Iago has many rather theoretical reasons for his revenge, one of which being his failure to receive the spot of lieutenant, and the other being that he “suspect[s] the lusty Moor” of sleeping with his wife, Emilia. Iago, being a very jealous and icy man sees that the only way to be “even’d with him” is to go “wife for wife”. Iago’s revenge is a carefully plotted strategy that involves many intricate details and occurrences. This extract tells the reader a lot about Iago’s plan that has previously only been assumed. Iago is so emotionally detached that he claims his ‘love’ for Desdemona exists predominantly “to diet [his] revenge”.
5. The plot of The Crucible consists of many battles between many opposites. In an essay, identify one such opposite and explain why Arthur Miller included it. When reading and watching The Crucible, feelings of deep abomination developed towards one single character. The character that was selfish enough to take people’s lives for her desires; the character that ruined that “perfect little ending” not only for others, but for herself as well.
However, as the novel advances, her true character begins to unveil. Daisy Buchanan is seen as the true villain in The Great Gatsby for her materialism, selfishness, and extreme greed. One of the many questions the reader has about Daisy is why she tolerates her husband, Tom Buchanan’s, infidelities. And although according to Glenn Settle in “Fitzgerald's Daisy: The Siren Voice,” both “Daisy and Tom are careless people” (118), Daisy is shockingly more ruthless. In “Her Story and Daisy Buchanan,” writer Leland Person states, “Daisy expresses the same desire to escape the temporal world” (251).
Parker Freeman Revenge is a Cask Best Served Cold In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the author uses the characterization of Montresor to show that justified vengeance, no matter how well executed, can possibly cause guilt. In the exposition of the story, the reader finds that the protagonist, Montresor, has a major problem with another man. Montresor rationalizes his problem “The thousands injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” (pg. 818) Montresor gives reason to his anger, attempting justify his vengeance. As the story progresses, Montresor begins enacting his devious plan to get back at Fortunato.
Many literary techniques are used to create a level of atmosphere in his writing and descriptions. He uses several extended metaphors or symbolism such as suffocation, drowning and death One of the clear implications when writing is how he uses the theme of “Suffocation” within the duration of this description. The dictionary definition of “Suffocation” is “preventing the access of air to the blood throughthe lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle. This has a strong association on what Dickens is implying in various parts of the description. For example one of the quotes that are used is “(an) oversleeping rip van winkle” In a separate story Rip van Winkle slept for twenty years.
A Reoccurring Theme A reoccurring theme in Edgar Allen Poe’s stories is the darkness and evil that humans are capable of. In “The Black Cat” and “The Cask of Amontillado” the theme is portrayed by the narrator of the story. In both stories, the narrators are driven to commit murder; however, their motives for doing so are different. Edgar Allen Poe uses both characters to convey the true nature of man and their susceptibility to commit violence. Though the stories are different in name and plot, they definitely have similarities and differences, yet they portray the same theme.
Writers have long used the motif of insanity within literature to convey, in symbolic form, our narcissistic preoccupation with our own psyche, with the treatment of madness in literature perhaps reflecting human ambivalence towards the mind itself . In ‘Jane Eyre’, Charlotte Bronte presents mental instability through the character Bertha Mason, whose existence acts as a barrier to the relationship between the eponymous heroine and Mr Rochester. Bertha is concealed by Rochester in a secret room of Thornfield which exacerbates her madness, and this characteristic strongly distinguishes her from Jane’s ‘European’ virtues of patience and servility, hence her existence being an obstacle in Rochester’s relationship to Jane. In ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, Jean Rhys presents madness using the symbolism of fire in connection to one of the main protagonists, Antoinette. The characters (Bertha in Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ and Antoinette in Rhys’ ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’)have an intertextual relationship and the ‘mad’ behaviour they both exhibit is linked to the Nineteenth century conception of female hysteria, which was once a common medical diagnosis made exclusively for women considered to be suffering from madness.
Laura Niemi Dr. Tait ENG 450 21 October, 2012 Othello The analysis of this play doesn’t begin with Othello, but it does start with the fact that Iago is the evil person portrayed here. He plays on Othello’s thoughts and emotions which makes Othello absolutely insane. He uses the passion that Roderigo has for Desdemona as a dagger to play on his unending nerves. He also uses Cassio’s character of love as well as drink against the lieutenant, along with Desdemona’s chastity against her. His plan of action was almost complete if he was able to murder Cassio.
In Hamlet, his prominent character trait of indecisiveness and other traits are revealed and better seen when compared and contrasted to the rest of the cast. Jamil 2 One of these foils is the character of Laertes. Laertes and Hamlet both share a common goal, revenge for the murder of their father. However, the way they go about this is different. Unlike Hamlet, Laertes is ablaze with motivation and action, and says that he will throw “conscience and grace to the profoundest pit” (4.5.
Such indecision in action is explored extensively through Hamlet's procrastination concerning "vengeance…for a dear father murder'd". Struggling with the divisiveness of slaughtering Claudius, Hamlet's brooding soliloquies best reveal his indecision and apathetic intellectualism. The rhetorical musing 'To be or not to be...whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer…or to take arms against a sea of troubles" exhibits, in its mere length, Hamlet's universal struggle with morality and hesitancy. Positioned to slaughter Claudius in Act 3 Scene 3, Hamlet rationalises his inaction and indecision, "To take him in the purging of his soul, when he is fit and seasoned for his passage? No".