If that [has] not avenged me, I can do no more!" (Hawthorne 122). Chillingworth is obsessed with taking personal revenge on Dimmesdale, but lets the community revenge itself on Hester. Puritan society persuades Chillingworth into evil, making him do anything to punish the couple who have sinned. Nonetheless, the revenge takes over Chillingworth’s life describing, "…That old man's revenge [is] blacker than my sin.
With heavy satire, dramatic and situational, Lewis shows how the devils views Christian society and how he tries to manipulate Christians into losing their faith through subtle ways. In this satire C.S. Lewis exposes man’s great and tiny faults and how the devil tries to take advantage of each of them to make his walk with God miserable until the Christian falls. The worldview in the Screwtape letters is a Christian worldview. Lewis shows that Christianity is ultimately logical and that one of the main ways the devil tries to attack Christians is to avoid logic.
Terry’s transformation throughout the film is stemmed from his moral awakening due to the betrayal he feels from Johnny Friendly and his “henchmen”. Initially, he is determined to disregard his conscience yet as a result of the guilt & restlessness he feels in regards to his role in Joey’s murder, his conscience becomes distinguished. His guilt over the murder is juxtaposed against the carelessness of the mobsters who joke that Joey could “sing but he couldn’t fly”, it is here that the Kazan separates Terry from the mob as he conveys him as a vulnerable & sensitive character as his conscience begins to overpower his ‘tough guy’ act. Kazan’s use of mist and fog relentlessly suppressing Terry Mallow highlights the ambiguity in Terry’s conscience, which reflects he is only just beginning to initiate recognition to his morals
AP Language Titus Essay In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Titus Andronicus, Aaron, a Moor and a slave, uses his influence on Tamora to create havoc in Rome because the whites treat him poorly due to him being a black slave. Because Aaron is a Moor, he is automatically considered an outcast. He is “born into a society which spell[s] out with brutal clarity…that [he is] a worthless human being”(Baldwin, “Dungeon Shook”). His society treats him as though he is nothing. It would not matter if he existed because it was only “worth half a cent to kill a nigger, and half a cent to bury one,”(Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass).
Wherefore should I, Stand in the plague of custom and permit, the curiosity of nations to deprive me,” (Shakespeare 1.2.1-4) so Edmund punish his father for the lack of respect he has gotten over the years. Edmund does get retributive justice catches him at the end when he is killed. Fraser believes that it will not solve anything, anger “can easily serve to perpetuate violence and hatred- one act of violence leading to another in response, which can provoke yet another” (Fraser pg2). Fraser states “Forgiveness is
In the article, “Symbolic Kinship and Secret Identity” Baird is quoted as stating, “deprivation, ‘motivates the hostility of the monster against the race of men, he is driven to destroy what he cannot share.’” (Acosta, 49) Grendel gets his revenge by the death and destruction of the men who represent what he can’t have: success, joy, glory, and favor in the eyes of God. For Grendel’s mother, revenge takes on a much more specific task of avenging the death of her only son. "But a monster still lived, and meant revenge. / She'd brooded on her loss, misery had brewed / In her heart, that female horror…"(Beowulf, 1257 - 1259). Propelled by a mother’s
Oedipus does not want to believe the truths Tiresias is telling him and falsely accuses Kreon of plotting against him to become king of Thebes. Kreon is so hurt by this that he tells the chorus, "This accusation against me by our ruler Oedipus, It's outrageous.” By the end of the play, Kreon tells Oedipus that "I'm always as good as my word; I don't speak before I think." In Antigone, Kreon becomes king of Thebes after Polynices and Eteocles commit fratricide in battle. Antigone commits her ‘crime of reverence' by burying Polynices after a direct order from Kreon dictating that everyone leave him on the ground, unburied. Kreon first accuses the council of elders of being stupid and old when they suggest that the gods were behind Polynices' burial.
He arranged both murders cold bloodedly, plotting with murderers, released from prison. Macbeth killed Banquo out of jealousy; because he is "lesser than Macbeth and greater" and "not so happy, yet much happier." He kills Banquo because Banquo will father kings while he is childless. he tries to work against fate and change the part of the prophesy that does not benefit him. It is not satisfactory for him to content his own ambition.
Laertes achieves his vengeance, but quickly realizes what he has done and immediately passes into acceptance. His short sighted plot for revenge backfires as he himself is also injured with the poisoned blade. Because he didn’t think through his plan to all of the possible outcomes, he allows Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet, and himself all be killed in one afternoon. Laertes is a man of action, doing
Tybalt clearly is motivated by self-interest because he mainly thinks about defending his pride, and thus, has the urge to kill Romeo at a party without thinking about the disgracing the Capulet name. The next day when Tybalt confronts Romeo, he accuses Romeo of being “a villain” and fiercely demands that Romeo “turn and draw” because he is unwilling to “excuse the injuries [Romeo] hast done to him”(Shakespeare III. i. 62,67-68). Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel to regain his pride and therefore shows self-interest because he blinded by rage and his thirst for revenge.