...tragic hero. At the beginning of the play, he was a brilliant military commander who beat a large number of enemies. He even married Desdemona, a beautiful white woman. He was a respected war hero and a loving husband. He was so successful. However, at the end of the play, due to his tragic flaws, he became an irrational murderer full of jealousy and killed his wife and himself. In the paper, I mainly analyze how Othello became a tragic hero thanks to his internal imperfections and how he conformed to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. According to Aristotle’s definition, a tragic hero must occupy a high position and a noble stature. Othello met this part well. At the beginning of the play, Othello was a military general, a high status in the Venetian society. What’s more, many details of the play indicate that Othello was respected by most characters. For example, the Duke of Venice referred Othello as “Valiant Othello”. Montano called Othello as “brave Othello”. Even a herald praiseed Othello and said “our noble and valiant general”. Venetians relied on Othello because of his excellent military capabilities. In Act I, Scene 3, Duke of Venice said “…and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you….” Although an efficient person was sent to Cyprus, Venetians still desired Othello to go there. Venetians’ intention revealed that Othello was like a tranquilizer. People believed...
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...excellent must-see film because of the conflict between Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhall) and Frank the Bunny (James Duval) and the underlying theme of sacrifice. I. Conflict A. Donnie Darko B. Frank the Bunny II. Theme A. Sacrifice to save loved ones B. Sacrifice to change others Fear, Love, and Sacrifice: Film Review of Donnie Darko Weird, attention-grabbing, different, and back to the future explains Donnie Darko perfectly. It is all about sacrifice and caring for loved ones more than you care for yourself. The characters are definably cut out, and their attitudes are astonishing. I guarantee this movie will draw you in more than any other movie you have ever seen. Donnie Darko (2001) is an excellent must see film because of the conflict between Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhall) and Frank the Bunny (James Duval) and the underlying theme of sacrifice. In Donnie Darko there is this weird, but agreeable, conflict between Donnie Darko and a bunny only he can see in his head, Frank the Bunny. Since Frank tells Donnie to commit crimes some viewers may not agree with these “crimes” because, they may think that any crime is bad, even if they are good. However, these “crimes” help Donnie and others as well. In one incidence he burns down a house of a man who speaks on letting go of your problems and helping little kids. After Donnie burns down his house, while the police and fire-fighters are cleaning up the mess, they come upon a room that is kid porn. Because Frank told him to burn down that...
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...betrayal and assassination to try to protect Rome, so he killed his own best friend! You may think, well, why did it get to the point where he needed to kill him in order for Rome to be good and safe? Brutus is a Roman man that is trying to stop Caesar from being king and taking his spot in Rome. Caesar is a man that was from another country and he came to Rome to try to change things around to make things better for Rome. He was a famous statesman, military leader, and a dictator of Rome. Brutus assassinated Caesar because he felt like he was getting too powerful in Rome and they were noticing that he was taking over Rome and bribing people. They mainly did this because they felt like he was going to take...
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...When he is driving Gatsby's yellow car, he stops to get gas from Wilson. He tells Wilson, "I bought it last week." pg 131. This is careless because he is lying and it most-likely makes Wilson feel even more poor. This yellow car of Gatsby's is later the cause of Wilson's wife, Myrtle's death. This makes Wilson think that Tom killed his wife. This really shows that lying about the car being his was a very careless action. He then later says to Nick, "He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car." Implying that Tom told Wilson that Gatsby was the one who killed Myrtle. This is careless towards Gatsby as he would get pinned for the murder. Tom also has a careless attitude. When Tom stops to get gas from Wilson he says "‘Let’s have some gas!’ cried Tom roughly. "What do you think we stopped for- to admire the view?", Wilson then tells him "I'm sick." Tom then angrily says "Well, shall I help myself?, you sounded well enough on the phone." pg 131. This shows that Tom doesn't really care about Wilson, he is sick and gets angry at him. His careless attitude is also shown when he lets Gatsby take the blame for Myrtles...
