A tragic hero will effectively gain our fear and pity if he is a good mixture of good and evil. Ophelia can be viewed as a tragic hero in this play. We first meet Ophelia in Act 1, Scene 3 where she is warned by her brother Laertes that Hamlet is playing with her and that she should not keep her "chaste treasure open" suggesting that his sister has no 'worth of her own except in her sex'. Ophelia hears her brother but sticks up for herself and defends her relationship with Hamlet. She even turns Laertes' lesson around to focus on him and how he is doing exactly what he is telling Ophelia not to do.
• Name the two feuding families.The Montagues and the Capulets. • Who is Escalus and what is his power over the two families? He is the prince of all Verona. • How does Benvolio propose to change Romeo’s melancholy mood at beginning of play? He tells him to look at other women.
This idea is reinforced through the alliterated words ‘whinge and wine’. She scorns him by addressing with the words ‘grim’ and ‘swine’. The first stanza culminates with the expression of his ‘loyalty’ towards his wife and children, which prevents him from having the affair. Sophie makes a parody of ‘loyalty’ by making us reflect on the fact, how can a person be loyal when he has made up his mind to commit adultery. There is a caesura used with the word ‘fine’, to bring an appreciation on the man by the persona for his commitment towards his wife and children.
In “Hamlet,” Ophelia’s introduction to the audience provides the foundation for her role throughout the rest of the play. This is in Act I, scene iii, when she is receiving the advice of her brother, Laertes, and her father, Polonius. In the case with Laertes, he cautions Ophelia against falling in love with Hamlet, who is, according to Laertes, too far above her by birth to be able to love her honorably. Since Hamlet is responsible not only for his own feelings but for his position in the state, it may be impossible for him to marry her. At this point, this is just simple advice.
The marriage would go ahead regardless of whether the women loved the man that their father arranged for them to marry. This is the case of what’s going on between Hermia and her father, Egeus. Hermia is smitten with her true love, Lysander, but her father has arranged a marriage between her and Demetrius. Hermia doesn’t love Demetrius in the slightest and is often rude, she describes her treatment of Demetrius in Act 1, Scene 1, lines 194 and 196. “I frown upon him; yet he loves me still…I give him curses; yet he gives me love.” The contrast in her conversations between Demetrius and herself as opposed to her conversations with Lysander is remarkable.
Juliet acts impulsively when she meets Romeo. “O Romeo, Romeo! Where fore thou art Romeo” (II.ii.33). Juliet wonders why Romeo had to be a Montague. The feud between the two families keeps the star-crossed lovers from being with each other.
Analyse how the writer develops an important idea in the text. The play “Othello”, by William Shakespeare explores the idea of how an individual’s sense of identity and how this can be manipulated affects their actions. Othello is an outsider in 17th century Venice, and how he regards himself affects his actions strongly throughout this play. We can see this from Othello’s confidence and assertiveness at the start, but as Iago starts scheming and spreading rumours of his wife’s infidelity, Othello’s insecurities start to show, leading to the climax of the story where he murders Desdemona and plots to kill Cassio. From this we can see the effects of what happens when a society tells a man over and over again that he is less than human and uncivilised because of his skin colour.
In the tragic play, Othello, William Shakespeare uses foils to explores how jealousy, manipulation, and pride lead to suffering. Though he is a racial and cultural outsider of Venice being of Moorish decent, Othello has gained the respect of many by following the faith of Christianity, being the general of the Venetian Military, and expressing his true love for Desdemona; the beautiful daughter of the admired senator, Brabantio. However on the wedding night of Othello and Desdemona, there is a disturbance in the airs of good intentions; it is Iago, the pathological lying, deceiving, racist, sexist, thieving, murderous antagonist in the play that destroys the lives of many for his oath of revenge against Othello. He has been passed over as
Polonius effectively demonstrates notions of corruption throughout the play. As Polonius himself is corrupt and false he cannot think of others as genuine. In Act 1, Scene 3, Polonius interferes with his daughter’s relationship with Hamlet - doubt’s Hamlet’s integrity, sincerity and affection for Ophelia, “Do not believe his vows” Polonius elucidates his corruption and falsity at the very beginning of Act 2, when he gives Reynaldo money to spy on his own son Laertes’ behaviour in Paris, through devious and indirect methods such as lies, “Inquire... and there put on him what forgeries you please”. Shakespeare’s examination of corruption through the interaction and relationships apparent between Hamlet and Gertrude,
Summary of the Acts: Act one: William Shakespeare’s play Othello in scene one starts off in the streets of Venice where wealthy Roderigo and Iago are arguing. Roderigo has been paying Iago to help him win Desdemona’s hand, and he has just learned that Desdemona has married Othello, a general whom Iago serves as an ancient. Iago tells Roderigo that he hates Othello too; the reasoning for this is Othello promoting Michael Cassio to the post of lieutenant, instead of Iago. The two men come to the street outside the house of Desdemona’s dad, Brabantio, and yell that he has been robbed. Brabantio, who is a Senator, comes to the window.