter ambience, the season is able to symbolize a turbulent community experiencing conflict. The metaphorical notion that ‘haphazard cedar fences lined the careless roads’ suggests that man against nature’s will has constructed the divisions within society. This representation of nature’s disapproval of the social divide established by man is a reflection of Guterson’s purpose of the text, to draw attention to racial prejudices towards the Japanese before, after and during world war two. The continuing motif of snow represents the chilling burden of hatred that distorts humanity, which is juxtaposed to the continuing motif of cedars, symbolizing nature’s resilience to shake off injustice. By using the setting of winter and the representations of nature as snow and cedars, the responder identifies Guterson’s own opinion, that the social divide amongst the white-Americans and the Japanese is socially immoral.
True masculinity is a conceptual fallacy. Macbeth’s hamartia is his indulgence in the concept of masculinity. Lady Macbeth, the main female protagonist demasculinizes Macbeth throughout the play for his lack of assertiveness. Manipulatively, she states to Macbeth, “What beast was’t then, /That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.47-49).. She defines manhood as stark aggression to achieve power in any means necessary such as killing Duncan.
Just as heredity is formed in society today, that same effect takes place in the epic poem Beowulf. Mindful of Grendel and his Mother’s behavior, the unknown author portrays and demonstrates their evil in “The Battle with Grendel” and “Grendel’s Mother” --- as pointed out by both Grendel and his Mother’s compulsion to kill, insidiousness towards others, and fetish for human flesh --- allaying the astounding thought that killers such as Grendel and his Mother are affectionate individuals.
I say this because just like in The Hunger Games, with how the Capitol is convinced that their actions are justified, Medea has herself convinced that her act of filicide is completely justified. Her mentality is that of revenge. She believes that because her husband Jason has broken his oath to her, it gives her the justification for committing a mass murder. To exact revenge upon Jason she decides that she is going to murder his soon to be bride, the bride’s father, and at last her two children. In the book, after Medea talks about what she will do to the princess she tells the chorus “ I will kill the children—my children.
Macbeth struggled with this concept, contemplating whether he should carry out the evil deed. He conjured up a list of reasons to avoid killing King Duncan. Lady Macbeth then challenged Macbeth’s manhood, referring to him as a coward. Only then did he take it upon himself to kill the king. Although, Macbeth takes the dagger and kills King Duncan, Lady Macbeth was the one who planned to kill him that night and frame his guards.
The truth is that many of these decisions that Macbeth makes or follows is based on what the witches told him. One example of this is when Lady Macbeth convinces him to kill Duncan in order to become king. She specifically says, “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be / What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature / … / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, / and chastise with the valor of my tongue” (1.5.16-17, 27-28). In this quote Lady Macbeth is thinking about the witches prophecy and how she can make it come true.
Macbeth had reason to be afraid of Macduff, so he sent men to kill Macduff’s wife and children. This showed how evil he had become. When Macbeth became king, he showed how desperate he was by planting spies in the nobles’ houses and putting out lies about Malcolm, who should have legally been on the throne. Even when he heard that his wife had died, Macbeth’s response