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...In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar caesar was killed by conspired because people were scared that he would become too powerful. Right after he was assassinated Brutus made a speech to help calm the people and explain and persuade that it was a good thing that they killed him. Antony, one of Caesar's best friends also spoke to the crowd. He was not aloud to speak bad about the conspirators and he had to whatever brutus said. Brutus was using logos because because he was saying that it Caesar would someday let the power get to his head and become evil. He wanted to kill him before he ever had the chance to become a dictator. He also used ethos because he was talking about how he is proud to be a roman and he didn't want them to become slaves from caesar. He said that he loved caesar but he loved the city more. And that he would be willing to die for rome if he ever had to....
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...his loved ones and his hideous monster, while the creature was miserable and revengeful due to his loneliness, and Victor's broken promise of creating him a female. Victor was very happy studying at university. He studied the one thing he loved most, natural philosophy. The knowledge he gained gave him the desire to create a human.Victor created this human by gathering only the best body parts he could...
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...sentenced to a weird trial normal at the time though. The trial there is the accused man steps in front of two doors behind one is a tiger waiting to kill him and behind the other door is a lady waiting to marry him. The king believed that you’d pick the tiger if guilty and if innocent you’d pick the lady. This tale is written by frank r. Stockton and is called the lady or the tiger. I am trying to prove the princess told him the door that had the tiger. “The king’s daughter had a soul as fervent imperious as his own”, the author states on (page 14). She was semi barbaric she loved to see a trail when the accused man was guilty. This means seeing someone slottered didn’t bother her she actually liked to see that happen. Had it not been for her moiety of barbarism in her nature its probable that the lady would not have been there; but her intense fervid souls would not allow her to be absent on such an occasion in which she was so terribly interested. She wasn’t going to miss a chance to watch the trial shed day dreamed over, gnashed her teeth over, and pulled her hair over. She wanted to see him proven guilty....
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...Christianity practices the teachings of Jesus in “turning the other cheek” rather than retaliating against evil attacks like other religions suggest an “eye for an eye.” Jesus was tortured, degraded, judged and ultimately killed because he loved the people of the world, the same people who killed him he gave his life for. Christianity preaches that God wants his followers to be merciful like his son in turning the other cheek and loving his enemies. “We are told that we are not to resist evil but to turn the other cheek. The world assumes that evil must be resisted by every means available. We are told to love our enemies and bless those who curse us. The world assumes that friends are to be loved and enemies hated.”(Smith, p.212) If Jesus had not turned the other cheek and sacrificed himself for all of mans’ sins God would not be loving or forgiving of man and there would be no promise of eternal life which would take away life’s true meaning. The Bible clearly states that we are to love our enemies and be merciful and that doing so will yield a great reward for these holy actions. "But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."(Luke 6:35-36). Many followers of the Christian faith may not fully understand why Jesus is asking them to love their enemies. Why should we love those...
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...through murder. He wanted her for himself. In lines 21 to 25, “Murmuring how she loved me-she/ Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavor, / To set its struggling passion free/ From pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me for ever”, the speaker...
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...act of scheming between Claudius, Hamlet, and Laertes, it will be evident that Hamlet furthers the dramatic force the most. Hamlet is a better character to reveal the theme of love when compared to Claudius. Hamlet encounters his father’s ghost and is told that his father’s brother Claudius had murdered him in his sleep. “O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain, My tables,- meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain, …So, uncle, there you are; now to my word; It is ‘adieu, adieu! Remember me.’ I have sworn’t” (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 106-111). As a dutiful and loving son, Hamlet decides to avenge his father’s death. By doing so, he is accepting the task of going against all of Denmark and is planning to prove that his father was killed by the present king, King Claudius. He shall “wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past…And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain”(Act1, Scene 5, Lines 109-104) because he loves his father so much. Upon Hamlets return to Denmark he stumbles upon Ophelia’s funeral. At the sight of her casket his true feelings for her emerged: “I...
