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.
She has changed when she say to The Misfit "Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!” She realizes she is as guilty as he is for murdering her family because she manipulated her son Bailey to take this road. The grandmother is sneaky and manipulative as she does something very significant to leads up to the ending of the story and the situation of the accident and initially getting murdered at the end of the story by the Misfit whom she knew about all along “Now look here Baily” she said “ see here read this,” “here is the fellow that call him self The Misfit” (308) She tries to manipulate her son Bailey to go on vacation to Tennessee instead of Florida by using The Misfit as a excuse not to head that way. The day the Family leaves to vacation is when the grandmother did something very sneaky. She snuck in a cat in her bag “ The next morning the grandmother was the first on in the car, ready to go.
However, the evidence throughout the book explores Mr. Harvey’s evolution into a monster. His beginnings, eccentric habits, and interactions with the main characters in the book all have undercurrents of change,along with where his need arose in his lonely life. He appears a pitiful bachelor, but is quite the clever predator. Mr. Harvey experienced childhood trauma that may have contributed to his actions. At an impressionable young age, he was abandoned by his mother, which may have led to his choice of killing women and girls.
In this play, the Queen of the Goths, Tamora seeks revenge against Andronicus family when they show no mercy and murder her sons. In the same way, Titus Andronicus who is a famous general in Rome seeks revenge against Tamora and the emperor of Rome, Saturninus for murdering his sons. In addition to this, Tamora’s sons, Demetrius and Chiron shows no mercy to Titus’s daughter, Lavinia which opens themselve upto revenge. Therefore, in Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare demonstrates that when justice and mercy fail, revenge flourishes. In his play, Shakespeare shows that when the well-known general of Rome, Titus, does not show mercy to Tamora’s eldest son, Alarbus, one of his Goth war prisoner, Tamora then seeks revenge.
The water sinks away when he bends to drink it, and the fruit rises up when he reaches to eat it. He is eternally tantalized—a term we use today. Tantalus’s crime initiates generations of violence and tragedy, each crime begetting further bloodshed. Pelops, restored to life by the gods, seeks to marry the princess Hippodamia. She can only be won by the suitor who beats her father in a chariot race; if the suitor loses, he is killed.
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.
Mrs. Lovett falls in love with him and tells him his wife killed herself. It ended in Anthony's plan succeeding, only after Sweeney almost killed Johanna. Mr. Todd gets his revenge and finally kills the Judge but also kills his wife. Upon realizing, he throws Mrs. Lovett in the oven for lying and is killed by the boy that helped around the shop, Toby. The actors got into their roles very much in depth, I felt the motivations of each character.
The ghost informed Hamlet that he had been killed by Sir King Claudius and that Claudius was, in fact, Hamlet's uncle. From there, the ghost only asked for one thing and one thing only, and all the deceased king requested was revenge from his son. Taking in all this information, wanting to avenge his father's death, and wanting to do as his father asks causes Hamlet to do many crazy things, including pretending to have lost his sanity. This causes many deaths in the story during Hamlet's journey to revenge. One of which was Polonious, who was stabbed by Hamlet during Hamlets rant to his mother.
His plan of action was almost complete if he was able to murder Cassio. Iago’s motives are told throughout the entire play such as, seeking revenge due to the fact that Othello was given the title of lieutenant, throwing out accusations of him sleeping with his wife. In the end he is handed over to the torturers where he finally is quiet and stops giving reasons. Critic Robert Heilman (1956) states “lago’s case is too good; as a hunter of motives has bagged more than the legal limit” (pg.33). Othello is susceptible to lago’s evil.
Once he finds out this is true he blinds himself and banned his self from civilization forever. He is the most tragic hero because fate was a main part of the tragedy. Oedipus rose to be king then fell to become a blind person who committed incest. Hamlet main goal was to avenge his father. Hamlet’s father’s ghost appears to Hamlet telling him what happened and to avenge him.