Much Ado is a play based around the theme of deliberate deception- sometimes this deception is malevolent and sometimes benevolent but much of the play hinges around them and their effect on the characters. An example of malevolent deception would be Don John trying to ruin Hero and Claudio’s marriage whereas an example of benevolent deception would be the gulling’s of Beatrice and Benedick in an attempt to get them to admit their true feelings for one another to get them to wed. The gulling scenes both rely on Beatrice and Benedick being persuaded into believing that they are in love with one another, this is dependent on them ‘accidentally overhearing’ the other characters talking about them whilst being within earshot but so as not to be seen. The majority of the subplot is dependent on these gulling scenes being successful as if they hadn’t worked or if Beatrice and Benedick hadn’t been so susceptible to this benevolent deception than there wouldn’t be much of a story. These gulling scenes provide comic relief in contrast to Don John’s malevolent deception and make Much Ado lean towards being a comedy rather than a tragedy as they use dramatic irony for humour.
Borachio makes most of the plans to of deception and to stop the marriage. He says, go you to the Prince your brother, spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned Claudio, whose estimation do you mightily hold up, to a contaminated stale, such as one Hero. They then go onto plan to bring Claudio to see Hero with Borachio, but they will have disguised Margaret as Hero. This is one main part of deception. The second of the two main plans of deception is Claudio, Leonato and Don Pedro are talking, in hearing distance of Benedick, of Beatrice.
In The Tempest, William Shakespeare portrays Prospero’s actions to be driven by revenge. In the second scene, the revenge that Prospero is longing for is shown. At the beginning of scene II Prospero talks about how it is an “accident most strange” that “[his] enemies” were “brought to this shore” (Shakespeare 1.2.178-179). Shakespeare uses sarcasm here to say that Prospero had planned on his enemies arriving at the shore, instead of an ‘accident most strange’. Prospero uses sarcasm with his daughter to try and not alarm her rather than telling her the complete truth.
He is looking for a way to obtain revenge more than he is to find out the truth. The only proof Othello thinks he has is the handkerchief he believes Desdemona gave to Cassio. He is ready to kill his wife by pure jealousy. As he says in Act III, Scene 3, he could have forgive anything to Desdemona but not an affair. And assumptions are enough for him to kill her.
Dorian thinks that he can escape from the consequences of his immoral life because the portrait takes the blame for him. But he goes too far by killing his old friend Basil Hallward and then suffers from guilt. Both authors demonstrate morality and its consequences through the given
With the witches’ prophecies mulling over in his mind, and knowing that he was not the successor of the throne, he knew he had to take matters into his own hands. With the support and persuasion of Lady Macbeth, he kills King Duncan and gains his kingship. When Banquo makes his vow to find out who killed Duncan, Macbeth knew he had to silence him. After Macbeth is named king, he seeks out hired murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Macbeth does this because he is afraid that Banquo will get in the way of his new title and Fleance, because he is prophesied to be king.
The way the two gentlemen behaved was referred to as Bunburysim which according to Algy it was how it should be called since one of his acts of “Bunburysim” concerned an imaginary friend of Algy’s that always managed to get sick whenever Algy was needed for something. Unfortunately they cannot get rid of their false identities since both women claimed that they could only love someone by the name of Ernest. Things start to go wrong when all of them end up together in the country and their deceptions are discovered, threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits. What makes this play entertaining is a mixture of different techniques that Wilde decided to use. The characters’ behaviour and personality, the theme of deception and pretence, which would be interpreted by the double identities that Algernon calls ¨Bunburying.¨ The dramatic irony is also a very important part in the play, as well as the plot structure and the
Iago has many rather theoretical reasons for his revenge, one of which being his failure to receive the spot of lieutenant, and the other being that he “suspect[s] the lusty Moor” of sleeping with his wife, Emilia. Iago, being a very jealous and icy man sees that the only way to be “even’d with him” is to go “wife for wife”. Iago’s revenge is a carefully plotted strategy that involves many intricate details and occurrences. This extract tells the reader a lot about Iago’s plan that has previously only been assumed. Iago is so emotionally detached that he claims his ‘love’ for Desdemona exists predominantly “to diet [his] revenge”.
He generalized them into a stereotype based on their double-sided nature of appearance vs. reality. Christianity brought about the downfall of men, as they feared the consequences of their sins in the after-life. Hamlet is stuck in a quandary between his encoded belief that he is straight, and his sincere feelings of scorn for females and affection of males. Hamlet is reluctant to kill his uncle, because he is a man and as much as he wants to kill him, he is only emotionally at liberty to attack Gertrude, a female. Societies expectation created “madness” and prevented the pursuit happiness as there was no freedom of individuality.
Othello is manipulated by Iago multiple times during the play. Iago tells him that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair and Othello believes him because of his reputation as “Honest Iago”. Although, Othello’s reputation causes some problems as well. Othello believed that reputation was everything, so if someone found out his wife had an affair, he would be ruined. This contributed to why he kills Desdemona.