Thus, telling him that he is low in status and dishonourable is quite striking to Brutus due to being a righteous soldier and Shakespeare is possibly using this as a way to get him to listen to what Cassius has to say in order to break these weak titles. Thus, this entire quote is hinting that if he doesn’t do anything about Caesar’s power, he will be a dishonourable man of Rome, the country will be controlled by ‘one man’ and he will remain helpless. This
This action leads to him being considered a tragic hero. Creon’s human flaw of arrogance causes him to ignore reasoning and advice and listen only to his own thoughts. He states, "My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city". He is afraid to go back on his word because it will hurt his pride and he is afraid that it will cause him to lose power with his subjects. This action causes him to lose everyone that he loves.
Just before this scene, Creon indicts both Ismene and Antigony as mad, and he sends them both to be locked away for later execution. In the beginning of the play, Antigone might have been seen as irrational and foolish. As for Creon, we might not have known too much about him aside from the fact that he is a strict ruler. Now, upon hearing what he had to say to Ismene and Antigony, we discover that he is in fact ruthless and irrational himself, and that Antigony, despite being irrationally headstrong at times, seems to take on a nobler persona in comparison to Creon’s stubborn character. Sophicles then introduces Haemon, which not only further depicts Creon as an unreasonable tyrant, but also backs Antigony’s argument in a more rational way.
However, More also has a pragmatic side. More tries to protect himself from the consequences of disapproving the King by using the human law. He believes that if he makes no statement about the divorce, he would not be found guilty for any reason. In the play, when Cromwell and Rich are accusing Moore of treason, he defenses his innocence by stating that he has never made any public statement on whether he approves the King’s divorce and according to the law he is thus not guilty. Later in the play, More explains his silence to his wife again.
Hamlet increasingly gets angrier and angrier with himself as he keeps talking, and his anger turns to Claudius. Hamlet is now angry and self-loathing. He calls himself a “scullion” which means the lowest of the servants. He tells his brain to start working and gets an idea: to watch Claudius’ reaction to the modified version of The Mousetrap to confirm or deny his guilt about the King’s murder, which is the fourth part of Hamlet’s soliloquy. In the soliloquy, Hamlet is at first upset with himself about finding ways to avoid avenging his Father’s murder, like his spirit in ghost form told him to.
As noted in “Apology”, Socrates is trying to defend himself and explain his behavior to the jurymen as he states “I must surely defend myself and attempt to uproot from your minds in so short a time the slander that has resided there so long” (22). Socrates discards exile and prison, and offers to pay a fine only to find out that the jury rejected his proposal and had sentenced him to death. Socrates was against this at first, but then he gives in as he states “He assesses the penalty at death. So be it” (38) because he had decided that he shouldn’t fear something that he has never witnessed before, in this case, death. In “Crito”, Crito comes up with two arguments on the ethical level: if Socrates gave into death, he is helping his foes win by giving in to what they want and he would be leaving behind his sons and family.
Thus Hamlet equates "soul" with one's actions, so by his own comparison his soul is weak, as he does not take action against the king. The second sentence is furthermore a rhetorical question, beginning with, "Is it notŠ" So clearly Hamlet's lack of emotion is "monstrous" in his own mind at the very start of the monologue. The equation of "Hecuba" to "nothing" is then contrasted by Hamlet's "cue" being the murder of his father. Hamlet then states that the actor would "drown the stage with tears" if he were in Hamlet's position. The visual hyperbole which is compounded by the repetit... ... middle of paper ... ...tions: Hamlet.
“I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” (3.4.136-138) In this quote, Macbeth is telling himself that because he has stepped into evil so deeply, it will be hard to go back to morallity because he will never be able to rid of this guilt brought onto him. He begins to feel so remorseful, that he starts hallucinating and realizing that he has done such treacherous deeds. Even though he can still see how his actions are terrible, as the play develops, he begins to inch deeper and deeper into his own destruction of innocence. Macbeth had always felt threatened by Macduff because Macduff knew what a traitor he really was. Therefore, he had wanted to plot to end Macduff’s life as to not pose a threat on his reign any longer.
Pia Brinkschulte February 20, 2012 ELA 30S Mr. Grynol Othello In Shakespeare’s Othello, the main antagonists Iago, starts off from being simply jealous, to turning revengeful and obsessive, making perversive decisions for his need of power and control. Critic A.C. Bradley suggests that this longing to satisfy power is Iago’s main motivation and driving force for his acts and behaviour throughout the play. The chief reason for Iago’s vindictiveness is that Othello chose Cassio over Iago to make him his Lieutenant. Iago feels rejected and despised, he is very bitter towards Othello who downgraded his service and experience in favour of the arithmetic skills that Cassio has. Because Iago’s career path is blocked by a mere lack of paper qualification he first begins to start developing feelings of revenge on Cassio who stole his job.
Othello Who a person decides to trust can make a big impact on their life, whether it be a good or bad one. Only when someone keeps believing lies that they think to be the truth, this can destroy everything that they once used to love. William Shakespeare shows us the tragedy that befalls on a man when he trust's the wrong man through the use of irony and symbolism in the play Othello. In his article over Othello Charles Boyce describes the play as "a domestic comedy gone wrong. "Boyce talks of the jealousy and hate that drives Iago to deceive the moor to "show how a noble man can lose faith and go in a frenzy caused by the loss of trust."