Electra fights with her mother, Clytemnestra, and her mother’s lover, Aegisthus, because she feels betrayed by them as they killed her father. When Electra and Orestes are finally reunited, they plot against their fathers killers, and finally kill them. The play has several themes, such as vengeance and deception which are extenuated by the heightened realism style of the play. In Electra’s introductory speech, I would emphasises her agony of her father’s death, as this is the main reason the character is vengeful. To fit with the heightened realism of the play, I would exaggerate the mental pain that the character is going through by associating some lines with physical pain, such as ‘But my mother, and her bed mate Aegisthus, Split open his head with a murderous axe’.
In the play, Euripides has described Medea as a woman who “wild with love”. Everyone can see easily that with Medea, the love with Jason is the most important to her as she could kill her own brother, betrayed her father and her country to help Jason get the Golden Fleece. “I willingly deceived my father; left my home; …” “You had already murdered your brother at his own hearth…” Because of Jason, Medea - from a princess – had to drift to another place which is not belonging to her. Her family, her friends will never forgive for that, Medea doesn’t even have the way to turn back to her home anymore. “My friends at home now hate me…” Medea even earned more enemies when helping Jason.
They conclude that Medea is guilty and needs to be punished. Her intent is to see Jason suffer; therefore killing his father in law, wife, and two children. Nevertheless, he is obviously grieving these sorrows cast upon him. Medea’s wish is fulfilled, however it has cost her own family. This woman sacrifices her loved ones for revenge and hatred.
When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed. Talking to Danforth, Proctors says “I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweet. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it; I set myself entirely in your hands” (page 49 act three) confessing to the crime he did. He realizes what he did was wrong which was why he tried to hide it for so long. But the only way for
The causes of her death was the buildup of guilt in her. In this quote Lady Macbeth was trying to wash off her guilt by using the word blood in comparison. She feels remorseful for her husband sin. They have killed many innocent people to cover up their past faults. Thus this was what she meant by not even the perfume of Arabia can cover up her guilty sin.
Antigone for Pot! Throughout history many activists have broken unjust laws. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” In the Greek tragedy Antigone written by Sophocles, Antigone breaks an unjust law saying not to bury her dead brother’s body, enforced by King Creon. Antigone felt compelled to break the law because she believed every human being deserved to have a proper burial. For breaking the law Antigone was locked up in a prison till death.
Lady Macbeth simply implies that if Macbeth goes through with killing Duncan than he will become a man again.| What beast was't, then,That made you break this enterprise to me? [->0]When you durst do it, then you were a man;And, to be more than what you were, you wouldBe so much more the man[->1]| Interactions| Lady Macbeth is going through with the plan and she is trying to frame Duncan and make him look guilty in the process.| Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the deadAre but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhoodThat fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal,For it must seem their guilt[->2]| Macbeth |Observations|Text Support| Looks| Macbeth has a conscious and he knows that karma is real.| Bloody instructions, which being taught, returnTo plague the inventor[->3]| Actions| Lady Macbeth has persuaded Macbeth to kill Duncan and Macbeth is ashamed of what he has done.| I'll go no more:I am afraid to think what I have
by the famous tragic play write Sophocles. The play is about a woman who fights against her government to bury her deceased brother after it has been ordered by the king that the body shall rot and not be buried. Knowing the severe consequences she buries him and faces serious punishment for her actions of disobedience. By simply looking at the very brief summaries of the two works it is clear that there is a relative theme between the two. Daniel Ellsberg, “the most dangerous man in America” is much like the character Antigone .
She asks’ her sister Ismene to help her give him the burial he deserves. Creon the king of Thebes made sure that if anyone was to bury Polynieces was going to be stoned to death. He felt as if he was a “traitor” to Creon who killed his own brother in a civil war. Antigone was caught in the act of burring Polynieces by the sentry, now she is sentenced to be buried and killed. Antigone and Rosa Parks have a different encounter with the law and how they are punished for what they have done.
I say this because just like in The Hunger Games, with how the Capitol is convinced that their actions are justified, Medea has herself convinced that her act of filicide is completely justified. Her mentality is that of revenge. She believes that because her husband Jason has broken his oath to her, it gives her the justification for committing a mass murder. To exact revenge upon Jason she decides that she is going to murder his soon to be bride, the bride’s father, and at last her two children. In the book, after Medea talks about what she will do to the princess she tells the chorus “ I will kill the children—my children.