Is Shylock’s Revenge Justified? Shylock is a major character in the play‚ most people consider him a villain. He is a wealthy‚ moneylending Jew who practices usury. He’s revenge is justified for many reasons‚ these reasons include him being abused for being a Jew and a moneylender at the same time. Another reason is that Antonio prevents him from doing business as he loans money interest free. Shylock was a victim of an unjust trial which leaves Shylock’s will to live demolished as he is bloodthirsty
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NAME: TARYN LUU| DATE: NOVEMBER 13‚ 2012| COURSE: ENG4U9-A| TEACHER: K‚ VILCIUS Revenge is a primary theme in the novel Great Expectation by Charles Dickens. In this novel‚ many characters go out of their way to extract revenge‚ leading them to misfortunes such as death and imprisonment. Dickens makes it very clear that nothing positive can come from revenge through his characters and the results that come from their revenge. These acts range from petty resentment filled with passion‚ to long and drag
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He is a man plagued by vengeance. In the novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne describes how a woman named Hester Prynne fits into a Puritan society after committing an act of adultery and giving birth to another man’s child. Her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ develops a bitter coldness and a vindictive obsession that impacts both Hester Prynne and her secret lover. Chillingworth was Hester Prynne’s husband before she was brought to jail. He is first seen as “a figure which irresistibly
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Medea Revenge is the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for a wrong suffered at their hands. It is seen as a ‘wild justice’‚ and as revenge is entertaining (also allowing us to consider our own morals and beliefs) it is an enduring interest in literature. The desire for revenge is an evolved outgrowth of our human sense of unsatisfied reciprocity. Revenge has been evident in the early years of human life. For many tribal cultures‚ is one member of the family was killed or injured‚ it
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Shakespeare’s Hamlet explores many issues and themes. Although loyalty is an issue that is evident throughout the play‚ it is not the most significant. The issue of loyalty acts as a catalyst in developing the other major issues in Hamlet such as revenge‚ appearance and reality‚ mortality and fate. Loyalty creates the drama in the play and is the driving force behind the play. Loyalty is apparent in most of the main relationships in Hamlet including Hamlet’s loyalty to Old Hamlet‚ Fortinbras’
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of them with no remorse. Now‚ the primary question that arises here is whether or not Odysseus acted on these suitors for the purpose to avenge their actions‚ or simply reap revenge upon them. Odysseus’ actions
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anything to protect it from danger. In some cases‚ however‚ this does not apply. For the sake of greed‚ revenge‚ or hatred‚ some mothers have gone to the extremes to kill their children. This action is known as filicide. This act exists today but has long existed since ancient times. It is seen in early texts such as Euripides’s Medea‚ where a crazed Medea kills her children in order to attain revenge on her cheating husband. This tale parallels real life tragedies such as the story that waved national
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I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes‚ could I when there have precipitated him to their base‚” (Shelley 79). Revenge takes a big part in Mary Shelley’s novel‚ because most of the characters experience the feeling of wanting to get even with one another. The two main characters wanting revenge are the monster and Victor because they both envy one another and have no respect for each other. Victor abandons the monster and has nothing to do with him‚
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Hamlet Essay Perhaps the most important‚ dramatic‚ tragic‚ violent‚ and gory scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the last scenes in which a duel between Laertes and Hamlet turns into the death scene of more than four major characters‚ including Gertrude‚ Claudius‚ Laertes and Hamlet. Traditional death scenes involve the death of just one character and in some cases that is dramatic enough‚ but this death scene is huge‚ involving the death of almost all major characters. This scene not only
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allow us to differentiate amongst others. While all humans have different attributes‚ they all share a common trait‚ and in this case‚ it is considered to be ‘revenge’. Revenge is “the action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.” Throughout the course of the novel‚ Shelley showed us that revenge comes from one’s core; it is a trait found mostly within people who have faced some sort of betrayal from a loved one‚ in this case‚ a ‘parent’ or its ‘child’
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