Where does responsibility lie for the deaths in Romeo and Juliet? A total of six characters died in the play Romeo and Juliet for many different reasons. The main characters died by committing suicide, Mercutio, Tybalt and Paris were killed and Lady Montague died out of sadness. Although they died by the hands of different people, the feud between the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, the immaturity of the characters, the pride of Tybalt and the system of marriage at that time are responsible for the deaths in Romeo and Juliet. To begin with, the battle between the Montague’s and Capulet’s caused the death of Mercutio and Tybalt.
A tragic hero refers to the nature or character of a person. Their characteristics may include having a tragic flaw, falling from a great height in society, and most importantly meeting a death, which causes the reader to ache for this character. There are many ways in which John Proctor of The Crucible by Arthur Miller may be considered a tragic hero. Some of these ways include that he realized all his mistakes and confessed all his sins. Another characteristic that makes John Proctor a tragic hero is his tragic flaw and his final tragic death.
He was said to be too unfit to stand trial because of his mental state. He told police he dug up the women and killed the owner because he was in a haze. In 1968 Ed’s doctor determined he was insane enough to stand trial on November 14 1968 he went on trial for the murders. The trial lasted a week and he was found guilty of first degree murder by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital where he died of respiratory failure, cardiovascular disease. As awful as Ed Gein was, some look at him at as a hero.
Michael survived aside from missing fingers he was able to arrive home. "Michael Holtzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live" The Book Thief (503). On July 24th, 6:03 A.M. Michael commited suicide as he was to overwhelmed with guilt. His constant bleeding symbolized that the remorse of living in the cruel time period and the loss of his brother is causing a strain and slowly killing him.
Both Their Wives Committed Suicide: Both Stalin and Macbeth’s wives commit suicide due to the stress they retained due to their husbands position and actions. This slowly led to Stalin’s mental break down (Page 5 in the unknown Stalin) Lady Macbeth's death touches Macbeth in the only remaining vulnerable point he has They were at the head of a totalitarian society and had absolute, unquestionable authority over an entire nation. Held absolute power were corrupted by it to the point where their corruption destroyed the lives of millions of innocent people by being selfish and self-centered. The use of a scapegoat: -One of the major indications of a totalitarian state is the use of a scapegoat to unite the people against a common enemy. In the USSR, this enemy was
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath.” (5.3.219-220). By the end of the play, both the Capulet and Montague families are left grief stricken in the gloom of their deceased loved ones. Lord Montague is left to grieve alone because of the death of his wife and the suicide of his son and Lord and Lady Capulet are mourning over the loss of their only daughter. Romeo’s impulsiveness not only killed a bunch of people but also left many of their loved ones to suffer from their
During the ball a masked person appears and he portrays a frightening corpse who died of the Red Death. Prince Prospero is infuriated and demands the guards to arrest him. They are all to shocked and afraid to do so. So Prince Prospero goes for him only to be killed, along with the others who participated in the ball, by the Red Death. In this story there are objects that symbolize death coming.
The first to commit suicide is Antigone shortly after she is thrown in an entrapment of stones and boulders. As soon as this fatal news reaches Haimons’s ears, he also kills himself. As if that wasn’t bad enough, even Queen Eurydice commits suicide in suffocating grief of her son’s death. In punishment of not facing his mistakes, Creon lost son, his Queen, and all respect from his people. These loses know how to bring great regret and guilt to Creon.
Creon’s hubris throughout the play influences not only Creon but everyone around him. His arrogance and selfishness leads to the death of Antigone. The reader is astonished when the messenger declares that “[Antigone] made a noose of her fine linen veil and hanged herself” (840). When her fiancé finds her, he pledges his love for her by plunging a sword into his chest. At the discovery of the death of her son, Eurydice confines herself to her room; only to also be found dead soon after.
You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway.” Finally, the way he died was the most tragic, because that was when the true savages came out, as they “...screamed, struck, bit, tore.” This was the turning point at where the boys truly came out as savages, by the horrific and brutal death of Simon. In the novel, Simon represents a christ-like figure to society, and in his passing, the island lost that form of hope and sympathy he provided. This means that the society, in the time frame that William Golding was referring to as he wrote this allegory, lost its form of hope,