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...In Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare we see how honorable the character Brutus is. However, there is some argument to that. In this essay, I will be focusing on the points of his flaws, mistakes he made, and that everything he did was for Rome. Throughout the essay, you will see how Brutus is a truly honorable guy. Brutus is portrayed as a tragic hero in the play “Julius Caesar.” We see this through his personal character flaws, mistakes that led to his death and that he did everything for the good of Rome. Brutus had a lot of flaws. One of Brutus’ flaws is that he was too good. An example of this was when he let Mark Antony speak at Caesar's funeral. This goodness was a fatal flaw because Mark Antony turned the people against him and started...
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...Paper #1 I am writing a paper on King Lear, focusing on the main reason for his “fall” in the play. King Lear falls for power, so what is the reason for it? Does Lear end up deserving his fate? Or is he just blind to what is going on around him? Lear was a high respected aging king of British. He had three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Codelia, who he is dividing the kingdom into before he passes. Before he does so, he wanted to put in daughters through a test. He wants to know how much his daughters love him the most and which one would be great to take his place when the time comes. So he asks all his daughters how much they love him. Both Goneril and Regan, (which are his older daughters) lie to him. They tell King Lear that they love him more than anything and that they would be great to take over the kingdom in due time. He waits to hear from his youngest daughter, Cordelia (which is his favorite daughter), she is quiet at first then tells him she loves him like a regular daughter should love her father. “Nothing more; nothing less” she says. At that point King Lear becomes very angry, disappointed and immediately disowns Cordelia at sight because she did not say what Lear expected to hear from her. Deep down, King Lear was crushed and upset. He loved Cordelia very much, that was his favorite daughter out of them all. So when she told him that she loved him regular, at that moment he felt let down and started changing his moods and the person he was. I can understand...
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...funeral speech for Caesar. For example, when Brutus says, "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more;” Brutus is very skeptical about the plan of the conspirators to kill Caesar. When he finally joined, he is convinced that he is doing this deed for nothing more than the good of Rome; Caesar was too ambitious and would soon become a tyrant. His ambition causes distress for the entire city of Rome; "death for his ambition." Caesar was becoming too powerful, and it would soon do no good for Rome as Brutus explains in his speech....
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...Cat’ both by Edgar Allan Poe. One might argue that the theme of madness is presented quite differently in both short stories if compared to each other. ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ presents us a true madman; the main character kills the old man because of the look of the old mans eye. This is highlighted by the piece, which was extracted from the story itself “I loved the old man. He had never wrong me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes it was this” Furthermore it is clearly shown that the madman liked the old man and he didn’t want old mans money. Madman committed the most atrocious of crimes because of the old mans appearance. However the main character doesn’t think he is mad and strongly believes that the old mans eye was pure evil, and this is highlighted by the quotes from “The Tell-Tale Heart”. “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him”. The main character almost tries to compensate the murder by saying that he was nice to the old man before he killed him. Moreover, the main character still refused to believe in his madness “Ha! Would a madman been so wise as this”. The main character truly and faithfully believes that he is too clever, too cautious, too driven with his ideas to be mad and...
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...I can see how some people would say that Hamlet is actually crazy. I can see that more so towards the end of the book than in the beginning. One part is when he stabbed Polonius when he was hiding behind the curtains. But Hamlet thought that Polonius was Claudius and when he noticed the he had actually killed the wrong person he didn't seem to care that much. He was just like whoops and wasn't really sorry about it. Then he hides Polonius’s body under the stairs in the lobby, that is very inhumane to treat someones body like it is just a piece of trash. He also wouldn't tell them where he hid the body he was just sending them on a wild goose chase it wasn't until he absolutely had to is when he told them where he hid it. I don't see how someone could do that with out a second thought it was like he was just throwing some thing away and it didn't mean...
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