His change of attitude grows confusing as he professes his dear love after her awful death, “ I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?”(5.1.255-257). After all the hatred consumed for Ophelia, Hamlet feels the need to show his love and care for her only after she is dead. Hamlet’s web of lies causes a dent in his portrayal towards society and the audience.
Antigone's downfall is the result of her own doing. She refuses to listen to Creon because she is Polynesis' brother and wants him to be buried and suffers the consequences of disobeying the king. Antigone's death is not deserved for the crime she did. Creon sentenced her to death because he was threatened for his thrown. The readers are saddened because Antigone should not have died and she should be the queen of the kingdom instead of Creon.
In the play “Antigone” written by Sophocles, it is clear that both family and authority are honoured in many different ways. Both Antigone and Haemon honor family while Creon and Ismene honor authority. Antigone values her family as she fights against the law to bury her unburied brother, Haemon shares his thoughts with his father and also through his love for his bride shows family honor. Creon shows arrogant thoughts towards the ideas of family honor when he creates the law that his nephew should not be buried, Ismene shows strong honor to authority as she does not help her sister bury and honor her brother. Throughout this play Sophocles contrasts family vs authority which diminishes and changes relationships between family members and characters.
Winston suggests they just walk out and never see each other again, to save them from being hopelessly lonely when they are forced to separate. Julia shrugs off the thought, she tells him she’s thought about it before. She tells Winston, “I’m rather good at staying alive.” (Orwell 137) Hope is shared between them as they realize the Ministry can only physically kill them; they cannot make them believe anything. This belief that Big Brother and the state of the country are unnatural and wrong is a belief they are not supposed to have. Julia means love while Winston means betraying
Miller portrays the start of her vengeful needs through an intimate love and hate scene between the two characters, resulting in Proctor disowning their previous relationship: “Abby, I [Proctor] may think of you softly from time to time, but I will cut off my own hand before I’ll ever reach for you again… we never touched, Abby.” Proctor rejects any attempted reconnections with Abigail, implying he is committed to his wife, Elizabeth. This honesty from Proctor, whom she revered and adored, pains her in ways she cannot comprehend, leaving her cold and merciless as she attempts to shield herself from the unbearable scars Proctor left her. Miller’s use of “cut of my own hand” reveals Proctor’s emotions during the scene: exhaustive and slightly guilty. However, he feels frightened by Abigail intense pressure to make him hers, and
First of all, Wharton’s subtle action toward Ethan’s torn feelings for Mattie and being loyal to his wife. Ethan was unfortunate to have a choice in leaving his wife to be with Mattie but, tried a futile decision to both trying to do suicide. In the novel there were events in which Ethan was indecisive over rebelling against Zeena’s decision of firing Mattie. I was very compassionate toward Ethan when he heard that Mattie was being sent away as for his reaction was as said “now his one ray of light was to be extinguished”. The moments between Ethan and Zeena showed me how miserable he truly was and made me sympathize with him for their
Through her death, it is revealed in Macbeth his care and love for his wife. Her death was at a terrible time, and Macbeth wishes she died later, when it was possible to mourn her, as he said: “She should have died hereafter / There would have been a time for such a word.” (5.5.19-20). It is revealed how desolate and miserable Macbeth’s life will be when he says, “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day” (5.5.21-22). This line is significant because Macbeth expresses that his life will have no meaning. So even if he somehow avoids his fate, and still remains king, he will not be truly happy without the companionship of his wife.
However, Romeo states that he would rather die because of the Capulets hate, then be alive and fight for their love. The audience is aware that unless a miracle is to happen, the Capulets will not love Romeo, and thus his life will end of their hate. Finally, when talking to Friar Lawrence, Romeo tells him that “Death do what he dare,/ It is enough I may but call her mine." (2.6.7-8). Romeo shows the audience that he is okay with dying, because now he is able to call Juliet his, however most people do what they can to remain alive, this is not the case with Romeo, thus telling the audience that he is to die soon.
For unrelated reasons, Jake and Mrs. Mallard indulge in subconscious battles. Jake’s subconscious battle of right and wrong has him considering leaving the seen as soon as he caused the accident; Then, he considered giving Mariana a real number and voted against the decision, “He considered giving a real phone number but went against that idea and made one up” (44). Mrs. Mallard subconscious battles feelings of sorrow and happiness as she consider her husband’s death relief from a burden or how he might look at his funeral, “she knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead” (236-237) “But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome” (237). Dissimilar but indistinguishable, as both
Macbeth shows that he thinks life is meaningless when he says “I gin to be aweary of the sun” showing he doesn’t care about his life anymore. This may be because birnam wood had just come to dunstinaine which makes Macbeth realize everything is coming true and that his invincibility no longer exists. What’s more, the audience feels sympathy for Macbeth as Lady Macbeth dies and he says “she should have died hereafter” showing he is deeply hurt and upset by her death and feels that she did not deserve to die so early on. Furthermore, the audience would feel pity towards Macbeth when he says ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ this has a hint of a resigned tone to it, this is not only because of the loss of Macbeth’s wife but also his entire loss of purpose. In John Dryden’s poem ‘Palamon and Arcite’ we are introduced to the character of Theseus.