In other words, he was saying I would rather die and honorable death and be myself then become a part of Salem’s lies. In the very beginning of the play, I believed that John Proctor was a sinner and a feared man among the townspeople of Salem. I though that John Proctor was cheating on his wife, Elizabeth, and that he was considered by the townspeople an “evil man”. He commited lechery when he “thought softly” about Abigail. However, John Proctor eventually told Abby that he would “cut off his hand before he reached for her again”.
I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory." (p.104) Holden wants to die because everyone is a phony but he wants to live because the phonies would judge him if he jumped. During the same part of the book, Holden talks about how he was trying to find some kind of “good-by” to Pencey, he says “What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of good-by. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that.
Displaying his idealist nature, Cassius blamed his, Brutus’s, and the other conspirators submissive stance not on a predestined plan, but on their failure to proclaim themselves. “Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once”. (77) Every time someone is too afraid to step forward in their life, they lose a little bit of themselves. Shakespeare refers to the metaphorical
How I wish you’d died there, killed by that strong warrior who was my husband once.”(3. 480-483) In contrast, the Troy counterpart was grateful that he made the less popular choice of keeping himself alive by cowering away from certain death. She even praised him that he ran away, not to save his skin, but ‘for love’. Achilles wins eternal glory by explicitly rejecting the option of a long, comfortable, uneventful life at home for one of hardship and adversity. This means test of judging character extended itself even to the gods.
In contrast, Creon is left shattered and ironically without family, having lost command of events after being so determined to remain in control. I suppose Perhaps Antigone was kind of over-reactedreacts. Before Antigone chooses to die, I highly appreciate her courage and responsibility, yet. But when I know she is going to kill herself, I begin to wander wonder about her inner thoughts. Maybe what Antigone cherished cherishes most was is her position of loving justice rathermore than her own brother.
Sophocles’(496-406) second most famous play Antigone contains many contrasts. According to G. M. Kirkwood, “A contrast between Antigone and Creon lies at the heart of the drama can be taken for granted” (118). In the story, Antigone wants to bury her brother, who fought bravely and died on the battlefield, but to do so would be to break the law since her brother fought on the side of Argos, the enemy of Thebes. Creon, her uncle, who has become king, represents the law. Although she cares for and respects her brother, her conscience will not let her disrespect her brother.
Antigone’s virtuous personality and the need to do what is right for her brother, Polyneices, is why she is considered a classical Greek tragic hero. Antigone can’t stand the fact to see her brother humiliated so she immediately takes action. Antigone runs to the town square and gives her brother a proper burial process, even though it is against king Creon’s word. She understands that if she doesn’t take action and bury her brother, she will regret it for the rest of eternity. Antigone would selflessly die for her brother’s proper burial and freedom in the afterlife because she values her family more than anything on this earth.
A hero suffers an extreme reversal of fortune, from great success to abysmal failure, which causes immense suffering. Brutus suffers from knowing that what he did to Caesar was wrong, so he kills himself. He thought that killing Caesar was a great success to Rome, which then leads to a dreadful failure, the people of Rome saying that what he did was dishonorable. After his failure, he decides to let Caesar not suffer anymore, “Caesar, now be still; I kill’s not thee with half so good a will.”(V, 5 50-1) After his dreadful failure, his final suffering entered his life, “I know my hour is come,” (V, 5 19) Brutus’s immense suffering and only escape was death, and suffered his death honorably. A tragic flaw is a weakness that makes a hero susceptible to mistake, which brings on the fate of personal tragedy.
Events in time lie before or after each other on a fixed time line. From the view of objective time, we do not feel pain or sorrow from loss or suffering because from outside of time nothing ever changes. Everything that happens remains fixed on the line; therefore we do not feel these emotions because nothing has changed. Nothing in life is lost; it always remains and endures on the time line, fixed in its place. Loss and separation are what we feel from inside of time, unable to observe objective time and perceiving an illusion of time, known as subjective time, which refers to time as having a past present and future.
Romeo decides that whatever happens is up to fate and it’s completely out of his control. Also, after killing Tybalt, he calls himself “Fortune’s fool” and realizes he will be punished severely (3.1.142). Romeo is basically says he is a subject to the whims of fate. He thinks fate is playing around with him and not taking responsibility for what he himself did. However when he hears of Juliet’s “death” Romeo tries to “defy the stars” and kills himself (5.1.25).