Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in ca. 1600. In Hamlet, corruption is such a prevalent and growing theme that it branches out into the lives of many important people of Denmark. Corruption is an epidemic disease that grows and spreads, killing the people who surrounding it. Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle and King of Denmark, use corruption that leads to many disastrous events and in the end, results in a negative outcome for the people involved.
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? how does deceit function in the world of the play, and how does it help the play comment on life in general? a central motif in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes.
I’ll warrant she’ll tax him home;” (3.3.29-32). Polonius was speaking to King Claudius about his plan to spy on Hamlet’s conversation with The Queen. This act of deception led to Polonius’s death, after Hamlet had stabbed him thinking that he was Claudius echoing the Queens cry behind the tapestry. The action of deceiving contributed to the deaths of many characters in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, acts of deception propagate the ideas of things that are untrue. The characters in the novel emphasized their plans to deceive
Throughout Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, cruelty surrounds the people from the inside and out. The characters begin the story as heart-welcoming souls, but as the story proceeds, cruelty forces the worst out of people. Macbeth demonstrates many attributes of a cruel man. His cruel mind leads him to be delirious as he murders his own king, Duncan. Sometimes, people need an object or attribute so badly they can bring out the worst of themselves.
The blood was covering the walls and none of the characters wanted to enter the room. Eventually, the English soldiers kill MacBeth when they raid his castle and his evil wife, who stood by his side throughout all the tragedies, died as well. This proves Cooney’s thesis because MacBeth died a horrific death. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses the character Bob Ewell as an example to support her argument. She writes, [Mr. Ewell says] "I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin' on my Mayella!"
Therefore it is clear that abuse of power causes the destruction of spirituality. Next, symbolism is used in the novel to represent destruction of spirituality due to corruption. Here Roger kills the sow which they hunted in a very unusual/unpleasant way, that it clearly represents fallen spirituality. “Roger found a lodgment for his points and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. […] ‘Right up her ass!’ ‘Did you hear?’ ‘Did you hear what he said?’ ‘Right up her ass!’” (Golding 149).
The Motivation of Iago William Shakespeare’s Othello is a story based on betrayal, jealousy, hate and revenge. The villain in the play, Iago, is said to be one of Shakespeare’s most evil characters. On a search for power, nothing is going to stand in his way. His actions throughout the play are a direct result of his trying to attain what he believes is rightfully his. Iago’s mean and insensitive manipulation is geared towards the innocent and ends up causing the destruction of Roderigo, Cassio, Desdemona, Emilia, and Othello.
He went mad. He believed that everyone was trying to kill him and take his throne as King. As a result, he started murdering everyone. Firstly, he ordered some murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance, because Macbeth saw Banquo’s ghost being crowned King. He succeeded to kill Banquo but failed to kill Fleance.
A celebration that can teach us many lessons. The most important of these lessons states that Hamlet’s insanity makes perfect sense and also turns out to be an exploration of the human psyche. This particular lesson tells us that madness sometimes has a reason and madness may even be in fact devolved, not a disease that one is born into. Hamlets madness paints a bleak world of melancholy. A world that essentially creates tragedy that only comes back to make hamlet more mad.
However, they use their powers for evil purposes, wreaking havoc in the lives of whoever they meet. For example, they torture a sailor by depriving him of sleep or food and tossing his ship in a raging storm. They enjoy cruel acts like “killing swine” and display trophies of their evil deeds proudly, like the severed “wrack’d” thumb of a pilot they apparently tried to destroy. The main evidence for the witches’ evil natures, however, is their wicked treatment of Macbeth. Their goal with the tragic hero is not to help him towards power