well, for the matter of fact all i had to do was make this up and it worked.... i hope. a central motif in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes. counterfeiting, or concealing one's true feelings, is part of this motif. everyone seems to lie; good characters as well as evil ones engage in deceit as they attempt to conceal their feelings: beatrice and benedick mask their feelings for one another with bitter insults; don john spies on claudio and hero; don pedro and his 'crew' deceive benedick and beatrice. who hides and what is hidden?
In Act 3 Scene 2, Don John enters Leonato’s house and says to Claudio “I came hither to tell you, and circumstances shortened the lady is disloyal.” Don John is presented as a ‘deceiver’ in this scene by his actions, creating uproar between the couple. The ways in which Shakespeare presents men’s attitudes to women are not used for comical purposes in this scene. This scene presents women to be promiscuous and untrustworthy characters. Also, the fact that Claudio believes Don John and assumes that the woman committing adultery is Hero portrays
ctions, even ifnot purposely. This shows that, in the end, Friar Lawrence is merely ahypocrite offering his distorted option.One of the places that Friar Lawrence offers hypocritical advice iswhen Romeo consults with him on how he wants to marry Juliet. When Romeofirst goes to Friar Lawrence, excitedly telling him about his new love, Juliet,Friar Lawrence is outraged, telling Romeo that he, like most young men, isnot really in love, but simply lusts for a new woman so quickly after he wasdying for his last. He says that Romeo is being too hasty and unwise inmarrying Juliet, and that he will eventually move on to someone else. Butdespite his own advice, the Friar marries the couple.
William Shakespeare establishes Benedick’s character by using diction and imagery to show his changed viewpoint on marriage. Benedick is strongly opinionated and rarely ever let’s his guard down when it comes to feelings or love. After he overhears that Beatrice is in love with him, he ponders what to do. The characterization is established through diction, “And wise, but for loving me; by my troth it is not addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her!” (II.3.235-237). He is saying that is might not be wise for loving him, but he swears it won’t be stupid for he is going to be “horribly” in love with her.
It is believed that to an extent, Othello was responsible for the tragedy that unfolded in the play; this can be partially agreed but not to a whole as this can be shown throughout the text of Othello with the manipulation of characters flaws conveyed in the play. A.C Bradleys review on this Shakespearian tragedy is that, he believes Othello is a tragedy of character, and each character is built up on the knowledge of another. Shakespeare uses textual integrity through his understanding of the human condition the shape every act into the pertaining outcome. Body: Quoted by A.C Bradley in section 3, “Evil is displayed before him, he sees it, in itself almost irresistible, aided at every step by fortunate accidents and the innocent mistakes of its victims”, this symbolises Iago and the actions he shows to Othello, being helpful when help is needed from him. Othello then sees and claims Iago to be ‘honest’ throughout the play and believing all the lies that is told to him.
Iago feels that the best way to do so is by manipulating Othello telling him that his wife is cheating on him with Cassio, who Iago coincidently hates as well. Iago reveals, “That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are. I have ‘t. it is sengender’d. Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the worlds light” (Shakespeare 1.
Things that appear true and honest may be evil or deceitful in reality. Many of the characters within the play hide behind a mask of falseness: Ophelia, Polonius, and Hamlet. Ophelia tells her father of Hamlet. ``No, my good lord, but, as you did command, I did repel his fetters and denied``(I,ii,105-106). Ophelia was in love with Hamlet but she further reveals that due to Polonius’s orders, she has cut off all contact with Hamlet and has refused his letters.
In this essay, I am going to explain how Shakespeare manages to sympathize with these protagonists. During the play of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare manages to effectively describe the tragedy of their relationship. He achieves this by creating sympathy for the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, which consequently affects the audience of the play. At the beginning of the play the audience is told that it will all end in disaster. This is emphasised with the fact that the two young lovers foreshadow their own death.
He was blindsided by someone he trusted the most his friend, and servant Iago. Who is Othello, and why is Iago so hell bent on destroying the General’s marriage and life? What about Iago, what has made him so bitter and angry? Why does Othello believe Iago as he begins to whisper into Othello’s ear that maybe Desdemona is unfaithful to him, rather than listen to Desdemona? Over the years scholars have argued that this play maybe should have been named Iago instead of Othello, but I believe Shakespeare was right in how he named this play.
This aggravates him and he accuses her of having no faith in him. He says “Why do you come hither? Have you no trust in your husband?” (Hawthorne pg. 298) Georgiana retorts saying “"it is not you that have a right to complain. You mistrust your wife; you have concealed the anxiety with which you watch the development of this experiment.