Hero’s own father says “Death is the fairest cover for her shame” (IV i 122). He would rather see her dead than to have a daughter without honor. But Beatrice does not wish or hope for death on her cousin. She wants revenge on the man who took away Hero’s honor. Beatrice asks Benedick to kill Claudio for her.
His moral and social prestige and contrasting roles as a reverend minister and adulterer give him a rare chance to play a rarely seen type of character. Dimmesdale’s moral ambiguity comes from his lack of courage to be the right person and to do the right thing. Dimmesdale is devastated, from a character standpoint, by his role in impregnation and thus adultery with Hester Prynne. He is terribly afraid of the public finding out about his role in all of this in fear that, in learn that their beloved minister has fallen into sin, they too will fall and never see the gates of Heaven. In a grand demonstration of his cowardice he says, "Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life.
They say, “Love can be dangerous in the wrong hands.” In the poem, “My Last Duchess”, that statement is a fact. All that the woman ever did was smiled at the things that made her happy, but her husband felt as if she gave him the same attention as she would a stranger. He wanted to feel special and since she could not give him that extra attention that was needed, he decided to have her killed. He also took upon himself to tell the father of his new wife, what had happened to his last wife. He basically was informing the father that if his daughter does the same as his last wife then she would be killed as well.
The following will be discussed: the puritanical society; the factors that make Procter an individual; the choices Procter makes and finally the possibility of seeing him in a positive or negative light. The puritan society was a theocratic community in which religions leaders were the leading men of the community. It was a judgemental society in which all forms of fun such as dancing and singing were forbidden. Puritans were obsessed with sin and damnation. They feared the devil and encouraged prying into the lives of their neighbours.
This makes the audience think that helping other people is good and that being selfish makes you look bad so that’s why they shouldn’t be selfish and help other people. Priestly wants to make them change and realise that this is wrong. J.B Priestley uses the character Mr Birling to illustrate the treatment of the lower class people in Nineteenth Century. He highlights this through Mr Birling where we learn that Mr Birling doesn’t care about the lower class people and the workers in his factory. Mr Birling says: “Have you got any idea what happened to her after that?
The Devil which is a parallel to money is a motif so people such that in Tom's position, will borrow money from him. The Devil has essentially converted Tom into his spawn, as he is doing the same thing the Devil once did to him. The greed and money ultimately resulted in his death, and Tom's userer subjects led the end of their lives because of the debt they had to pay. The subjects indulged in the thought of free money, easily accessible money, ruining their lives, which is what the 'Devil' quiescently did to Tom Walker. This quote portrays the greed contained in people, "He was on the point of foreclosing a mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an unlucky land-speculator for whom he had professed the greatest friendship."
One of the Puritan ladies in the crowd suggests that Hestor has “brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there no law for it? Truly there is, both in scripture and statute book.” The Puritans wish further torture on Hestor, even though they themselves too have committed similar crimes. But in looking for a reason to bring more harm to Hestor, they break a commandment worse than Hestor’s; using the Lord’s name in vain. Just for their own satisfaction they look to manipulate the writings of their
[Minister:]'You don't deserve to eat. "(7) This shows the hypocrisy of religion. Although the minister had just been telling others to help the less fortunate, he himself doesn’t abide to his words. Furthermore, Cunegonde's money is stolen by a religious friar: " Reverend Grey Friar, who …came into our room twice, and he set out upon his journey long before us." (21) It is evident that he stole from Cunegonde because he left before they noticed, an act usually done by the guilty.
This statement is backed up by his blatant lack of care about the fates of the innocent people who get dragged into his revenge plot. Take Desdemona for example, a pure and faithful companion, killed by the man that loved her dearly, just to bring satisfaction to Iago. Another pawn in Iago’s revenge attack is Cassio: ‘If I can fasten but one cup upon him, with that which he hath drunk to-night already, he'll be as full of quarrel and offence as my young mistress' dog’. Iago schemes to get Cassio drunk because he knows Cassio will end up getting into a fight. Because he wants Cassio to get in trouble with Othello so that Desdemona will try to intervene on Cassio's behalf, which will make Othello
Othello Who a person decides to trust can make a big impact on their life, whether it be a good or bad one. Only when someone keeps believing lies that they think to be the truth, this can destroy everything that they once used to love. William Shakespeare shows us the tragedy that befalls on a man when he trust's the wrong man through the use of irony and symbolism in the play Othello. In his article over Othello Charles Boyce describes the play as "a domestic comedy gone wrong. "Boyce talks of the jealousy and hate that drives Iago to deceive the moor to "show how a noble man can lose faith and go in a frenzy caused by the loss of trust."