The play’s main protagonist Hamlet lets his grief over his father’s murder fuel his thirst for revenge, Ophelia lets the grief over the murder of her father Polonius drive her to apparent suicide, and Ophelia’s brother Laertes is pushed to conspire with Claudius to kill Hamlet as a result of his grief. Grief might as well be its own character in Hamlet because if it was it would always be center stage. The grief present in Hamlet comes in many different shapes and forms. Even for life today, until people learn how to deal with grief it will become an inherent part of a person’s character. It is interesting to note how Shakespeare portrays his male and female characters ability to handle grief.
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 the Browning poems ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘The Laboratory’ all these lover face multitude of emotions: obsession, lust, power, status and jealousy. Throughout Romeo and Juliet and the Robert Browning poetry there is also violence but for many different reasons; murder and death also play a significant role in each text. Right at the start of Romeo and Juliet you get a sense that fate and destiny play a key part in the overall outcome. In the prologue it states ‘two star cross’d lovers take their life’ This shows that their paths are already entwined and that there future has been written. In the Elizabethan time period people strongly believed in superstition, fate, destiny and the wheel of fortune.
Act 2 Scene 2 Essay Act 2 Scene 2 starts after Macbeth speaks a soliloquy about the terrible deed he is going to do. The soliloquy he speaks portrays his fear of killing Duncan, his fear that he will be caught in the act of murder and the supernatural theme running throughout his soliloquy. At the start, Macbeth sees a vision, a ‘dagger which I see before me’ which evidently shows that he is thinking about the murder he is about to commit. The reader can interpret this vision very differently, by saying that Macbeth is going mad from fear and it is ‘a dagger of the mind, a false creation’ before him, which creates a sense of panic and curiosity, as the reader is not sure whether he is stable enough to go through with the murder. The other interpretation is that something supernatural and scary is at work, that the dagger is a sign from the witches Macbeth spoke to.
Just as heredity is formed in society today, that same effect takes place in the epic poem Beowulf. Mindful of Grendel and his Mother’s behavior, the unknown author portrays and demonstrates their evil in “The Battle with Grendel” and “Grendel’s Mother” --- as pointed out by both Grendel and his Mother’s compulsion to kill, insidiousness towards others, and fetish for human flesh --- allaying the astounding thought that killers such as Grendel and his Mother are affectionate individuals.
This story of a man who has, out of jealousy and insecurity, disposed of his wife, most likely by murder, is chillingly told by Browning through the voice of the murderer himself in a dramatic monologue. Throughout, Browning turns the speaker’s words against himself: the apparently all-powerful narrator loses control of his narrative, just as he lost control of his wife, and must kill his story in order to continue in his plans to gain another wife. Browning sets this story in Renaissance Italy, specifically in Ferrara, which is named in the poem’s subtitle. The specific time-period is not named, but the names of the artists mentioned in the poem recall famous painters such as Fra Angelico and Fra Lippo Lippi, who lived in the quattro – and cinquecento in Italy. This period is renowned not only for the flourishing of artistic talent and the production of beautiful works of art (often of surprising verisimilitude) but also for violence, intrigue and murder: indeed, Ferrara itself, seat of the d’Este family, was a byword for fabulous displays of artistic and architectural taste alongside appalling brutality.
With no real purpose but to be mindlessly massacred. Through personification, the guns responsible for taking so much human life are made out to be monstrous, even evil. The poem also likens their deaths to a funeral, but one where the bells are shots, and the mourning choirs are the army's bugles. The drawing down of the blinds, the traditional sign to show that the family is in mourning, has been likened to the drawing of a sheet to cover the dead. Through various literary techniques, Wilfred Owen enhances the meaning of the poem.
In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the theme of corruption to metaphorically represent the deterioration of each Character’s physiological well being and state of mind when exposed to corruption that ends in death. The theme of corruption plays a role by instating the traits of death and mortality within each of the characters, both by choice and from exterior occurrences. Through the portrayal of Hamlet, a man who is obsessed with death, Shakespeare uses this obsession to explore both Hamlet's desire for revenge and his need for certainty when corruption disrupts the natural balance of order in his kingdom. In the process, Hamlet explores the many hardships that are bestowed upon him in order to reflect on the many characteristics that are associated with the exposure to corruption which lead to mortality. Hamlet becomes obsessed with the idea of death within the play, and as the story unfolds further, he begins to analyze death from multiple perspectives than ever before.
Macbeth is a play that gives insight on the evil and darkness of a person being. This play shows how a man changes his very conscience and goes against his very morals which in the end destroys everything he has, even the relationship of his beloved wife Lady Macbeth. The being of the story they have a very close and intimate relationship but as the play progresses their relationship vanishes till it is like it was never there. The very first sign we have of how lord and Lady Macbeth relationship is when Lord Macbeth sends her a letter in which he tells her everything that the witches have said about how he will be king and how they said he would be thane of Cawdor and he became it. He also says in his letter “Lady Macbeth “This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou might’st not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant off what greatness is promised thee.”(1.5.9-12) He gives her created for everything that it about to happen to him and he wants to share with her the power and riches that come with all that will happen to him and her.
All the irony in the tale alludes to the idea of an insane narrator. The writer also provides a number of instances where symbolism is used to emphasize the theme. The heart in the first place symbolizes the narrator’s strong guilt of the crimes he committed. He seemed to hear the heart of the old man beat after he had murdered him beat. This was because of the guilt of murdering the man and the fear of being caught.