We are immediately faced with a pessimistic representation of human nature in The Tempest in Act 1 Scene 2 through the character of Caliban and his actions in regards to Miranda, the protagonist’s (Prospero) daughter. Prospero alludes to Caliban attempting to rape his daughter as he says "...I have used thee, / Filth as thou art, with human care and lodged thee / In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate /The honour of my child." For Shakespeare to almost open the play with such a savage representation of Caliban allows us to interpret that he is going to explore the extent to which freedom within human nature can often lead to abhorrent actions. However, we must consider that we only have Prospero’s account for the said occurrence and it is evident that Prospero arguably loathes Caliban, Regarding him as a "beast" and a "poisonous slave, and so it’s possible that the things he says about him are not necessarily wholly true. Despite this, we must consider that Prospero and Miranda initially took on the role of caring and educating Caliban in replace of his Mother and Miranda endeavours to scold Caliban for being ungrateful regarding her attempts to educate him in Act 1 Scene 2 - “When thou didst not, savage, / Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like / A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes / With words that made them known.” From this, we can gather that Shakespeare is attempting to argue the futility in humans attempting to help one another through Caliban’s rebellion and failure to adopt a moral stance which is another criticism of human nature.
“She turned to him in scorn. ‘Listen, Nigger, she said. ‘You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?’” Crooks knows automatically what she means as Curley’s wife becomes very aggressive and extremely racist towards Crooks. Curley’s wife is shocked that he even spoke to her and Steinbeck projects this though using the word “scorn”. Curley’s wife has taken complete control of the situation by implying that she would get him lynched, this was typical of the time period the book is set in.
When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. 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.
She basically questions his man hood at one point and and claims she would slay a baby for him. In return this motivates Macbeth to man up and slay Duncan. To make sure Macbeth goes through with the homicide Lady Macbeth gives him incentive , " We fail/ But screw your courage to the sticking place/ And we'll not fail..."( Shakespeare 1.6.59-61). She states that if
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’. I would clutch my head as if it was giving me a migraine causing huge pain. I would also emphasise Electra’s vengefulness by raising my voice and becoming incredibly angry in the lines where she is praying to the gods for help ‘ Help me Hades and Persephone, Hermes of Hell and Lady Curse […] Come, help me avenge the murder of my father’. When Electra says’ ‘ the weight of grief crushes me down’ I would show this physically, by dropping down to the floor as if I had been crushed, as I think it would help to portray how Electra is beginning to break down. I feel that this would help to emphasis the characters desperation to the audience and helps the audience to empathise with the character.
/ Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.” (IV.iv.20-23). This proves the influence Lady Macbeth had on him, for him to be so altered and uncaring at the end of the play is merely the result of all the pressure and mental abuse she put on him while convincing him to become so destructive and
Ender’s excellence brings a lot of torture for him when Stilson wants to overrule him, Bernard frustrates him and Graff uses his sister to break Ender down emotionally. To begin with, Stilson wants to hurt Ender because he thinks he was excellent if his monitor and which is taken off. “Oh, gonna fight me huh? Gonna fight me, Thirde?” (Card 7). In this quote, Stilson shows anger toward Ender who deliberately creates a situation to hurt Ender.
She is as duped by her husband, Iago, as much as the rest of the cast and she tries to amend her wrongdoings in the end by telling the truth to Othello although she is too late to save her mistress, Desdemona. Bianca on the other hand is women who I believe is in on the whole plot to ruin Othello. In my readings I think that Iago uses this women for his
Section 1.1 Beloved Morrison portrays Sethe as a character whom widely faces physical and mental oppression throughout Beloved. Sethe’s recollection of the nephews attacking her can be viewed as a form of physical and mental oppression. “One sucking at my breast, the other holding me down”, the use of the cacophonic verb “sucking” accompanied by the repressive verb “holding” emphasises the brutality and aggressive nature of the act, physically oppressing Sethe; while the personal pronoun “my” highlights the perversion of it. “Their book reading teacher watching and writing it up”, Morrison’s use of the verbs “reading” and “watching and writing” creates a lexical set of learning, this could infer that School-teacher is using the attack as an experiment. However the verb “watching” could allude to the Male Gaze, a term coined by Laura Mulvey in 1975.
Different from other women, who obey men and follow orders, Shelley represents Safie as a rebellious female figure in an attempt to convey her hostility toward sexism. Safie’s strength is shown when she disregards her father and escape to join Felix instead. Because of Safie’s mutinous characteristic, Safie is able to criticize a male dominant society where women’s rights are often neglected. Furthermore, Shelley argues that confinement is nauseating because it is a form of oppression toward women. Victor’s two years of alienation between himself and society during his process of creating the monster parallel the period of a woman’s confinement before labor.