Torments of the Traitor Essays

In Chaucer’s, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” we as readers get to experience the story of a Knight’s journey to find the answer to the question: What is it that every woman desires? The Knight is given the task by the queen with permission from her husband. This story is told by the Wife of Bath who is introduced to us in “The General Prologue” by Chaucer. In the prologue we get insight as to who the Wife of Bath is by her experiences as a woman who has been married five times and how she wants authority

These proclaimed monsters are violent, fraudulent, sodomites, or traitors. Seven circles deep, this circle has been divided into three rings. First is occupied by those who were violent towards other people and property as well as murderers. sank into a river of boiling blood and fire. In the Middle Ring, the poets see

The ninth circle of Hell, for example, is reserved for traitors, who are considered the most heinous of all sinners. By contrast, the first circle is reserved for virtuous pagans, who are not technically guilty of any sin, but are still excluded from the joys of Heaven because they lack the benefit of Christian

The Burial Rights of a Traitor Both in fiction and in present day reality, controversies regarding the treatment of enemies and traitors exist on a large scale. Whether the person betrayed his family and friends or whether she broke the king’s law, there are consequences to actions. The specific consequences differ according to an individual’s worldview and his or her position in society. Such arguments are present in an ancient Greek drama, Sophocles’ play Antigone (442 BCE), and were debated in

about the deaths, Dante asks to see “the traitor, who sees only with one eye / and rules the land that someone...wishes he’d never fed his eyes upon.” At this request, Medicina brings a man by the name of Curio over. He also brings Mosca over. Curio has no tongue, as it is “hacked off as far down as the throat,” and Mosca suffers from the loss of his hands. Medicina asks Dante to remember him upon his return to earth. It is revealed that Mosca suffers the torments that surround him because he “was the

The king had ordered that the remains of the ‘traitor’, Polyneices, not to be given a rightful burial. The king had proclaimed that whomever shall try to bury or utter a prayer in honor of Polyneices will be sentenced to death. The protagonist Antigone, who happens to be the sister of the fallen Polyneices

Kasey Otazu 11118 Midterm The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a bestseller written by author Sherman Alexie it tells the story of Junior. Junior is growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. He is determined to take his future into his own hands because his fear of ending up like the people around him. The book follows important themes such as managing misery with humor, chasing hopes and aspirations, racism, the support of family, alcoholism and living in between two cultures

It is easy to see Medea as a betrayed wife and to forget that she is also vindictive and heartless. How do you see Medea? Euripides’s Medea explores the conflict between a demigoddess and the male patriarchy amidst a breakdown of marital vows. Medea can be easily perceived to be a victim of Jason and the male dominant society through the misogynism she suffers. Medea’s persuasive rhetoric, along with the complete support of The Chorus and The Nurse, positions the audience to align with her, having

a troubled mind. In the years since Frankenstein’s release many readers of the famous narrative have come to regard Victor Frankenstein with little affection. They cite his selfish and reckless behavior, which frequently cause the misery which torments him. However, Victor’s self-centered nature, goes beyond simply a flaw of character, it is indicative of a deeper affliction, narcissistic personality disorder; or NPD. NDP is characterized by an over inflated sense of self, beyond what is developmentally

In the later parts of the poem, Virgil and Dante reach the cocytus. This is a giant place of traitors frozen in ice. While Dante is walking through the field of heads sticking out of the ice, he accidentally kicks one. Understandably, the sinner starts cussing Dante out for kicking him in the face. Dante wants to clear up the misunderstanding, but

indecision to kill King Duncan in favor of desired power and her exertion of continuous pressure targeted at breaking Macbeth's ethical ideals and moral compass. Macbeth struggles to conceive the possibility of murdering King Duncan, which is met by a torment of judgement and criticism by Lady Macbeth to coerce his actions for her own personal gain. As Macbeth starts to express his doubts about going through with the plan, Lady Macbeth responds, "Was the hope drunk / Wherein you dressed yourself?" (Shakespeare

dark soul because he torments the other guards and prisoners. The man Jesus healed is actually possessed, he called himself “Legion” because “for many demons had entered him” (Luke 8:26-39). Jesus also disseminates the demons on to another, but he chooses pigs because they already have no soul. The Warden Hal Moores Melinda’s symbolizes Judas. He signed the execution note after John had just cured his wife of cancer after he promised to not do that. Like Judas he was a traitor because he made a promise

Creon, her uncle, ordered that no one was to bury her brother for he was seen as a traitor. She could not stand to see his body torn and eaten by the wild animals, so she did her best to bury him. Sophocles uses specific diction, to show that Antigone was punished for not respecting Creon, by respecting her dead brother, in this excerpt

Chase Barclay Dr. McGarrity Humanities-7 7 November 2014 Book Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey In The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, Cassie Sullivan tries to survive the 5th Wave, while trying to rescue her five-year-old brother, Sammy, from a military compound run by The Others. These five waves have been run by a group of aliens called, The Others, who have been trying to inhabit Earth. Cassie is trying to go to the compound, Camp Haven, where The Others are putting their plan (The 5th Wave) into

one of mine. Even when I was too young to read them, my older sister would sit with me for hours on long car drives and read the series to me while I sat and ate up every word. Some of the favorite moments of my childhood were when my sister would torment me with juicy plot revelations. A

The first circle of Hell is Limbo and that where Virgil is from. They do not suffer any physical torment, but they will never see God’s presence. A few people actually left Limbo when Jesus came, which were Abel, Noah, Moses, Abram, David, Israel with his father and children, and Rachel. He saw poets like Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. He saw Electra

Dante Alighieri was once a White Guelph of Florence, who called for freedom from papal rule, until 1301, when he was banished from his home town due to the Black Guelphs. This banishment from his beloved home is what caused many of Alighieri's bias towards different people. This bias is clearly demonstrated towards some in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Inferno through the author’s use of different literary devices. Alighieri creates a fictional character, Dante, who travels through different parts

help him get what he wants. Such is the attraction of power; he knows that those who sign over their souls will do so regardless of their consequences. When the Old Man persuades Faustus to repent, Mephistophilis threatens Faustus by saying, “Thou traitor, Faustus. I [Mephistophilis] arrest thy [Faustus] soul For disobedience to my [Mephistophilis] sovereign lord [Lucifer]; Revolt, or I’ll inpiecemeal tear thy [Faustus] flesh” (Marlowe 51). Maurice A. Hunt suggests that when the “Old Man tried... to

the overall structure of Hell and how the punishment for the sinners (perfectly) reflects upon the sin. To the modern reader, Hell likely seems more like an act of cruelty than divine justice, much less a product of God’s love. At first,the torments that the sinners are subjected to seems extreme and grotesque. But, as the poem continues to progress, it becomes quite clear the there is a perfect balance within God’s justice as the degree of each sinner’s punishment perfectly reflects upon

had a couple strong elements to her argument, but she presents even stronger ideas in her argument with Creon over her attempted burial of her brother. During this argument, Creon constantly points out how Antigone is breaking the law and burying a traitor (Polyneices) who slayed her honorable brother (Eteocles). Antigone refutes his points through a strong assessment that stresses important ideas that many could understand as being reasonable. For example, Antigone refuted Creon's statement about her