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.
* Stewart occasionally pauses and sniffs the red wine cork. * The pauses emphasise his hesitations and the wine may symbolise blood, associated with the murder he is contemplating. * He pours the wine, which is deceiving, as it makes Macbeth look like a welcoming host when he is not. * There is reference to the wine again when Macbeth talks about a ‘poisoned chalice’. * This could suggest to the audience that Macbeth is too cowardly to physically kill the King himself, so he may poison him.
Montresor is a dangerous and evil person in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. In this short story, Montresor is sensitive, trickey, and evil. Montresor is sensitive because he is going to kill Fortunato because he insulted him. In the story, Poe also shows us through the indirect characterization methods of Montresor’s own actions, words, and looks. When Montresor is ready to go to the catacomb with Fortunato, he puts “on a mask of black silk” and wraps himself up in “a roquelaire.” He wears the mask and the roquelaire because it hides his identity.
At Camp Half-Blood, Chiron allows Percy to hear his “Great Prophecy.” Afterwards, he informs the Camp of a spy for Kronos, but they put that aside as they have much bigger problems such as the impeding war against the Titans. Soon, Percy once again leaves camp with Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, to find out Nico’s battle strategy. Percy agrees with his plan and procures a blessing from his mother, which allowed him to descend in the Underworld. Here, Nico betrays Percy to find out more information about his mother, while Hades betrays them both and locks Percy in a cell. Nico however, helps Percy escape and they went back to the original plan, which was to bathe Percy in the River Styx and gain Achilles’ power, invulnerability.
Montresor seeks the destruction of his rival due to Fortunato's insult. The need for revenge, in these stories, is shown to hurt other people emotionally and physically. Both these stories exemplify the dark side of human nature. Revenge can overwhelm a person, and become the single most important objective in their life. Throughout the short story "A Cask of Amontillado" Edgar Allan Poe, develops the feelings of revenge, held by the central character Montresor.
As it dawns on him that it is only a figment of his imagination, he begins to worry that his guilty conscience and “heat-oppressed brain” (II.I.51) is making him see things. When Macbeth sees “dudgeon gouts of blood” (II.I.58) on the dagger, he decides that the dagger is an omen and that it means he should go along with the plan to kill Duncan. Shakespeare uses ominous and eerie images in the later part of the passage to show how Macbeth is getting seduced by the idea of killing Duncan, saying that “Nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep” (II.I.62). The allusions to evil people and practices in the passage suggest
Montresor is a man that has wicked mind and with his wicked mind he successfully murder Fortunato. Montresor’s cruel mind allows him to carry out a repulsive thing. He tells us why he has this twisted mind when he says: “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”(528) If we only knew why he carried out this terrible thing is true about the insult that Fortunato made calls for a murder. Montresor does not use fair methods to resolve his issue with Fortunato. He kills the man with his own wariness.
Macbeth refers to the dagger as a fatal vision (line 36) because it foreshadows his deadly intent to kill King Duncan. Macbeth is obviously under great mental torment, which is the cause of his hallucinations for the imaginary dagger. He imagines the dagger covered with gouts of blood (line 46), leading him to Duncan’s room. This image shows Macbeth’s fatal ambition as he follows his desire to kill King Duncan with a dagger which will eventually be covered with Kind Duncan’s own blood. A dagger of the mind (line 38) suggests that the dagger is simply a figment of Macbeth’s imaginiation.
Morally ambiguous characters question the validity of black and white. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment introduces Raskolnikov as a complex character. Readers judge Raskolnikov as purely evil due to his actions of being a murderer. However, readers gradually change their prejudice on Raskolnikov due to his good acts throughout the novel. The central theme of the novel is one must suffer in order for redemption.
The Motivation of Iago William Shakespeare’s Othello is a story based on betrayal, jealousy, hate and revenge. The villain in the play, Iago, is said to be one of Shakespeare’s most evil characters. On a search for power, nothing is going to stand in his way. His actions throughout the play are a direct result of his trying to attain what he believes is rightfully his. Iago’s mean and insensitive manipulation is geared towards the innocent and ends up causing the destruction of Roderigo, Cassio, Desdemona, Emilia, and Othello.