Thus, Shelley warns that the destructiveness of Man’s intrinsic desires for knowledge stems from the change in values. Scott’s film Blade Runner on the other hand, extrapolates the same negative stance towards Man’s hubris in a different context, one shaped by materialistic ethos. This drastic shift in time, where commercialism now dominates the world, is conveyed through the numerous low angle shots of advertisement billboards and blimps to illustrate the extinction of the values present in Shelley’s time. As a result, Man’s inexorable desire has shifted from knowledge to corporate greed and caused the world to become a Romantic dystopia. Tyrell’s
His sense of over-entitlement led him to be easily manipulated into killing his good friend and leader King Duncan. Duddy likely inherited his love of wealth from members of his family. He even shows movies he dislikes as a result of his desire for money, seen in the quote "Duddy didn't say a word all through the screening but afterwards he was sick to his stomach." (159) While his father does not place a large importance on wealth, his extremely wealthy uncle proves to have a lasting effect on his development as Duddy is instilled with a desire for wealth. Likewise, Macbeth is easily tempted into killing and manipulating many simply due to the desire for power and social praise.
The berries lured them so much that they would collect as much as they could at a time and it almost seems like an addiction. Addiction is usually considered wrong and the fact that the persona refers to “Bluebeard” (a fairy tale pirate who used to kill his wives) compares their sins to Bluebeard’s. In the second stanza the berries start to rot and the enjoyment starts to fade away however the persona wants to linger on to it. This can be compared to the fact that all the enjoyments and pleasures of childhood seem to fade away but the desire for it to remain. The same blackberries become stinky and disgusting which reflects to the story of Death of a Naturalist.
Every character in The Pearl abuses his or her power over someone weaker. At the beginning of the novella, Kino is essentially content with his life. However, two seemingly chance occurrences Coyotito scorpion sting and Kino discovery of the pearl open Kino eyes to a larger world. As Kino begins to covet material wealth and education for his son, his simple existence becomes increasingly complicated by greed, conflict, and violence. The doctor takes advantage of his position of power over Kino.
A great amount of this sexual imagery comes as a result of Claudius’s and Gertrude’s union. Pretty much the remainder of Hamlet’s tension comes as a direct result of Ophelia. The idea of this incest between Hamlets mom and Hamlets uncle and the unstable relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia drives Hamlet insane, almost even to suicide. “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to…” (Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 58-90) The sexual Imagery between the characters Hamlet and Ophelia are omnipresent throughout the play. Throughout the play many references to sex are made when Hamlet speaks to or refers to Ophelia.
Before he goes to sleep he tells Lady Macbeth, "All causes shall give way: I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er:" (Act 3, Scene 4, Lines 168-170) Here Macbeth realizes that he went so far down this path of evil that it’s impossible for him to ever make up what he has done. Like Macbeth, Lady Macbeth realizes what associating herself with the murders will bring her and it torments her through nightmares. She begins to sleep walk and cries, “Out, damned spot, out, I say!...What, will these hands ne’er be clean?…Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of / Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (Act 5, Scene 1, Lines, 37-55) The blood symbolizes Lady Macbeth’s guilt over Duncan’s murder. Her hallucination of the blood on her hands and her constant efforts to wash it off shows the suffering of having a guilty conscience, which is causing her to go insane.
Hamlet's moral struggle for revenge becomes an obsession causing a change in his character. Hamlet goes so far as to feigned madness in order to achieve his revenge here he is speaking to Marcellus and Horatio saying, ” To put and antic disposition on- That you, at such times seeing me, never shall," (Shakespeare 1379) which foreshadows a change in Hamlet’s character. For Hamlet to get revenge he must change the way he acts in doing so he starts to struggle with everything else in his life like his relationships with Ophiela, and Gertrude. When seeing his father's ghost, he unquestionably accepts all he hears as truth, but doesn't act on it until he can verify it in some way. His organization of the players' performance of "The Murder of Gonzago" shows this well; only after seeing Claudius' reaction to the play does he prepare to act on the Ghost's plea for revenge.
Unfortunately, it is not just friends that can be lost when wealth enters the picture. The pearl makes Kino crazy with greed, and he forgets what his true purpose once was. Kino and Juana almost lose each other. Kino chooses the pearl over his wife’s worries and fears. Time and again, Juana asks Kino to throw the pearl back, and time and again, Kino refuses.
Being compared to the devil in a novel set in a heavily catholic country shows that she is evil, and the subtitle ‘The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, With the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan’ supports this. The fact that she is a ‘famous curtizan’ supports the idea that she is to blame for the events in the novel, as it is her promiscuity that causes the murders of so many, sparked by jealously in Brachiano. Vittoria is immediately at a disadvantage in the novel and entering the trial however. She is not even given the grace of being the centre of focus in the subtitle, added on at the end almost as if her presence is an afterthought by Webster. This shows how she is handicapped by the fact that she is a woman, in a society controlled by men.
His disgust at his mother’s “incestuous” marriage is also revealed in this soliloquy. The corrupt imagery used by Hamlet – “unweeded garden” – is reflective of the current state at which the nation is in. It is also indicative of Hamlet’s struggle to find meaning in a “weary world” that is corrupt. To further his disillusionment, his mother has married Claudius. He expresses his clear disgust for his mother’s “incestuous” deed – “Frailty, thy name is woman.” Hamlet’s disillusionment with women can be said to begin with his mother.