The murderer of our late and noble king Laius, must be found and torn to pieces in order for our suffering to lull. This is where your mighty powers come in Teiresias, speaker of the truth. Reveal who this dreadful killer of our beloved Laius is, so our newfound king Oedipus can avenge his death. We know your capability as a prophet and we are imploring your help. You have always been reliance for
I have heard their cries, I care about their suffering, and I have come to rescue them. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people out of Egypt. After making excuses, Moses finally obeyed God and confronted Pharaoh. But when Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go, God sent a series of plagues to persuade him. With the final plague, God promised to strike dead every first-born son in Egypt at midnight.
Odysseus then reveals himself. One of the other leading suitors, Eurymachos, begs for mercy but Odysseus tells the suitors to fight or to try escape. Odysseus had previously ordered two of his faithful servants, Eumaius and Philoetius to close/block all exits. Eurymachos is the next to die. As he leads a charge against Odysseus he is fatally hit with a spear to the heart.
Elizabeth George Speare did an amazing job showing the struggles of living in Jesus’ time when she focused on a boy with hatred in her fictional book, The Bronze Bow. This boy had had his parents murdered, was sold as an apprentice, and was living in oppression. All of these things caused his hatred for everything about the Romans. He blamed them for the
| Macbeth: | (Turns his body to face Macduff) Thane of Fife, Macduff? Of all men, I chose not to kill you, for my sword is filthy with the blood of your wife and son. | Macduff: | (Shouts angrily) Killer! Traitor! It is destiny which fated me to revenge for my wife and my son.
“A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worm’s meat of me. I have it, and soundly too. Your houses!” cursed Mercutio as he died. According to Benvolio, enraged Romeo said that he should have fought Tybalt in Mercutio’s place.
Jesus predicts that a time was coming when the disciples will be expelled from the synagogues and those who kill them will do it thinking that they are offering worship to God. 2. Read the following passages and comment on their relevance to verses 1-2 (Acts 7:58; 9:1-2; 22:20; 26: 10; Philippians 3:6; I Timothy 1:13). All the above passages confirm the predictions of Jesus. This is evident where Stephen is stoned to death and many others are murdered and locked up in prisons.
The whole might amount to thirty thousand souls. Candide trembled like a philosopher, and concealed himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery. At length, while the two kings were causing Te Deums to be sung in their camps, Candide took a resolution to go and reason somewhere else upon causes and effects. After passing over heaps of dead or dying men, the first place he came to was a neighboring village, in the Abarian territories, which had been burned to the ground by the Bulgarians, agreeably to the laws of war. Here lay a number of old men covered with wounds, who beheld their wives dying with their throats cut, and hugging their children to their breasts, all stained with blood.
The religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In those recesses, the natives [stained] their altars with the blood of their prisoners, and in the entrails of men explored the will of the gods. While Suetonius was employed in making his arrangements to secure the island, he received intelligence that Britain had revolted, and that the whole province was up in arms. Chapter 31. [Causes of Boudicca's revolt.]
When Ivan was ill and about to die he wanted to make the boyars swear an oath of loyalty to his son, Tsarevich Dmitrii. The boyars organized a great revolt to refuse to pledge their loyalty to Ivan’s infant son. Once Ivan heard of this he gave them a “harsh speech”, and that’s what stopped the revolt. It just shows how frightening Ivan was. Ivan was on his death bed and he could still scare a group of people into doing what he wanted them to do.