Revenge and madness are two themes of English literature. The two themes are used in two excellent pieces of literature. In “Hamlet” and “Cask of Amontillado”‚ revenge and madness are the common themes. Although both themes are used in the novels‚ the motivation and thought behind the idea of revenge was different. Revenge causes the characters in Hamlet to act aimlessly through indignation and feeling‚ as opposed to through reason. It depends on the guideline of an eye for an eye. This activity
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Miss Havisham’s Revenge Although many aspects of revenge resemble the concept of justice‚ these choices do not only affect us as individuals‚ but everyone around us. In the novel‚ Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens created the character Miss Havisham to portray the concept of revenge. Miss Havisham was left by her fiance at the altar‚ and from that moment on she devoted her life to make sure others felt her pain. She adopted a young girl named Estella and raised her to break men’s hearts
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just inferred that Dimmesdale would never do anything like this and didn’t even think to question him. Unlike Ms. Prynne who confronts her guilt and shame early on in the story‚ Dimmesdale holds onto his guilt secretly until he finally goes through a process of‚ at first blaming Hester‚ then realizing that it wasn’t all her fault‚ to having such strong guilt that he starts hurting himself‚ to doubting that he will ever get better‚ after which he comes out and shows everyone his scarlet letter‚ this
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All in all‚ the speaker explained the concept of revenge porn and its legal‚ social‚ and academic consequences clearly and persuade the audience to pay much more attention to this topic effectively; however‚ the weaknesses of this speech still exist. First of all‚ although the speaker prepared a very organized PowerPoint‚ the screen size was so small that the audience who seated at the back could not see it clearly. And as I mentioned previously‚ adding those extra chairs also contributed to the
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The responsibility of revenge on the perpetrator falls to Hamlet‚ since he believes his father was murdered. Hamlet learned the events that unfolded during his father’s murder in the garden from a ghost that claimed to be the spirit of King Hamlet. In both soliloquies‚ his desire and drive to kill Claudius is “prompted to [his] revenge by heaven and hell” (2.2.547). His thoughts of revenge derive from seeing his father’s thought to be spirit in purgatory. The ghost that visited Hamlet may be the
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Through the lives of people around the world‚ there is guilt in every action that is done. This guilt can surface from something simple or complex‚ depending on the person who is feeling the guilt. It is impossible to go through life without feeling guilt at one point because it is human nature. Max has plenty of reason to feel guilt‚ even if he is not guilty himself. Max is the type of person who seems like they would self-reflect and be very aware of their surroundings at all times. He opened
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The Effects of Guilt “Sophie’s Choice highlights the choices that all individuals make and the guilt that they bear in consequence” (Ruderman 579). William Styron demonstrates this in his fiction novel published in 1979. Styron’s characters have made choices that cause them to feel guilt. Sophie’s Choice focuses on an aspiring Southern writer Stingo. He moves to Brooklyn and develops a friendship with a Polish Holocaust survivor‚ Sophie and her lover‚ a paranoid schizophrenic‚ Nathan Landau
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Wuthering Heights - Revenge Emily Bronte‚ who never had the benefit of former schooling‚ wrote Wuthering Heights. Bronte has been declared as a “romantic rebel” because she ignored the repressive conventions of her day and made passion part of the novelistic tradition. Unlike stereotypical novels‚ Wuthering Heights has no true heroes or villains. The narration of the story is very unique and divergent because there are multiple narrators. Bronte’s character Lockwood is used to narrate the introductory
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differently. Guilt can be dealt with in two ways: publicly or privately. In The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale both commit adultery‚ and both Hester and Dimmesdale deal with guilt from the sin they committed in completely different ways. Hawthorne writes about dealing with guilt publicly and privately to show the emotional and sometimes physical toll of guilt based on how people choose to deal with it. Hester is forced to deal with her guilt in public.
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he has wrought. “The Cask of Amontillado” has everything in it‚ it has so much irony and symbols and so many different themes. There are three different themes that you can see within “The Cask of Amontillado” and they are betraying‚ gothic‚ and revenge. The first theme of “The Cask of Amontillado” if betrayal. Fortunato feels as though he is friends with Montresor. “My friend” (237)‚ Montresor seas to Fortunato over and over again threw out the whole story. Betrayal is the theme because Fortunato
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