His son, a younger and more modern Satyr, tries to tell the truth to the Cyclops in an attempt to help Odysseus. After an argument, the Cyclops brings Odysseus and his crew inside his cave and eats some of them. Odysseus manages to sneak out and is stunned by what he has witnessed. He thinks of a scheme to get the Cyclops drunk and burn out his single eye with a giant poker after he has passed out from inebriation. The Cyclops and Silenus drink together, while Silenus tries to hog the wine for himself.
Iago has obviously lived with this sociopathic nature for quite awhile as he has managed to not feel guilty about deceiving someone he has known for years, ‘He (Othello) holds me well’, Iago says that Othello trusts him and he is going to take advantage of this trust. Without Iago’s ‘intervention’ with the plot, as stated above, the story line would be pointless. There would be no conflict necessary for a successful story. This shows that although Iago may be
Another character who appears towards the end of the story is the uninvited guest. The uninvited guest symbolizes the Red Death, the terrible plague that the Prince and his friends were attempting to escape from. The uninvited guest showing up at the castellated abbey enhances the story and it’s moral by showing that death is never invited. Towards the end of the story Prince Prospero decides to throw a party in his castellated abbey with all of his friends to try and help himself and his friends forget about their boredom and seclusion from being in the abbey. The castellated abbey symbolizes false security.
Montressor is stingy because he purposely showed Fortunato his family’s coat of arms, “a golden foot crushing a snake whose fangs are embedded in the foot’s heel,” this imply that though the person attacking him and his family may be venomous and dangerous, but they will not get away without being punished severely. Montressor and Fortunato reached a niche, Montressor informed Fortunato that the pipe of Amontillado is inside, and since Fortunato is already drunk he wandered in unknowingly that it is a trap which will cost him his very own life. Then Montressor quickly chained Fortunato to the wall and started to seal the niche with bricks. Fortunato begged for mercy, but Montressor refused to comply, and enjoyed every bit of wailing Fortunato made. Though it has been fifty years since he walled Fortunato alive in the catacombs, but he has yet to be caught murdering his friend on the search for the imaginary pipe of Amontillado, which Fortunato believed that it actually
Would Athena give me glory?” (9.354-355) Odysseus’s character is very clever and he devises a plan to get revenge on the Cyclops and also to escape the cave they are in. He courageously goes to the Cyclops and gives him wine, all the while knowing that it will get him drunk and they can continue with their plan. The Cyclops asks him his name and Odysseus, being as clever as he is, tricks the Cyclops and tells him, “Nobody- that’s my name. Nobody- so my mother and father call me all, my friends.” (9.410-411) His courage and cleverness proves to be very effective because soon after the Cyclops falls asleep he and his men grab the stake they had made plunge it into the eye of the Cyclops. As
In the Browning poems ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘The Laboratory’ all these lover face multitude of emotions: obsession, lust, power, status and jealousy. Throughout Romeo and Juliet and the Robert Browning poetry there is also violence but for many different reasons; murder and death also play a significant role in each text. Right at the start of Romeo and Juliet you get a sense that fate and destiny play a key part in the overall outcome. In the prologue it states ‘two star cross’d lovers take their life’ This shows that their paths are already entwined and that there future has been written. In the Elizabethan time period people strongly believed in superstition, fate, destiny and the wheel of fortune.
("Psychedelic 60s: Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters." (Psychedelic 60s). The story sets in with Chief Bromden observing while a new patient, Randle McMurphy, is admitted into the mental ward. McMurphy stirs up drama within the ward by introducing gambling, prostitution, and rebellion against the ruling Nurse Ratched. The chaos begins when McMurphy bets his inmates that he can drive the Big Nurse crazy without receiving lobotomy, shock therapy, or being locked up in solitude.
Conclusion A. Forunato is Buried Alive Betrayal and Revenge The cask of Amontillado is set during the carnival season in an anonymous city somewhere in the Mediterranean region of Europe. The story recounts the last meeting between two aristocratic gentlemen, the narrator Montresor and the wine connoisseur Fortunato. Themes of betrayal and revenge clearly inform “The Cask of Amontillado,” but the persuasive irony of Montresor’s narration complicates attempts to understand his motives and other conflicts at the heart of the tale. At the same time, layers of irony also contribute to the story’s tone of horror. Because of Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is told by a first person narrator, a man named Montresor, we cannot be sure that what the narrator tells us is true.
His wife and the second cat are being run from merely for the disturbing conscious that they provide for him. Bizarre and unusual plots are often found in the Romantic period, and Poe does not hold back in his efforts. To deliberately cut the cats eye out of its socket is both bizarre and unusual regardless of being intoxicated or not. Even further, to hang the cat by a noose is ranked borderline for insanity. But the most abnormal act is that of getting rid of your wife by creating a tomb in the walls of your home would definitely be insane.
For example, when Odysseus tricks the Cyclops he claims, “My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends,/ everyone calls me Nohbdy,” Homer (298-299). As a result, complying with the code of introduction, Odysseus throws Polyphemus off course and buys him and his crew time. In addition, his cleverness here prevents other dangers with the Cyclopes. Moreover, in the same episode, Odysseus displays brilliance through his bold choices. For instance, Odysseus offers Polyphemus fiery wine in order to knock him out (280-283).