Essays 241 - 270
runs the eavesdropper through; the Hamlet who sends his school-fellows [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] to their death and never tro...
In eleven pages this paper examines the revenge of Shakespeare's tragic protagonist and how his being caught between acting and hi...
In five pages this paper assesses whether revenge or love is the most dominant theme in this novel by Emily Bronte. There are no ...
In five pages Heathcliff's motivation of revenge is examined in an examination of Emily Bronte's novel. Five sources are cited in...
In five pages this research paper analyzes the chorus and its continued deity reverence despite its expressed revenge against its ...
In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...
In six pages this essay considers Montressor's revenge against Fortunato and ponders whether or not he ever feels guilty or remors...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
stables, no longer a real member of the family, Catherine still roamed the hills with him, being his companion, and he really her ...
by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...
as she was forced to come face to face with her own shortcomings, which ultimately cast upon her the tragic flaw that eventually l...
thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
answer might lie with the inner conflicts that were raging within Hamlet regarding his concept of honor and his desire to o the ri...
to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...
the victim in both instances, we realize the actual consequences of our unprepared state. We were sitting ducks in both instances...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
revenge" (Poe 280). Because Fortunato regarded himself as a most knowledgeable wine connoisseur, Montresor schemed to get him dow...
mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their po...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...
violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. / But this eternal blazon must not be / To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! ...
short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...
manner by which he perpetually transfers his deep-seated anger and frustration upon all who enter his life, even to the point of e...
the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...
tells Hamlet that "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear" (I, v). Hamlet is confused and surprised, and he then learns that...
and situations in black and white terms. Therefore, he is less tolerant of sin and more judgmental then his Danish counterpart. Wh...
Around, around, in airy rings, / They wheel with oarage of their wings" (Agamemnon, 2002). The image of the birds, circling over ...