Petruchio, a wealthy and unmarried gentlemen from Verona, wishes a wife. Katherina is incredibly ill tempered and somewhat childish, however her large dowry is an irresistible temptation to Petruchio and he marries her against her vicious protests; however, due to her unfavourable temperament, he soon finds everything about her displeasing(?) and begins to ‘tame the shrew’. This taming is unconventionally achieved by (and so adequately described as) "kill[ing] a wife with kindness" (4, 1, 174). “I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet.
Beatrice is cynical and witty; she doesn’t conform when it comes to the role of women in Elizabethan time. In terms of how males view females, there is a theme of cuckoldry (men who married unfaithful wives). This is shown in the first scene when Leonato confirms that Hero is his daughter, ‘Her mother hath many times told me so’, a joke at her expense, implying she is unfaithful to him. In a conversation between Claudio and Benedick, they talk about Hero. Claudio asks if he ‘noted’ her, Benedick tells him he did not, but he ‘looked on her’.
An example of this is his lack of any legitimate reasons for killing King Duncan and obtaining the throne except for his own ambition and greed to become king. The prophecies that Macbeth receives from the witches seem so true that he relies on the words of these predictions alone, instead of taking action himself to secure the works of the prophecies. Macbeth let his ambition blind him; as did the ruler in “Ozymandias”. Another consequence of ambition is loneliness. Ozymandias and Macbeth had so much ambition that they put themselves above all of their peers and former supporters.
Mackenzie Kahl DRAM 105 March 2013 Play Critique #2 On Saturday March 8, 2013 I attended the Young Theatre of CSU Fullerton’s production of “Blithe Spirit,” originally written by Noel Coward. The intended audience could be any adult but probably relates more to middle aged adults and married couples. It was an unexpected amusing comedy with a little bit of darkness intertwined. The audience collectively seemed intrigued in the story line and entertained by the actors. The main action of “Blithe Spirit” revolves around a man who is being haunted by his first wife’s ghost that is extremely bothersome to his current wife who ends up joining the first wife as a ghost and together they taunt and torment the man.
After he abdicates his power, Lear still acts authoritarian and kingly, despite having no real power. King Lear lives in a deluded perception of reality, unexposed to a life with hardships and without absolute power. One example of his deluded reality is that he appreciates the superficial praise from his two ungrateful daughters more than the true but tempered affection of his good daughter. When Lear is denied by Goneril and forced to leave against his will, he is furiously resistant, coping with both the betrayal of his daughter as well as the realization that he lacks absolute authority. The most notable moment of Lear’s madness being reasonable is when Lear finds Gloucester and Edgar in Act 4, Scene 6.
Since Lady Macbeth set him up to this by insulting his manhood, Macbeth took a turn for the worst when he started experiencing fear and guilt. You’d think he’d put an end to all of this negativity by this point, yet it actually drags out and he continues with doing malicious, unlawful acts. Eventually this leads to more trouble for Macbeth; He begins to struggle with hallucinations and sleeplessness, causing him to become extremely paranoid. He began to lose his human qualities during this process of regaining his ‘so-called’ manhood, as his killing spree was pretty much a joke on his actual manliness. Macbeth’s decadence then led to his marriage to slowly fall apart.
As he is a product of the Romantic value of egocentrism; he is blind to the consequences of his overwhelming desire to be omnipotent and is driven to discover the “secret of life”. To Victor, this secret is a metaphor for life yet ironically, it is his lack of communication that results in the immoral execution of Justine. Shelley echoes his blindness through the symbolism of light as enlightenment, stating that this ‘secret’ will bring a “torrent of light into our dark world” (page 55). Similarly, the recurring motifs of eyes in Blade Runner are symbolic of knowledge and perception. In the opening scenes, the extreme close-up of the eyes with blazing fires foreshadows the concept of dangerous knowledge.
“Friar Lawrence, less ambitious and more desperate than his fellow manipulators, does not hope that Juliet’s death will dissolve the families’ hatreds but only that it will give Romeo and chance to come and carry her off” (Snyder). At this point Romeo and Juliet’s relationship could not solve the problems between the families and the Friar was only uniting them. This is what made the Friar so repulsive. Even now after deaths and family issues, He treated the situation like a game. “Hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope, / Which craves as desperate an execution / As that is desperate which we would prevent (4.1.69-71).
Yet another family game ad showed a dorky guy got a sarcastic answer from a beautiful woman, besides that, in a wine ad, men are not given any reward before getting their work done. For TV shows such as Still standing, Bill (Mark Andy) embarrasses his wife Judy (Jamie Gertz) in front of her reading group, that she is dropped from the group. On the other hand, Everybody loves Raymond, Raymond (Ray Romano) must choose between bathing the twin boys or helping his daughter with the homework which he begrudgingly agrees to assist his daughter, for whom he is no help whatsoever stating today’s comedy often feature bumbling husbands and inept, uninvolved fathers. Michael state that CBS is not the only one to be blame, ABC’s My Wife and Kids and According to Jim, Fox’s The Bernie Mac Show, The simpsons, Malcolm in the middle, and the recently cancelled Titus, and the WB’s Reba also feature women who are better organized and possess better relational skills than their male counterparts. While most televisions dramas tend to avoid gender stereotypes, as undermine “realism,” comic portrayals of men have become very negative.
The family's rich friend Rajat Kapoor, has been found guilty of raping Aditi’s cousin when her cousin was a child, the wedding planner has a secret love with the maid and so on. All of these complex human relationships make this whole story seem very authentic. It leaves us with deep thoughts about different cultures and different attitude about social class. One thing that intrigued me so much was the different attitudes on sex or emotion between different classes in India. In the movie, we learn that the wedding planner is a poor and unsophisticated person who is from the low class.