Clytemnestra’s lover‚ Aegisthus. Therefore‚ she accomplished her revenge over Agamemnon. However‚ did this revenge promote justice? Justice is defined as the moral principle defining rightful conduct. I do not believe that killing Agamemnon was the morally right thing to do. Clytemnestra tries to make up for one gruesome murder with another murder. Two wrongs do not make a right and that is why I believe that revenge cannot promote justice if the revenge is not morally correct. In this situation‚ I believe
Premium Agamemnon Ethics Morality
Out of the fear that the apparition that appeared to him was merely a evil spirit attempting to manipulate him into committing murder‚ Hamlet seeks to verify its claims. He does so through the play‚ where he will have actors play out what supposedly happened the night of King Hamlet’s murder‚ to see if Claudius is guilty. If he is‚ and Hamlet “catch[es] the conscience of the king”‚ then Hamlet knows that Claudius is guilty and that he can safely exact revenge
Premium Hamlet Characters in Hamlet Irony
for his strayed affections‚ Medea sent Jason’s bride a poison dress. She then murdered her children as a second form of revenge. While she loved her children‚ her hatred for Jason was greater than a mother’s love could ever have been. These acts of murder were the ultimate revenge toward her ex-husband‚ leaving him brideless and childless. Despite these crimes‚ Medea is a character who can be sympathized with. She gave up all she loved for Jason: Murdering her brother and betraying her family Leaving
Premium Tragedy Murder Love
that women can murder others‚ let alone‚ be serial murderers. What has been perceived generally in our societies is that women are the creation of God who sacrifice for others and care selflessly. It is the males who are seen as the abusers‚ the ones who murder‚ kill others for their selfish motives. That is true but not completely. The majority of people who abuse‚ or kill are males. However‚ women are also seen as doing these acts so anonymous to their “feminism”. Women also murder‚ and surprisingly
Premium Serial killer Murder Aileen Wuornos
Prosecutorial misconduct • Ineffective assistance by criminal defense counsel • Judicial misconduct • What did the prosecutor do wrong? How does immunity protect the prosecutor from the consequences of his or her misconduct? • What did the criminal defense attorney do wrong? What is the Strickland v. Washington standard? Refer to Ch. 10 of Courts and Criminal Justice in America. How do the performance prong and the prejudice prong of the Strickland standard apply to the example?
Premium Lawyer Criminal law Judge
differences between serial killing and mass killing and investigate some of the motives that are behind the predominantly white middle class males who commit some of the most gruesome and legendary volume killing of other humans. Our Fascination with Murder Due to our increasingly morbid fascination with mass and serial murderers‚ a commercial market has been created with endless capabilities. After Gary Ridgway (Green River Killer) was discovered to have killed over 48 prostitutes in Seattle‚ admirers
Premium Murder Serial killer Spree killer
results of arms measurements and the sex differences. Also‚ in 1882‚ there was progress in the study of the human skeleton due to the addition of extra knowledge to the field of forensic medicine. The research focused on the medicolegal principles defining forensic anthropology‚ which included time of death‚ stature‚ and sex (Black‚ 2012). To be more specific the history of forensic anthropology has been separated into to three periods: Formative‚
Premium Murder Crime Serial killer
Cruel Punishment Just like defining “Law‚” cruel punishment has no universally expected definition. The existing legal systems define cruel punishment in terms that best suit the applicability of their legal system as well as considering the expected morals in a particular society. The complexity surrounding definition of cruel and unusual punishment has been made possible by the elasticity of society and therefore flexibility of morals. What is moral in one society is definitely not moral in
Premium Crime Supreme Court of the United States Murder
Rachel Jenkins Period 5 In Cold Blood In the novel‚ "In Cold Blood" written by Truman Capote he illustrates the events leading up to‚ during‚ and after the murder of the infamous Clutter family. Throughout these events‚ the author frequently compares and contrasts the two main characters‚ Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. Perry Smith is one of the two main characters in the novel and also one of the murderers of the Clutter family. Perry "seemed a more than normal-sized man‚ a powerful man
Premium Richard Hickock In Cold Blood Truman Capote
There is an old saying which states‚ "murder becomes easier the second time". What is meant by this is that taking another man’s life becomes easier the more often you do it. If it only becomes easier after already killing once‚ how does one manage to succeed in committing that initial murder? By studying events in history‚ most historians‚ psychologists‚ and criminologists believe it is through a process called dehumanization. 1Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing
Premium Murder Capital punishment English-language films