Enormous construction projects took place, such as the resurrection of the Great Canal and the famous Great Wall. The Ming was also responsible for establishing the Forbidden City in Beijing. The Qing’s success did not last eventually after many reforms due to land distribution, examinations, and social inequality; the Qing began to lose hold on their once strong control. Events such as the Opium war and the Boxer rebellion damaged the Qing dynasties social order and military force. The systems became corrupt which lead to political and social disintegrations.
The causes of her death was the buildup of guilt in her. In this quote Lady Macbeth was trying to wash off her guilt by using the word blood in comparison. She feels remorseful for her husband sin. They have killed many innocent people to cover up their past faults. Thus this was what she meant by not even the perfume of Arabia can cover up her guilty sin.
Many times during the novel Of Mice and Men Steinbeck creates contradiction: Curley’s wife’s red wardrobe compared to the brown, mucky, ranch. Even George and tall Lennie are conflicting themes in the novel. These are only two small examples, looking deeper in the novel one finds the importance in Curley’s Wife’s death. The passage describing Curley’s wife’s death is the most emotionally wrenching for the reader in the novel. Steinbeck elicits contradictory feelings in the reader: sympathy for the recently murdered woman as well as sympathy for his murderer.
Medea is a guilty woman due to her rash actions. She is the murderer of a king, a newly wed woman, and two of her own children. Two witnesses, the Messenger and the Chorus, have actually observed parts of this unfortunate incident. The Messenger sees the dead bodies of King Creon and his daughter and the Chorus hears her children’s last words. They conclude that Medea is guilty and needs to be punished.
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.
Brooks shows us that the plague causes many to suffer not only physically however mentally and emotionally as well. Before Anna could “mourn the (people) that (she) loved, another (person) was ill in her arms”. This caused Anna to come to a point in her life where she could either sink or swim and Anna decided to sink. Anna decided to be cruel to herself and turned to poppies, even though it did relieve her pain then, she suffered much more later. Not only did people suffer from the plague and what it brings, however people suffered from their own personal upbringing.
He begins to draw others into the tragedy of Eva Smith’s life and death. He attracts the sympathy and compassion of Sheila and of the audience by his clear and hard-hitting description of the girls misery. After the inspector informs Sheila, she portrays a distressed and agitated type of behaviour. On page 17 she says ‘Sorry! Its just I cant help thinking about this girl-destroying her life so horribly.’ This shows Sheila feels commiseration and sensitivity towards Eva and her death which comes across as genuine regret when she realises she could be linked to her suicide.
After the murder, Neff begins to care about what might happen to Lola, Mr.Dietrichson’s daughter, both of whose parents have been murdered. Neff is also worried about Keyes, the determined manager of the claims office, whom we later discover he is confessing to on the Dictaphone. Later, in a confrontation between Phyllis and Walter, she shoots him in the chest, but he has the strength to shoot and kill her. Neff goes back to the office, wounded and confesses what happened through the Dictaphone. In the majority of noir films, the femme fatale remains committed to her independence, rarely allowing herself to be converted by the hero or captured by the police (Blaser).
Guilt “The Silent Killer” In William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” guilt and shame causes a slow and painful death not only for Macbeth but Lady Macbeth as well. From Macbeth’s hallucinations of Banquo’s ghost to Lady Macbeth’s suicide, guilt is represented in both of these misfortunes. Guilt causes Macbeth’s mind to slowly deteriorate over time, which generates a slow and agonizing death. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffer from insanity due to their crimes, making both them choose extreme immoral decisions such as agreeing to kill Banquo. Knowing this(Prpp) one might assume that Macbeth’s selfdestructive guilt cannot be appeased by recourse to action.
This is right after she hears from the Nurse that Romeo was the one who killed Tybalt. Her initial shock at Tybalt’s death gives way to her intense feeling of love for Romeo. She feels betrayed and doubts Romeo, perhaps wondering if Romeo only got close to her so that he could kill Tybalt.