The Sudden Fall From Power In Shakespeare's Henry VIII

American sociologist Charles Horton Cooley once said, “to cease to admire is a proof of deterioration”. He’s stating that when admiration in life is lost, life itself is lost. However, a person does not lose admiration in life quickly. It is a buildup of hardship and challenging moral decisions that lead to the mental deterioration of a human being. William Shakespeare displays this idea of hardship and mental deterioration in an extensive number of his tragedies, one of which being Macbeth.

“A man with too much ambition cannot sleep in peace” as stated by Maxx Mitchell. This statement describes that the people will have some trade off in order to pursue something they have, to give up on something. However, the goal is really the choice It could lead to different consequences either positive or negative. Shakespeare 's play Macbeth is described as a tragic character and his action has been influenced by his wife. Shakespeare believes that ambition, when taken too far leads to our destruction as shown through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

When people lose a loved one, they often feel as though they need to seek revenge to make up for the life lost. They may feel that this will avenge the death or give them more peace to move on with their life. However, oftentimes people fear that revenge will have negative consequences, which prevents them from acting upon those thoughts. Shakespeare describes the thought process of people in these types of scenarios through Hamlet as Hamlet goes back and forth between wanting and fearing revenge towards his uncle, King Claudius, for killing his father. King Hamlet comes to Hamlet as a ghost to tell him to kill Claudius, but it takes Hamlet the whole play to finally fulfill his father’s wish since he fears the consequences of murdering the king of Denmark.

Shakespeare depicts the theme of both fear and shock that Romeo feels when exiled in Act 3, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet. Immediately into the scene, Shakespeare uses personification when Romeo asks, “What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand / That I yet know not?” (Shakespeare III.iii.5-6). Shakespeare sets the tone of fear using this literary device to show how there are to be harsh consequences for killing Tybalt. This theme is further explored when Romeo asks, “Doth she not think me an old murderer, /

Hamlet’s internal

Repercussions are natural when one encounters a traumatic incident. Psychological effects are the resultant of this, which makes a person destructive, thus leading them from their utopia to a dystopia. This research paper is to show the consequences of trauma by the application of trauma theory on the play “the Cherry Orchard” by the Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov. This play is about the return of Madame Ranevskaya from Paris after her son and husband died, and how her estate will be sold soon as she is buried in debt due to her excessive spending. My focus will be the application of the concept of trauma theory that is the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on the female protagonist of the play “Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya”.

They go from sane to insane. Hamlet says “How strange or odd some’er I bear myself…” (I.V.175). He is saying that he is altering his composition in order to execute a plan. He is going to become a mad man. The queen notices this of her son, “Alas, he’s mad” (III.IV.109).

Friar Lawrence is responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Though the Friar is trying to help Romeo and Juliet, he is the catalyst of their destruction. Friar Lawrence’s hubris starts the chain reaction of tragic events for these “two star crossed lovers” (Prologue. 6). He then performs the marriage of Romeo and Juliet and even fabricates a foolish plan to keep them together when Juliet is forced to marry Paris.

In Duffy’s free verse, dramatic monologue poem ‘Havisham’ cacophony and juxtaposition are employed in the opening phrase ‘beloved sweetheart bastard’. The juxtaposition between the descriptive adjective ‘beloved’ and the noun ‘sweetheart’ and the profane noun ‘bastard’ show the change in the narrator’s attitude towards the relationship. It also conveys the unstable mental state of Havisham and exposes her uncertainty and ambivalence. The cacophony also shows the narrators anger directed towards this unnamed ‘bastard’; this anger has replaced what we can infer to be affection from metonymical phrases such as ‘a white veil’ and ‘honeymoon’ Cacophony is also used in the last stanza coupled with half rhyme. Duffy uses a series of words - ‘awake, hate, face, cake, and break’ – to convey the mood of the poem.

Shakespeare juxtaposes both the characters as he shows Macbeth hallucinating about Banquo’s ghost, while Lady Macbeth tries to protect the situation. This is shown in the following quote, “Prithee see there! Behold! look! Lo!

Romeo’s personality takes sharp turns throughout the play as rash decisions are made and their consequences start to take form. Shakespeare portrays Romeo’s impulsivity through his attitudes toward Rosaline and Juliet, as well as his change in tone and humour throughout the play. Shakespeare sets the stage with an atmosphere full of unbalance and tension to drive Romeo to make impulsive decisions, leading the plot to spiral out of control and Romeo to bring his own demise. In the play, Romeo seeks the attention

Macbeth’s hamartia is his excessive ambition to become King, which leads to paranoia, and then leads to his death. The Fatal Flaw in Shakespearian tragedies is what classifies the play under that genre. Whilst there is death and sadness in his other plays, to be sorted with his Tragedies the plays must end in the main character’s death brought upon them due to their own faults.

Macbeth Power corrupts. A simple truth, oft repeated. However, for Macbeth, that truth became all too real, as he became corrupted simply to attain power. At the beginning of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, the title character is a Thane in Scotland, a high rank. On his journey home from war, he and his friend Banquo encounter three witches, who appear, as Banquo describes them, as “women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.”

The steps in which Oliver Cromwell rose to power are quite different and unique. Upon arrival of the English Civil War, Cromwell was an inexperienced and unproven soldier. Cromwell quickly gained military abilities and became a powerful military commander who led more than ten-thousand troops, all in just eight years . From military to politics, Cromwell was named Lord Protector in 1653 until his death in 1658 . As the head of England, Cromwell changed the constitution and the structure of the government.

Shakespeare's Macbeth includes the power that affects over a person who has rose to a post authority. Influenced by unchecked power, Macbeth takes events that have serious and devastating results for himself and for different characters in the play. When Macbeth has presented an act in which he utilizes control for negative ends, he discovers it is progressively harder to limit himself from perverted use of force. Eventually, it’s his failure to recognize the adaptive and maladaptive elements of force from each other that keeps him from understanding his potential significance.