Tale Of Two Cities Dialectical Journal Essay

. but the Evremond people are to be exterminated” (Dickens, 372-373). She wants revenge against the Evremonde Family, specifically Marquis St Evremonde for the deaths of her nephew, sister, brother, father and brother-in-law. Marquis also happens to be Darnay’s uncle, Lucie’s uncle in-law and therefore he is related to their child as well. Madame Defarge realizes this and commences a plan to kill all of the Evremonde family.

We hurry inside the door and Saxton locks it behind us. “So Derrell had Beck’s scarf, and Beck was last seen with Mr. Burton. That doesn’t make this complicated at all,” Saxton says with an extreme amount of sarcasm. “What are we supposed to do? I don’t know where Mr. Burton lives, so we can’t just go and investigate there,” I sigh.

Known for her way with words of manipulation and famed by her sinister masterminding of great King’s Duncan’s murder, her legacy was one that took a cold dark turn; when her nearly in-existent conscience embarks her on a slow and perilous descend into hysteria, and ultimately her demise. Her dark journey begins when the prophesized prediction of three witches spark an overpowering ambition that would soon become an obsession. Her uncontrollable desire to attain the throne made her begin scheming a plot to ensure the prophecy becomes true and by which she would attain her life’s ambition. From the moment she heard of witches’ prophecies she lived her life with the sole purpose of attaining the position of power. For that she was willing to go to great ends; doing anything and everything it took to achieve this ambition.

By the end it is revealed that Lise is the cause of her death. She plans her death by making Richard kill her. However, instead of making Lise a damsel who is the victim in Richards murder, Spark twists the narrative and makes Richard a pawn in Lise’s game. In The Driver 's Seat, Spark writes that Lise is the one driving and forcing Richard to go with her, not the other way around (87). Lise is calling the shots, she is in the driver 's seat, metaphorically in the sense that she holds the authority, and literally in that she physically has to drive Richard to the place where she instructs him to kill her.

She wanted her revenge to be perfect she even killed her own children to get revenge on Jason leaving her. Madea killing her own children made her feel powerful in a sick way. It 's almost like she wasn 't a mother to those children for a second. Madea is the one who suffered the most. Revenge got the best of her and now she has to live with grief for the rest of

It has been cherry-picked from a Bible story in which a sterile woman named Rachel begs her husband for children, using that phrase to express her sorrow. The Gilead society has used its power and corrupted the original story by taking the phrase literally, sending the Handmaids to a certain death in the colonies if they cannot bear children after a specified time. During the Prayvaganza, the Commander in charge of the service claims that the young girls’ arranged marriages benefit women by saying, “We’ve given them more than we’ve taken away...think of the trouble they had before..some of them were desperate, they starved themselves thin or pumped their breasts full of silicone, had their noses cut off. Think of the human misery”(Atwood 219). By saying

His next task is approaching Othello to tell him that Desdemona has been cheating on him with Cassio. Jealousy spreads to Othello as Iago's plan starts taking effect. To provide evidence for this accusation, Iago plants a handkerchief of Desdemona's in Cassio's house. Othello's anger and insecurity allow him to be persuaded very easily by this flimsy evidence that he believes proves Desdemona's guilt. In order for this plan to work out, Iago had to kill his wife, Cassio, and Roderigo.

This perversion of one of the most sacred acts of motherhood enhances the horror of the length she would cross to achieve her goal. However, it also implies that considering Lady Macbeth as merely a brutal, malicious woman stirring her husband to slaughter a poor old king- is a misevaluation and understatement of this character. In Defense of Lady Macbeth An attempt to investigate who actually planned the murder of Duncan, can be referred to the findings of A. C. Bradley in the essay, “When Was the Murder of Duncan First Plotted”, in his Shakespearean Tragedy: A good many readers probably think that, when Macbeth first met the Witches, he was perfectly innocent; but a much larger number would say that he had already harboured a vaguely guilty ambition, though he had not faced the idea of murder. And I think there can be no doubt that this is the obvious and natural interpretation of the scene. (Bradley,

Though very shortly after, she committed suicide because she was eaten up with guilt. The stains of blood was a forever reminder of her crime. Macbeth has a different sight of bloodstains, he sees the dead for whom he is responsible. Unlike Lady Macbeth, he pushed the guilt away and tried to portray himself as the rightful ruler, while anyone who got in his way was murdered. But, guilt only lead to more murders and even more guilt for Macbeth.

Her sister was raped by Charles father and uncle, and she would only say “My husband, my father, my brother”(313), as they were all killed by the Evrémonde brothers. Therese (Madame Defarge) was put into hiding to prevent the men from getting to her, and now she wants revenge on all aristocrats. As the leader of this revolution, she has worked out codes to use, as she “coughed another grain of cough,and raised her eyebrows”(32), she signals to the “Jaques” that there is a spy within the wine shop. Madame Defarge is a woman of no pity for anyone,which is seen after the mob has stormed the Bastille, and Madame Defarge “[…]released seven gory heads on pikes”(212) to send a message on who now has control of France. Lucie loves her family, even when her husband Darnay was imprisoned, “She waited there [for] two hours”(268), even without knowing if a Darnay was alive or

“Alsworthy: A mugger and a murderer? In a shocking turn for the ongoing Alsworthy trial, the remains of Lea Alsworthy were discovered in rural Queensland late Friday night. Already under arrest for embezzlement and credit card fraud, the public has wasted no time in crediting Jonathan Alsworthy for this murder as well. His son, Christopher, who has remained with his aunt ever since his Lea Alsworthy’s disappearance, will continue to live with her” - The Herald Sun, 18/4/1996 Born of the ashes from his father’s legacy, Christopher matures into a world that perceives him as nothing more than his father’s offspring. From the moment after his seventh year, he bears the people’s anger, not for his crimes, but for his father’s.