She controls the major events of the story by manipulating her husband. Shakespeare creates a different type of female character in Othello. Desdemona represents innocence and is a confident and decisive woman. The female characters of these famous plays display strength in women and how that strength leads to a tragic downfall by the end. However, they do so in different character forms and personalities.
In another instance, it is used as defense against greater harm, as in Othello. And of course, let’s not forget the instances when deception takes the form of well-planned tactics in the hands of evil characters, as in Julius Caesar. In comparing any two plays, such as Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for example, one can easily list many dualities– tragedy and comedy, an unhappy and happy ending and seriousness and mockery. But when it comes to similarities, the repeating patterns of deceit should be the first to come to one’s mind. A short essay cannot investigate all instances of this occurrence in all works of the author, but could provide the reader with the major categories.
They give Tamino a portrait of a young woman, with whom Tamino falls immediately in love. She is Pamina, the Queen of the Night’s daughter, and captive of Sarastro. The Queen herself appears and tells Tamino that if he rescues her daughter, Pamina will be his forever. The Three Ladies remove Papageno’s padlock giving him a set of magic chimes, with instructions to accompany Tamino. The Ladies give Tamino a magic flute which will protect him from danger.
“How far would you agree that the characters’ susceptibility to deception is what drives the plot in this dramatic comedy?” Much Ado About Nothing is a dramatic comedy written by William Shakespeare. Its main themes include deception, social grace, honour, marriage and gender- with characters falling in love, falling out of love, being disgraced and being accepted once more; but what really drives the plot in this dramatic comedy? Many would argue that it is the characters’ susceptibility to deception as deceit is one of its main themes. I am going to argue for and against this and come to a conclusion of how far I’d agree that it is what drives the main plot. 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.
Now guaranteed a home in Athens, Medea has cleared all obstacles to completing her revenge, a plan which grows to include the murder of her own children; the pain their loss will cause her does not outweigh the satisfaction she will feel in making Jason suffer. Medea then pretends to sympathize with Jason and offers his wife the gifts of a crown and robe. Allegedly, the gifts are meant to convince Glauce to ask her father to allow the children to stay in Corinth. The crown and robe are actually poisoned, however, and their delivery causes Glauce's death. Seeing his daughter withered
When the oracle said that her son would kill his father and sleep with his mother she quickly abandoned her son to avoid that horrible fate and thanked the oracle for that. However, when Oedipus heard that Polybus was dead and realized he didn’t kill his father Jocasta said the oracle was useless. Jocasta is the type of person that chooses to be blind and accept the lies but only when they help her. If the truths help her then she will accept the truths. Jocasta is also trying to blind Oedipus in this quote.
She fled to Switzerland so she could have the baby away from the sight of her husband, and then drowned the infant while her lover watched helplessly. Inez lived with her cousin and his wife, Florence. She slowly turned Florence against her husband and then took the woman for herself. Now that they’ve admitted why they’re in hell, they can start to understand what hell is about. It’s clear that each of them is meant to torture one of the others.
Examples of madness would be found through Hamlet’s searches for honesty and his hate towards cheating and deception. This gives us a much stronger understanding of how Hamlet’s main goal throughout the play is a search for truth. Everywhere in the play Hamlet is surrounded by deception and lies, such as Claudius killing his own brother just so he could have the thrown to the kingdom and marry the old kings wife. Following very shortly after the death Gertrude also known as the dead king’s wife and Hamlets mother marries Claudius without any shame and shows no regret or sorrow towards her husband’s death as Claudius. These are examples of madness as these as not things you would expect from normal minded people in today’s society and even back then.
Our perception of Medea’s character is repeatedly skewed throughout the play. The initial mood change, Medea’s conscience conflicts, and her barbaric actions, which she attempts to justify, all create an “intractable ambiguity about the play’s central character” (Tessitore 588). By exploring her contradictory character traits, we are able to see that Euripides’ Medea is too ambiguous to label as the tragic hero. The tragic hero has standard traits, some of which Medea does possess. More often than not, the hero is of nobility or holds a high ranking position.
Hamlet supports and defies the traditional ‘tragic hero’ outlined by Aristotle, is a character with a high moral standing and is of noble stature that is compromised by a tragic flaw, which then results in tragedy. Shakespeare creates Hamlet with an inherent problem within himself that mirrors that in the play itself that causes a sense of chaos immediately, one of the first pieces of dialogue is ‘Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart’ this first use of pathetic fallacy describing the cold to be ‘bitter’ displaying the undertone of the entire play, and of how Hamlets character feels from the very opening of the play. This ‘bitter’ feeling is sparked by the ghost and sets his desire for revenge in motion which eventually compromises his nobility. This overall quote also sets the tone of something wrong, harsh and ‘sick’ infecting something needed, that is central to our survival, being ‘at heart’. Another indication that Shakespeare gives very early on in the play is ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.’ The word ‘rotten’ has connotations of being beyond repair of something that once was good.