Queen of the Damned Essays

“The Vampire Diaries” Season 6, episode 6 titled “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get” is mostly about Damon’s (Ian Somerhalder) return to his family and friends. However, the Salvatore vampire’s return was not a pleasant one because he finds out what Elena (Nina Dobrev) did to her memories and he ends up in a life-threatening situation. Spoiler Alert: This feature contains major spoilers on “The Vampire Diaries” Season 6, episode 6 titled “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get.” Tripp

develop. In Act I the Ghost is introduced and has a conversation with young Hamlet. Hamlet and the Ghost both express their feelings for Claudius and the Queen through the language they use. The language the Ghost and Hamlet use, such as diction and imagery help the reader further understand the contempt the Ghost and Hamlet have for Claudius and the Queen. Imagery is the use of the five senses to create a picture in the reader’s mind. In this passage the Ghost uses the sense of sight to show Hamlet how

that he would murder his father and marry his mother. He moved away from his, not known to him, adoptive father in order to protect him and wound up murdering his birth father, King Laios of Thebes. After Laios’ death, Oedipus married the widowed queen Jocasta, not knowing that she is his birth mother. Some believe, because he was ignorant of his crimes, that he is innocent. This is simply not the case. Just because a person does not know they committed a crime, does not mean said person is innocent

Went to war with the natives on their own land D1 sold natives as slaves christopher columbus was a hero A2 He discovered new land B2 He was brave and courageous C2 Accomplished every goal on every voyage D2 sailed damned seas A1: When christopher columbus discovered the land and found out that they were uncivilized people he quickly started to abuse them. The natives gave them food, water, and a place to live on their land. But sadly columbus and his crew still took

sex. This is how Oedipus ignorant. After discovering the prophecy he runs away from home, killing a man in the process and marrying the previous queen. After marrying the queen he has four children. And even after he hears the prophecy he tries to say that the people who told him the prophecy are lying to him. After Teiresias tells Oedipus that he is damned to this prophecy, Oedipus say the following “I didn not know then you would talk like a fool-or it would have been long before i called you; How

She was scared that the guilt she had would never go away. “Out, damned spot, out, I say” (Shakespeare 5.1.31). When Lady Macbeth says “Out, damned spot, out,” she is saying how she wants the blood off her hands. Meaning she is feeling responsible for killing Duncan. Therefore, Lady Macbeth has her downsides in the play also. Parts where she genuinely feels

earthly or if women were the source of evil. Queen Elizabeth I is an example. She ruled England between 1588 and 1632. She was a very influential women during the time Mariology took over. She had to uphold intense societal standards. The kingdom obsessed over her virginity and her love life. She claimed herself as the virgin but she had a few “boy toys” here and there. Since she was 34 and childless she was a slut to her kingdom because she was not a good queen. “Sex without progeny was unacceptable,

Thus, the Ghost portrays the Queen as evil, easily manipulated by desire, and superficial for remarrying only for lust. Furthermore, Hamlet states, “O most pernicious woman! / O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain” (I.v.ll.105-106). Hence, in this quote Hamlet portrays his mother as evil and a villain, as he disapproves of her choice to remarry after his father’s

before the tears in his mother's eyes had dried, she married her brother-in-law, Claudius. Here, Claudius represents the characteristic of "befriending the hero only to deceive him/her later". He didn't marry the Queen out of love, he married her out of greed. Now that he had deceived the Queen, he had to deceive Hamlet in order to kill

personality. Once again, throughout the whole play, Hamlet shows wide mood swings that last from a few hours to a few days. The major mood swing is in Act 3 Scene 4 when he explodes with anger towards his mother the Queen, the cause of the mood swing was triggered by the hatred he felt about the Queen marrying her dead husband's brother. “Look here upon this picture.Nor sense to essay was never so thralled,” (Shakespeare 93). This was the big statement he yelled at the

nightly patrols. Having memorized their movement patterns, Robin tells Oberon that these "Damnèd spirits …/… willfully themselves exile from light and must for aye consort with black-browed night" (3.2.403-408). Robin knows that ghosts tend to move at nighttime because they prefer the dark, knowledge that requires extensive observation. He also holds some grudge against ghosts, hence his calling them "Damnèd spirits”. It is typical for someone to study the whereabouts of a group they detest if they

