Film noirs in the 1940s and 50s were like no other, filled with intricate plots and alluring characterizations. Characters tend to be vengeful, through brute violence. Stories were told from the point-of-view of the protagonist, in a flashback sequence where the crime has already been committed. Billy Wilder, made some of the greatest Hollywood film noirs, creating some of the most interesting characters in Classical Hollywood cinema, most notable the femme fatale. Billy Wilder, known for his dark film noirs, such as Double Indemnity (1944) and Sunset Boulevard (1950), always featured dangerous women involved in crimes of passion.
Lady Macbeth: The Queen of Deceit The Shakespearian play Macbeth is filled with violence, conflicts, and mysterious environments. Many intriguing and intelligent characters litter the plot, grabbing viewers, or readers’ interests and carrying them into the story. Perhaps the most interesting and deceitful of characters is Lady Macbeth. When Lady Macbeth is first introduced, she is powerful and courageous, but as the plot progresses, readers witness her plummet to a horrifying demise. Throughout the plot, she transforms from a courageous woman, to a rash murderer, and finally leading to a guilt-driven suicide.
In Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, Women’s are vicious, cruelled, unfaithful, disloyal. The betrayal begins of Shahzaman's wife and it ends with Shahrazad’s trying to save women’s of King Shahriyar's kingdom. Shahrazad’s uses these stories to convinced King Shahriyar’s, who thinks his wife is the same as every other woman. Shahrazad’s stories have women are just as spiteful and sneaky as the King Shahzaman’s wife, but they also have women of great integrity and kindness. Shahrazad’s wanted to show King Shahriyar’s that not all women are the same, and she’s also to bring the King back into perspective.
Her actions ultimately lead to the murder of her first husband Camillo, her sexual presence and beauty creating jealousy and envy in the men that meet her. Vittoria is not an innocent character, but she is a product of women’s social limitations in the patriarchal society Webster has chosen to set the play in. Vittoria is undoubtedly the central character of the novel, the events throughout are as a result of her liaison with Brachiano, sparking a journey of murder and treachery. The title of the book ‘The White Devil’ describes Vittoria well, and helps display that she is not an innocent character. Being compared to the devil in a novel set in a heavily catholic country shows that she is evil, and the subtitle ‘The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, With the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan’ supports this.
The next scene where we see evidence that their relationship is not an easy one is in Act 2:4. We also see Elizabeth let her emotions out and how John realises that actually Abigail is a pathetic, manipulative child. The main aspects of making the relationship hard in this scene are the affair and strict Puritan society. Betrayal, love and loyalty all come into play in this scene. Miller creates a situation of irony in this chapter with the arrest of Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor.
Lady Macbeth commits suicide from the guilt of persuading her husband to murder the king, and Macbeth himself eventually perishes at the hands of Macduff, a man whose family had fallen victim to murderers after he had fled to England. In this play, Macbeth’s descent into madness is set into motion by the ambitions of his wife. It is Lady Macbeth who first persuades
He hints that maybe his mother is associated with his father’s murder. His madness and anger that are the products of Gertrude’s activities make him act without thinking beforehand. Ophelia commits suicide following the news of her father’s murder. Laertes and Claudius plan Hamlet’s annihilation which ends in a tragic mess with the deaths of Queen Gertrude, Hamlet, Laertes, Guildenstern, Rosencrantz, and King Claudius. So, now, the Queen, King, and Price of Denmark are all murdered all because of
He has directed more than fifty films. Among his popular titles are The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), and Psycho (1960). Actors: Anthony Perkins acts as Norman Bates, the mentally unstable antagonistic murderer who forms a second personality in the form of his diseased mother. Anthony Perkins who often charmed people with adorable awkwardness was forever marked for playing the murderer in Psycho. His other films include The Trial (1962), Fear Strikes Out (1957), Tall Story (1960), The Matchmaker (1958), Pretty Poison (1968), and The Black Hole (1979).
Harper Amaty Pitt starts off as Joe’s valium-addicted, sociopathic wife. A deranged sociopath that is sex-deprived and out of touch with the external world and reality in general, she recoils into her mental delusions and drug abuse. With the assistance of some of her companions and mother-in-law, she manages to liberate herself from her plummeting matrimony. Her desperation to be noticed and have emboldening contact with other human beings and conversation leads her to seek an affiliation just slightly better than what her marriage offers her. This is why she turns to
Hilary views her sister as being the cruel one for saying such a sarcastic remark. Jackie views her sister as being cruel for thinking that she is better than her because she is getting married. The events that lead up to Kiffer and Jackie having sex are very different