He pretends to be crazy and fools everyone. He does this to anger is step dad-uncle. In Sweeney Todd, Sweeney renames himself to be Sweeney Todd, from Benjamin Barker. Benjamin is sent away, and is forced to leave his daughter and wife. But he comes back as Sweeney Todd wanting to seek vengeance on the man who sent him away from his family.
After King Hamlet's death, Laertes, along with Prince Hamlet return to Denmark for the funeral services. This is the first sign that Laertes will become a foil to Hamlet in the play. Hamlet is devastated but he only mopes around whereas when Laertes father Polonius is murdered he vows for revenge “to the blackest Devil!”(4.5.215) He thinks through his emotions, not with his brain like Hamlet. When Hamlet is trying to solve if Claudius killed his father he uses Gertrude asking, “I know not: is it the King?”(3.4.123) Spying through someone else is typical Hamlet not only keeping his feeling hush but also avoiding a confrontation with the king before he knows for sure if he killed his father. When Ophelia dies Laertes is Distraught and isn’t afraid to show this whereas Hamlet loved her but his lack emotion left him without a connection to her at the end of the play.
In this journey Everyman finds that not one of his friends are willing to stick with him to the end. He discovers that many will promise to stand by him and make this journey but in the end only one will honor his promise and complete the journey. All betray Everyman during his journey to his death one by one in succession. At the time of death Everyman is left with only his good deeds. The point that the author tries to get across is that Everyman is You.
His sonnets were made to be passionate and patriotic and to show hope and rid the fear of future soldiers. The first sonnet is ‘Peace’, already from the title it is focusing on a positive message. Messages and tones that glorify the war and the deaths, focusing on the implementation that death in war is a glorious moment and that it should not be feared. Death was silenced and only the brighter side of war was shown to the public so nobody would be afraid. His use of patriotism, honour and enthusiasm gives across a positive tone to the poem.
The poem is also written in a rather rigid iambic pentameter. The Volunteer is typical to that of Rupert Brooke’s poems for example The Soldier is also a patriotic poem; it describes that of an idealistic England which the men of our country should preserve by fighting in the war, this is shown in the chosen language such as “English heaven” “Peace” and “gentleness”. And death is described as the ultimate sacrifice and joy for your country just like in The Volunteer. The Soldier also has the simple message of sacrifice and patriotism for example England and Englishmen is mentioned six times throughout the poem which continually reinforces this message by using repetition. The fact that the poem is written in a sonnet form also reinforces the message of patriotism because a sonnet represents a love poem and The Soldier is about a love of your country again like The Volunteer.
How does Browning tell the story of parts III and IV of The Pied Piper of Hamelin? Overall in these two parts the people attack the Corporation; the Mayor shows he has no idea what to do, and the Piper knocks at the door. The focus of the story is clearly the conflict between the townspeople and their government – between people and authority. Browning seems concerned with characterisation in particular here; he presents the Mayor and the Corporation as greedy, self-interested fool, using satire. There are comical uses of rhyme: people corporation drawn up in opposition to each other- a “body” versus a “noddy”, “flocking” to see something “shocking” The form of the ballad creates a sense of this as an old story, told over the years, and one with a point or moral behind it.
The second time he was underestimated was in May of the same year. When Lenin’s wife brought forward his last will and testament. Lenin’s will reflected very poorly on Stalin and had it been released his career would have ended there and then, but Zinoviev and Kamenev also came out badly as Lenin talked of their reluctance bring about the revolution. So they to fought desperately for it to be kept quiet. This was Trotsky’s chance to remove three possible candidates but he doesn’t take it because he doesn’t see any of them as any kind of a threat so once again Stalin was able to continue his rise to power unhalted by Trotsky.
Oedipus saves the citizens from the totalitarian rule of the Sphinx, by solving the difficult and complicated riddle. Then again, near the conclusion of the play, Oedipus shows courage and self-sacrifice for the benefit of his people. He gouges out his own eyes and exiles himself from Thebes to save his people from the devastating plague. All this is evidence of Oedipus’ abundance of integrity and overall heroic qualities, in turn exhibiting his morality, virtue, and nobility. Oedipus is undoubtedly a righteous hero.
In John Dryden’s poem ‘Palamon and Arcite’ we are introduced to the character of Theseus. He is portrayed as the archetypal hero, strong, brave and skilful. Dryden exclaims ‘Force he conqur’d,then by Love’ this quotation show the audience that Theseus was a man who was not only very courageous for taking over a country, but admirable for not abusing the power that he received. Instead a woman from the country that he had taken over fell in love with it despite that. This reinforces the belief that he was not a crude leader, but in fact are very likable one with a lovable
However, the habitual acceptance of the lottery has made ritual homicide a part of the community lore. When murmurs about change begin to drift through the town, the superstitious voice of Old Man Warner makes the townspeople fear that their whole way of life would fall apart without this grisly drawing. The random elements of society violence also appear as a theme in "The Lottery." There is no reason for Tessie Hutchinson to die other than that she happened to draw the wrong slip of paper. However, once that took place, she stopped being a member of the community.