Hamlet by telling him how Claudius killed, and robbed him “of crown” and “queen”. The King turns Hamlet against Claudius when he tells him exactly how he was killed. His references to the being killed by his brother alludes to the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible. The King further alludes to the Bible when he calls compares himself to an angel. He tells Hamlet to “let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest,” (1.5.82-83). This references the motif of disease, in this case

Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare, the men’s will and their words shape the tragic hero’s destiny. In the play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus’s downfall was lead by his own choices. Oedipus had been raised by Polybus and Merope, the king and queen of Corinth. When he grew up, he learned about his prophecy which said he would kill his own father and marry his mother. Since he believed they were his birth parents, he was petrified. Othello did not want to hurt his parents so after hearing “all

Lady Macbeth pursued her goal of becoming queen, destroying everything in her path to get what she wanted. It did not matter to her what she had to do and she used many different methods to achieve her goal. In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth demonstrated that obsession, ambition, and madness caused destruction when moral restraints were cast aside. Lady Macbeth is very unlike her husband. She lacks feminism and has no feelings for others that are in her way. She calls upon spirts:

The belief of faith has been controversial for centuries, whether everything that has happened in life was meant to happen or whether choice is what leads to the future. Famous Greek Tragedian Sophocles wrote the world renowned play Oedipus Rex. In the story Oedipus Rex Oedipus is prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother. Which leads to a big question that is asked about the play, was it fate or was it free will that doomed Oedipus? Free will was Oedipus’s fate, which means that free will

assassin of the last king throughout Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex. Oedipus must look into the incident and reveal untold truths about both himself and the demise of the previous monarch. Oedipus reflects on his history, including how he fled the king and queen of Corinth, his house, and his family to avoid a horrible prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and wed his mother. Oedipus left Corinth and traveled to Thebes where he killed a stranger and his

The Ghost acknowledges the greediness of Claudius in listing off the things he has stolen from him “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand/Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched” (74-75). The day he was murdered, not only was his life taken, but, so was his role as king, and the love of his wife, the queen. This section shows the Ghosts' anguish and gives insight into Claudius’ personality. It becomes clear from the beginning of the Ghosts dialogue that his brother is not a good

the concept of deception is also a major part of the play and it’s mainly demonstrated through the character of King Claudius. Shakespeare portrays Claudius as manipulative character, who uses his intelligence to delude the nation of Denmark and queen Gertrude. In the beginning of the play, Claudius is shown as capable ruler who oath to support the people of Denmark. During his speech he uses the incidence of Hamlet's father death to create a unity and to get the people together as he stated, "to

difference between Iago and Lady Macbeth is that after everything she had done, she showed the audience her guilty conscience. Lady Macbeth says, “Out, damned spot” (Shakespeare 179)! Her guilty conscience made her constantly worry that the other characters would find out what had actually happened to King Duncan. Her ambition to kill Duncan to become queen nurtured her into doing evil throughout the play. Iago had no compassion for anyone, yet Lady Macbeth showed compassion for her

usurper. While talking to Hamlet, the ghost of his father says that “by a brother’s hand” the taking “Of life, of crown, of queen” is the cause (I.v.79-80). Claudius’ lack of the truth and the concealment of the reality of his traitorous deed leads Hamlet to become irrational. Hamlet struggles to believe if the appearance of the ghost was that of “a spirit of health or goblin damned”, due to the anguishes of the deceit he is a bystander to (I.iv.43). The shrewd deception of his uncle causes Hamlet to