The death of one’s father and a ghostly visitation thereafter are events that would challenge the sanity of anyone. The circumstances of King Hamlet’s death render it especially traumatic. The late King seemed to be an idol to his son; Hamlet looked up to him and aspired to have the same qualities. Hamlet doesn't like King Claudius and sees him as a swindling usurper who has stolen not only the dead King’s throne, but Hamlet’s as well(2.4). Hamlet shows Gertrude that she has lowered her standards by marrying Claudius, When he refers to old Hamlet as, “A combination and a form indeed / Where every god did seem to set his seal” (3.4.55-61).
He continues, “it us befitted/To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom/To be contracted in one brow of woe” (I.2.2-4), which prompts the city to grieve for the late king. Claudius never mentions his own feelings about the king’s death, but expects everyone else to mourn. He then goes on to talk about his marriage to Gertrude, as if his self-interested act of taking the dead king’s wife for his queen somehow compensates for his death. Claudius’ strange behavior is a hint that something is not the way it appears. It suggests that he is putting on a disguise, which is later confirmed when it is revealed that he is the one who murdered the king.
Macbeth is a play that gives insight on the evil and darkness of a person being. This play shows how a man changes his very conscience and goes against his very morals which in the end destroys everything he has, even the relationship of his beloved wife Lady Macbeth. The being of the story they have a very close and intimate relationship but as the play progresses their relationship vanishes till it is like it was never there. The very first sign we have of how lord and Lady Macbeth relationship is when Lord Macbeth sends her a letter in which he tells her everything that the witches have said about how he will be king and how they said he would be thane of Cawdor and he became it. He also says in his letter “Lady Macbeth “This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou might’st not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant off what greatness is promised thee.”(1.5.9-12) He gives her created for everything that it about to happen to him and he wants to share with her the power and riches that come with all that will happen to him and her.
This can be compared to Hamlet when the distrust between Hamlet and his mother occurred intentionally. Hamlet feels as though his mother Gertrude has forgotten his father who has passed away when she remarries her former husbands brother. This corruption of trust is seen as the foundation that unveils the several layers of events in which lead to the tragedy of the murder of a whole royal family. Similar to Hamlet, the suicide of hamlet occurs from the
They say, “Love can be dangerous in the wrong hands.” In the poem, “My Last Duchess”, that statement is a fact. All that the woman ever did was smiled at the things that made her happy, but her husband felt as if she gave him the same attention as she would a stranger. He wanted to feel special and since she could not give him that extra attention that was needed, he decided to have her killed. He also took upon himself to tell the father of his new wife, what had happened to his last wife. He basically was informing the father that if his daughter does the same as his last wife then she would be killed as well.
From the start of the play Hamlet mourns his father’s death and is in stasis. By the end of the last soliloquy, Hamlet takes a major step forward in his psyche and willingness to initiate action. The first soliloquy takes place in Act 1, Scene II, in which Hamlet discusses his remorse towards life. Hamlet wishes that his “too solid flesh would melt” (I.ii.133) and that if he was not restrained by God s laws, he would commit suicide. Though saddened by his father’s untimely death, Prince Hamlet also expresses clear disgust for his mother, Gertrude, for marrying his uncle, Claudius, only a few months after his own father’s death.
Macbeth hatches the plan, as he is in conversation with Lady Macbeth, he states, “When we have marked with blood those sleepy two”. Sleepy contains connotations of vulnerability and no use of self-defence, therefore meaning that the guards are helpless moreover Macbeth planning to frame them whilst at this vulnerable stage, infers the tyranny within. Aristotle’s theory on a Tragic Hero states that persuasion soon follows the self-indulgent of greatness. In this instance, his own wife, Lady Macbeth, convinces Macbeth to kill his best friend, Duncan. She insults his masculinity greatly, by calling him a coward.
As soon as the nurse finds out that Tybalt is dead her reaction is very troubling and she doesn’t exactly know how to break it to Juliet so at the end result she says, “Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.” (3.2.69-70). This quote is a literal and a grammatical structure because Juliet is very upset but angry as well, she is young and she doesn’t exactly known what to do in the situation. Romeo’s blamed for the death of Tybalt. Fat occurs again when Romeo comes to the understanding that Juliet is dead and he kills himself too. At the start of the play Romeo dreams that if he goes to
So every time Blanche gets sad or feels depressed she remembers her husband and hears the music. Blanche remembers her dead husband because she blames herself for his death. She blames herself because right before Allen committed suicide she told him that “he disgusts her.” She tells him that because she catches Allen with another man. At first she acts like it didn’t bother her and offers to go dancing but when they were dancing to the Polka music she tells him that he disgusts her and a moment after we hear a gun shot. Allen committed suicide because Blanche mentioned those words to him.
Ophelia is an obedient and seemingly naive girl, who often gets used by others to better their own situation, leading to her essentially being defined by others. Many unfortunate events including an awful break up with Hamlet and the death of her father have accumulated during the course of the play. These cause Ophelia to finally lose her mind and it is in this state that she appears in act four scene five. In the first half of the scene, Ophelia enters as insane and Gertrude only permits to see her because her madness could attract undesirable inquiry into the goings on at Elsinore. Claudius and Gertrude are sung and spoken to in a blunt fashion by Ophelia, who speaks of chaos, death and women being used by men.