49). Macbeth knows the ethics behind the murder of the King, and he knows that not only is his conscience going to suffer, but should he get caught he would lose everything. His family’s honor, his title as thane, everything he had worked so hard to accomplish gone blank at the instant his hand in the crime would be revealed. “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires” (I. iv. 57-58).
As Iago ends Act 1 with his soliloquy, we become sure that dishonesty is one of his most revered qualities. People may be good or bad or right or wrong, but we’re all just individuals made up of different parts. Some parts unique, but some are evidence of our inherent idiosyncrasy, proof that we’re all citizens of the world. Being maniacally brilliant, Iago lies to and manipulates the characters in Othello with hardly a second thought. He’s remarkably cunning at how he gets where he wants to go.
Being Hyde delighted him for he had full control to do whatever he wants. Since Hyde is evil, his intentions are pure evil too. His crime such as the murder of Sir Danver Carew proves that pure evil delights him. Another crime was he almost beat a girl to death. The intentions of Dr. Jekyll to be pure evil was his own idea.
The Night of the Long Knives was the name Hitler gave to his purge of the SA. Hitler found out about a conspiracy to have him removed because the SA had the power to remove him. So with that Knowledge he called for a meeting and there he arrested the leader Ernst Roehm and also arrested 200 other senior officers. Many were shot as they were captured and in the end he also had Roehm killed. He made sure the next leader for them was weak so in the end they lost their power.
Julius Caesar dismissed the multiple warnings to beware the Ides of March. Consequently, a group of conspirators sent daggers through the body of the ancient Roman leader. All these conspirators conspired and executed their plan due to selfish and jealous motives, excluding the play’s tragic hero. In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Brutus fulfills the role of the tragic hero because he possesses qualities of a good person, and he has a sense of commitment. Through words and actions William Shakespeare paints the picture that Brutus is a virtuous individual who believes in and stands by certain moral traits.
Daisy’s inability to be honest to the man she claimed to love, and Tom’s stride to be powerful and in control led to the slaughter of three innocent people who got tied up in a game of wealth and competence. Agreeing with the description made by Nick Carraway towards Tom and Daisy Buchannan, they both “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or what ever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had
There were many stories alike. Whether they were true or not, we don't know - but Cromwell believed them. He was a puritan and he believed it was his duty to punish the Catholics, hence going to Ireland. When Catholics refused to surrender to Cromwell, he ordered his Soldiers to kill all of them with the words "Show them no quarter". Hundreds hid in a church, but Cromwell ordered it to be set alight - many were burnt alive, and all local priests were killed.
In these next paragraphs you will be persuaded that this message underlying in the Odyssey is a good message or lesson. Initially, Odysseus uses his brain cunningly, and he doesn’t have to work as hard to get his ending outcome. For example, at the end of the book on page 1158 he basically tells everybody that he is Odysseus, and he has everybody trapped in a room, and he has weapons to kill them. After that point Odysseus easily disposes with all of the suitors, making his work load diminutive. If Odysseus, disguised as the beggar, had outright marched into his home, and tried to kill everyone it would have been much harder seeing as everybody else would have been cautious of a strange man entering the house versus Odysseus working hard to make sure the suitors believed they had nothing to worry about before he massacred them.
Because of this, he decides he must kill Banquo, so that there will be no heir. “Macbeth plots the murder of Banquo, out of jealousy and insecurity.” (Hompi 1) This is obviously an absurd idea, and prior to Macbeth’s murder of King Duncan he never would have considered it as a solution. Shakespeare uses this to show how power corrupts even the best of people. It is obvious that this is still a problem in society today, as people start off with good intentions but slowly get sidetracked. Before long, their objectives have changed completely.
The second line refers to Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Plot (referenced also in other lines of the poem), where an attempt was made to blow up the Parliament building in honor of anarchy. The attempt, like Kurtz’s life, ended up fruitless—the plot was exposed and the conspirators executed. Both these allusions give references hinting at the poem’s theme even before the actual material of the poem itself is presented. Kurtz and Fawkes alike are famous for their ultimately failing grand plots they worked so hard for. Reminiscent of Kurtz’s last words (“The horror!