The Coward Oedipus Is “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit”. This quote by Thomas Jefferson portrays Oedipus because throughout ‘Oedipus Rex’ he quarrels with everybody about he truth and becomes blind to it. By blinding himself Oedipus becomes a coward because he doesn’t want to face his crimes. It all started when Oedipus hears a dreadful prophecy that he will murder his father and sleep with his mother. He leaves Corinth and travels to Thebes, and on the way he unknowingly kills his father during a quarrel.
Hamlet continues to say that most of humanity would commit suicide and escape the hardships of life, but do not because they are unsure of what awaits them in the after life. Hamlet throughout the play is continually tormented by his fathers death and his inability to get revenge against Claudius and on several occasions seriously considers suicide, but always ends up backing out because it is a sin forbidden by God. We first see Hamlet contemplate suicide after Claudius and Getrude ask him to stay in Denmark, rather than return to Wittenburg to resume his studies against his wishes. In Hamlet's first soliloquy, Hamlet clearly wants to commit suicide, and wishes that his, “solid flesh would melt,/Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!” (I. ii. 133-134).
Explain the significance of John Proctors refusal to have the confession nailed to the church door. Do you believe this makes him heroic? John Proctor is a tormented individual. He believes his affair with Abigail irreparably damaged him in the eyes of God, his wife Elizabeth, and himself. True, Proctor did succumb to sin and commit adultery; however, he lacks the capacity to forgive himself.
Number one being that he married his first cousin and after some time he had a baby with her, to me, thats weird. Would anyone he knew look down on him? most likely, so maybe that made him gain too much stress, thinking about what others were saying about him and his wife and cousin and their family. Another strange part of Poe's life would be the fact that most of his close family , including his wife, all got the same disease and they all died from it. Poe knew that his wife was going to die the second he heard that she got the disease , so he was not surprised when she did end up dying.
“Thou poor ghost.” (I, v, 97) Hamlet pities his father, as he was murdered and was not given the chance to pray. This conjures frightening thoughts in his mind, for if he were to be murdered as well, would he be sent to burn in purgatory? Towards the middle of the play, though Hamlet’s thoughts still point towards suicide, he begins to toy with the possibilities of what death could be like. “To die, to sleep; … perchance to dream.” (III, i, 60-65) He may find some comfort in death if death
| Tragedies, Flaws, and Honor | AP Literature and Composition | | | In Shakespeare’s tragic play, Hamlet, the main character, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet caused the prolonged fall of Denmark through his tragic flaw: his inability to act. His inability to avenge his father’s murder caused conflict for Hamlet and everyone around him because as the future leader of Denmark he had to be sane and strong. His emotional soliloquys let the audience feel his frustrations and pains, but they also lead us to conclude that Hamlet had to clear his family name. In Hamlet’s first major soliloquy, Hamlet is emotionally distraught over his father’s death and his mother’s hasty remarriage. These two events cause him to wish that he could just “melt,” and that his “too sullied flesh” could just dissolve itself “into a dew.” He wishes that God’s laws did not forbid “self-slaughter.” He sees the world as “an unweeded garden” that grows to seed, and only produces things “rank and gross in nature.” His thoughts then drift to the source of his emotional pain: it has not yet been two months since his father’s death,
In my opinion, Hamlet is a young man that deeply loves his father and is severely affected by his death. Even though Hamlet has learned the truth of his father’s death by his uncle, he is indecisive. He hesitates and cannot bring himself to kill Claudius. At the right moment in which Hamlet could have murdered Claudius he becomes doubtful. It is because Claudius is speaking his prayers to God and Hamlet is unsure if he should strike in fear that he will be sent to hell.
.“A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?” Hamlet states about himself. A life without trust can lead to self destruction. Hamlet cannot trust his own mother because he believes she married the man who killed his father. He cannot trust his stepfather Claudius because Claudius is the murderer.
He also had a very bad temper and quickly got annoyed that the Pope was trying to overrule him. Henry VIII was also very annoyed at Wolsey his adviser at the time for not being able to get him a divorce so he fired him and had him beheaded but he died on the way to execution. He still didn’t have his divorce and also a new person had come to his attention which was Anne Boleyn who also Henry found attractive and wanted to marry her. So the only way he could do this was for him to make the laws of the church rather than the Pope, he therefore established the Church of England. Also Luther and Calvin had already started a protest in Germany about Catholicism so he decided to use this unhappiness with Catholicism to his advantage and there was now more chance that he would have more of the public on his
Blake also portrays his thoughts through the poem “A little boy lost” from his collection of “songs from experience” (1793). This poem is about a little boy who questions the priest and the priest misjudges the question and is aggressive towards the child, and in the end he kills the innocent boy. This shows the audience how oppression occurs because in those times it was a complete absurd if someone didn’t agree with the church’s religious views. On the other hand, Ariel Dorfman writes in his play about the 20th century, which is the transitional period post dictatorship, located possibly in Chile. He explores in depth human rights violations.