Her multitude of steps toward revenge shows just how elaborate and demented her plans are. Medea first starts with convincing King Creon to let her and her children stay one more day in order to prepare for exile. Medea never intended to use this day to prepare‚ for she used it to plan her revenge. Medea devised a plan to kill Creon’s daughter in order to make Jason suffer. Creon’s daughter is Jason’s new love interest
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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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FORGIVENESS IS THE BEST REVENGE "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is the strategy that shoots across our minds when the fire of revenge burns within us. Honourable judges‚ respected teachers and my dear friends. Today as I stand here‚ I would like to deviate from this often treaded path and say that forgiveness is the best revenge that we can inflict on our worst enemy. Forgiveness is that quality in a human being that separates him from the animals. It is often born out of the depths
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Catherine‚ a strong and beautiful young lady and Heathcliff‚ an adopted dark and handsome young man. Though they are meant to be together‚ their love was not an ordinary love; while both chose to make their love for each other more difficult than it needed to be‚ it is filled with wealth/status‚ revenge‚ and ghosts. Heathcliff‚ portrayed as a wild yet innocent and vulnerable at first‚ transformed into a handsome young man‚ who was filled with darkness‚ revenge‚ and manipulation due to the marriage of Catherine
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and dropped them into the East Sea. She was determined to fill up the sea to revenge herself‚ to make it no longer capable of drowning others. Rain or shine‚ she never rested; summer or winter‚ she kept on working. Even now‚ she is still busying herself with her task.” What can we learn from the above Chinese story? Desire for revenge is ultimately pointless
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Revenge Many comparisons can be seen between Shakespeare’s novel The Tempest and the epic Beowulf. One of the strongest similarities is the idea of revenge. Shakespeare’s novel occurs basically in order for Prospero to have revenge on his enemies from usurping his dukedom. Beowulf’s original monster‚ Grendel‚ starts acting out less due to revenge and more out of pure frustration. His death though‚ causes his mother to act on revenge‚ killing one of Hrothgar’s trusted advisor‚ Aeschere‚ causing
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There are several opposing characters in Emily Bronte’s "Wuthering Heights". The best example is that of Heathcliff and Edgar. Their childhood‚ appearances‚ and relationship with Catherine are complete opposites. The two men had very different childhoods. Heathcliff was born into squalor and wandered the streets of Liverpool until Mr. Earnshaw took him home to his family. He was dirty and his clothes were ragged. "He seemed a sullen‚ patient child‚ hardened perhaps to ill-treatment." As a farmhand
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When Odysseus blinded Poseidon’s son‚ Poseidon wanted revenge on Odysseus. When Odysseus finally reached home‚ he and Telemachus made a plan to exact revenge on the suitors. And when the suitors’ families found out about the killings at the palace‚ they were full of vengeance and wanted to kill Odysseus. Obviously‚ vengeance is a huge part of The Odyssey. Many times in The Odyssey‚ Poseidon wanted revenge on Odysseus. For example‚ the first time Poseidon had a problem with Odysseus was after their
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Revenge is defined as a desire to do harm in return for a wrong. Revenge is an extremely powerful tool which‚ if not used properly‚ can cause people lives in danger. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet several of the characters were blind through anger and emotions due to the fact of revenge. Hamlet’s father was murdered. Hamlet wants to take revenge on Claudius because of his action of killing Hamlet’s father. Hamlet puts a lot of lives in danger due to his revenge. Laertes resolutely want to take revenge
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Explore how Heathcliff is portrayed by Bronte in Volume 1 of Wuthering Heights Bronte centres the novel on Heathcliff’s story. One of the first things Lockwood‚ the narrator‚ mentions is how he beholds Heathcliff’s “black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows”. Straight away the audience pick up on his mysteriousness as the gothic protagonist. The past is hidden deep inside the darkness of his eyes and is reflected in his physical appearance. One very confusing aspect of Heathcliff’s
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