Your king was murdered – royal blood! What stopped you from tracking down the killer then and there?” (lines 145-147). This is when Oedipus takes it upon himself to track down the killer in order to appease the gods. He declares “No, I’ll start again – I’ll bring it all to light myself!” (lines 149-150). This is important because it is what eventually leads to Oedipus to discover the horrible fact about the murder of Laius.
This makes Oedipus doubt himself and he decides to find out the truth about the killer of Liaus. In doing so he tells his people “Or if any man’s conscience is guilty, let him give himself up. He will suffer the less. His fate will be nothing worse than banishment. No other harm will touch him.” Ironically he condemned himself unknowingly.
Hamlet makes sure his uncle is guilty of murder before enacting his revenge. Hamlet is not insane because; He tells people that he will pretend to be, He makes a lot of sense even when he is supposedly crazy, and He acts insane at highly convenient times. Hamlet tells his friends that he will pretend to be crazy. He says to Horatio and Marcellus: Here as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd soe’er I bear myself, As I perchance shall think meet To put an antic disposition on, (I, V, 171-173). In this quote Hamlet tells them that no matter how strange he is acting, they should not be alarmed because he is going to feign insanity.
Towards the beginning of the tragic story King Duncan is passing the throne onto his son and this angers Macbeth and he is contemplating murder. “Let not light see my black and deep desires; / The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be” (1.4. 51-52) This tells us that Macbeth believes his eye will be blind to the murder. After this line, readers can foreshadow the evilness that lurks within Macbeth. He has no problem murdering the king.
“For whoever killed Laius might decide to raise his hand against me. So, acting on behalf of Laius, I benefit myself, too”(Sophocles 10). The intended meaning is that Oedipus wants to find the murderer of Laius not only to save Thebes, but incase the murderer decides to kill Oedipus since he is king as he did Laius when he was king. The unintended meaning is that Oedipus himself is the murderer so he is trying to protect himself from himself, which ultimately fails because he pierces his own eyes. “I shall make a proclamation, speaking as one who has no connection with this affair, nor with the murderer”(Sophocles 14).
Now it’s ironic how they were great friends and companions towards each other, however Macbeth is the one who ultimately kills Banquo without even laying a finger on him. Macbeth’s guilt from Duncan’s murder carried on in Macbeth’s life, as he was too scared to fight off this darkness. Now Macbeth was faced with a decision whether or not to murder Banquo to keep his royal prophecies true. With the help of his gang, the decision was clear enough for him not to pass. Instead of Macbeth directly killing Banquo, Macbeth hired his gang members to act out this murder.
He says that Haemon’s life will be the payment to Creon’s debts to the Gods and that Creon has now gone beyond forgiveness. When Teiresias is led away by his acolyte the chorus reminds Creon that no one has ever known Teiresias’ prophecies to be false and Creon finally realizes he needs to undo what he has done but it is too late. Creon’s failure does not go unnoticed by the Gods and he is punished for the bad decisions he has made. Throughout the play, Creon’s failures cause much calamity. Though at the time of the bad decisions, Creon believes he was doing what is best for Thebes, his stubbornness and pride prevents him from being a good leader.
In this essay, I am going to explain how Shakespeare manages to sympathize with these protagonists. During the play of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare manages to effectively describe the tragedy of their relationship. He achieves this by creating sympathy for the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, which consequently affects the audience of the play. At the beginning of the play the audience is told that it will all end in disaster. This is emphasised with the fact that the two young lovers foreshadow their own death.
He uses the prologue to immediately set the background as a priest announces that blight has fallen upon the land and that the purpose is to determine the cause of this plague. Oedipus has already solved the last plague with his super intelligence, “I am Oedipus the world knows my fame” (line and lets all the citizens know he has sent Creon to the oracle which was his brother in law. Creon returns to reveal the plague won’t end until the murderer You must Login to view the entire essay. If you are not a member yet, Sign Up for free! of King Laius is driven from the land.
Hamlet first learns from the ghost of his father that his death was actually a murder . Even though he swears to avenge his father, indecision overcomes Hamlet and he has to test the king’s sincerity. When the king’s true ambition is revealed to Hamlet, he affirms his choice to take violent action against the king. However, Hamlet would only kill the king once he caught him in the act of doing something villainous. At the end of the play, Hamlet learns that the king was to blame for poisoning the blade.