(Macbeth I, v, 26) Lady Macbeth made Macbeth feel bad about himself, by lowering his manhood and bravery. Lady Macbeth deceives everyone so well that people were scared to tell her about Duncan’s death, not thinking she can handle it. “Look like an innocent flower /but be the serpent under it” (Macbeth I, IV, 65-66) this means to look innocent and pure but to be evil on the inside. At first Lady Macbeth is able to keep her cool and not think anything of the deed. Macbeth on the other hand cannot sleep and starts to see things.
Similarly in The Duchess of Malfi, when the Duchess’ attempt to deceive her brothers and conceal her marriage leads to her death. However self-deception is also a recurrent theme in both of the plays, in Othello, it can be argued that Othello’s self- deception proves just as destructive as Iago’s, as by deceiving himself of his true nature and labelling himself as “one not easily jealous,” he continually supresses his feelings of inner turmoil until he breaks under the influence of Iago. F R Leavis agreed with this stating, “The mind that undoes [Othello] is not Iago’s but his own.” The role of deception would be nowhere near as essential to the play without the influence of Iago; described by AC Bradley as the “artist of evil” his ruthless manipulation of the other characters in the play ensures not only the destruction of Othello, but his own. Self- deception plays a crucial role within Othello and The Duchess of Malfi; it allows the audience to see further into the characters personality and gain a deeper understanding of them as a character. Othello himself is the most palpable example of self- deception within the plays as from when the audience is first introduced to him in Act One Scene Two, he believes
In their day and age these characters would be judged by many factors including social and cultural backgrounds, crimes committed and personal traits. Both of these writers seem to conjure their audience into a state where it compels them to relate to certain characters. Lady Macbeth certainly loses or suppresses her feelings of cowardice. Throughout her appalling invocation to the spirits of evil to “unsex her”, proving her ambition to attain her goal. In Jacobean times women were seen as inferior and even in the Victoria era, thus she required external forces to crush her conscience to allow her to fulfil her ambition.
As she refuses to talk to anybody, the child created her own imaginary world being unwilling to look at the reality: “Why couldn't he understand that if he kept quiet, if all of them kept quiet, her parents would hear her and come to take her home?” (47). Through the story, her illusion state changes and tend to become a realistic one. Step by step she has no choice but to find in herself enough courage to accept and to surpass the situation. Nandana can be considered a hero because, as it painful, she finally accepts and begins to talk. Secondly, there's Nirmala, Nandana's grandmother, who was binged back to reality.
Leola caused Dunstan to experience jealousy and pity. Diana is also controlling and manipulative, like Dunstan’s mother, which is why he leaves her. Through Diana, the reader sees how much Dunstan’s mother has affected his life with women. Liesl made Dunstan realize that he felt no emotion, and she caused him to feel it again. She brought him out of the isolation his mother put him in.
Abigail Williams vs. Elizabeth Proctor Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are two main characters in the play The Crucible, although they perceive different roles in the play, they also have similarities and differences. Abigail Williams in the play is viewed as beautiful, young and evil. In the beginning of the play people see her as a liar. No one likes her because she is not one of the most trustworthy people. She was dismissed from her job as a servant because she had slept with the man she was working for, whom was married.
Mary Warren, a servant of the Proctor family revealed how fear easily takes over a person’s psyche. After realizing that Abigail sought to completely destroy Proctor’s marriage and name, she became terrified of her. Wishing to keep to her faith, she attempted to stay out of the issue, but was threatened by Proctor to give false testimony. Completely scared of what would happen to her, she lies to the court despite her faith. “I cannot lie no more, I am with God, I
Her insanity drives her to challenge the status quo. "Miss Emily's story constitutes a warning against the sin of pride: heroic isolation pushed too far ends in homicidal maddness" (Brooks 14). Miss Emily, as many critics would have us believe, was not wholly responsible for her actions, her crimes. From her birth Emily is manipulated by a father whoe
NOTES ON ESSAY 2; Prompt number 1-Overall people lie and keep secrets to live because its all they have left. Sharing secrets is so the other person can then go and use it against them which ruins the friendship and trust but gives them street cred for knowing so much. -Chanda not telling Esther if Chanda’s mother has a will so when she passes it will tell who will inherent the house and garden. Chanda sees what she is doing and out of love, protection, and anger she punches her but is taken back by this sudden outburst and tries to explain to Esther why she did it but Esther not getting the answer she wanted (which was all she wanted/cared about) so she bikes angrily away and only says “Fine Everythings fine, Everythings perfect. PAGES- 80-82 Esther is the one of the main people who uses what her one and only true friend tells her out of trust and uses it against her.
The very first descriptions illustrate her initial animus by describing it as “one of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin” (Perkins 41-42). This is significant for it reflects the narrator’s own presence—she is committing an artistic sin during her marriage by having her engaging imagination and her need to compose. Her husband, John, dislikes this, and as a result, the narrator deliberately feels stifled and has to obscure her writing so that her husband will not know. The narrator is characterized as having a nervous state and is overly protected by her