He says, “It is a common thing to have a foolish wife." (line 304, act 3, scene 3). In addition, their ignorance makes them love their husbands blindly. This blind and ignorant love leads them to an early grave when their husbands murder them. Moreover, Desdemona and Emilia are loyal to their husbands.
He presents the tension of love vs. infatuation and love vs. insanity. In “A Woman Killed with Kindness”, a married woman tries to deal with the fact that she has performed a state of infidelity. Even though she has realized what she has done, her outside lover will not accept her choice of continuing to pursue her marriage. So, it is as if she is torn between love and lust. Because of such an act, the woman draws up a tension of love vs. infatuation.
I think pride, anger and greed for power prompted Lear to make the decision of giving up the kingdom to his malicious, hateful and ungrateful daughters, Regan and Cordelia. After that, Lear banishes the earl of Kent, a faithful courtier who disapproves his punishment for Cordelia. The untimely abdication of his throne, his blindness to Cordelia’s authentic love and Kent’s faithfulness triggers and results in a chain reaction of events that send him through a tragic journey. The cruelty and ingratitude of Goneril and Regan is indubitable; and Lear himself is obsessed by the way that his
Finally, how to explain that Cupid’s worshippers are poets? I would like read Marot’s poem as a map of Plato’s conception of love, accompanied by a Christian legend (or commentary). Diotima, the character of Plato’s Symposium identifies love as the springboard to individual progress: for outstanding individuals, love for the beautiful person can grow into artistic creativity and into longing for the divine and absolute beauty. While in Plato the meanings of love can be represented hierarchically, as a ladder, in Marot these meanings become the three concentric spheres, which compose the Temple de Cupido. Erotic love is the outer sphere of the temple.
Hamlet not only finds this hard but near impossible due to his inability to act. We see this greatly in the character of Hamlet. ‘Now might I do it pat, now is a-praying; And now I’ll do’t – and so he goes to heaven, And so am I revenged.’ Hamlet mistrusts women in general and treats them as vile and untrustworthy creatures. Ophelia, Hamlet's true love, is doomed in her relationship from the moment Hamlet takes on the task of revenge. She is unknowingly used in the plot against Hamlet by her father and brother who are supposed to protect her but instead they use her and therefore open a way for Hamlets hate and disappointment to direct at her.To understand Hamlets treatment of Ophelia its essential to look at Hamlets hatred towards his mother.
In addition, his mother’s immediate marriage to his uncle has left him in even greater despair. Mixed in with this extremely large sense of grief, are obvious feelings of anger and frustration. The combination of these emotions can leave the reader (or viewer since it is a play) sympathetic to Hamlet; in which he becomes a very “human” character. The audience can see from the very beginning that he is a very complex and conflicted man, and that his tragedy has already begun. Hamlet’s anger and grief- primarily stemming from his mother’s marriage to Claudius- brings him to thoughts of suicide, which only subside as a result of it being a mortal and religious sin.
By repeating this scheme in each nonameter, Donne exemplifies the persistence possessed by the speaker for love and that if initially denied; the speaker will continue to try to gain the desired love. In addition, many words are repeatedly rhymed in each stanza such as this, is, thee, be, and three which strengthens the speaker’s persistence for love. Further analysis of the rhyme scheme reveals that nearly all of the words rhymed are masculine (e.g. this and is) which suggests that the speaker is male. The synecdoche of the poem consists of alternating iambic tetrameter and pentameter, which helps create rhythm and helps to place the emphasis on the word flea, which is important because it is the object of the metaphor.
“Which of you shall we say doth love us most” Act 1, Scene 1, Line 52. Through this, both King Lear’s and Gloucester’s rage and rashness can be seen, resulting in them both loosing sight of what is important. Despite this, their weak characteristics have a small influence on their tragedy and suffering. After King Lear bestows all his possessions to his daughters, rather than being grateful, Goneril and Regan’s lust for power causes them to turn on their father. In Act 2, Scene 4, Goneril and Regan diminish his retinue, disregard his authority and Goneril instructs her servants to treat King Lear with the utmost disrespect.
This statement is backed up by his blatant lack of care about the fates of the innocent people who get dragged into his revenge plot. Take Desdemona for example, a pure and faithful companion, killed by the man that loved her dearly, just to bring satisfaction to Iago. Another pawn in Iago’s revenge attack is Cassio: ‘If I can fasten but one cup upon him, with that which he hath drunk to-night already, he'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress' dog’. Iago schemes to get Cassio drunk because he knows Cassio will end up getting into a fight. Because he wants Cassio to get in trouble with Othello so that Desdemona will try to intervene on Cassio's behalf, which will make Othello
Lord Capulet essentially endorsed Juliet’s relationship with Romeo without even knowing it. The quarrel between the families caused them to lose their progenies. The deaths of beloved Romeo and Juliet were due to the, “Capulet[‘s and] Montague[‘s], [...] hate, that Heaven [found] means to kill [their] joys with love!” (V.3.315-317) The dispute between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s made Romeo and Juliet’s love less achievable; their love was quite tenacious that they killed themselves to be together. In an acute argument between Juliet and her father, Lord Capulet demanded that she was to, “go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church or [he would] drag [Juliet] on a hurdle thither” (III.5.173-174). Lord Capulet was in dismay when Juliet repudiated marrying Paris, that she only longed for true love.