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The Forgiveness In Suffering John Green once said, “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive” (Green). Louis (Louie) Zamperini, a World War II hero, knows this to be true better than anyone else. In the novel Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand, Zamperini is a mischievous runner in the 1936 Olympics who is later drafted into the United States Air Corps. On a mission, his plane crashes, leaving him and two other crewman stranded on a raft. After 47 days, Zamperini and Russell Allen Phillips (referred to as Phil) are captured by Japanese officials and shipped to camps where they became prisoners of war.
Romeo: We art in the future mine love. This sir thee see saved us from that corrupted society and that gent hath brought us to hither Juliet: What art you saying my sweet love?
Forgiveness Between Elizabeth and John Forgiveness. A word like forgiveness can solve any problem and give people a second chance. In the play The Crucible, farmer’s wife Elizabeth Proctor, is torn whether to forgive her husband, John Proctor or not. Set back in Salem, Massachusetts during the Puritan times, the play begins with teens girls conjuring spirits and dancing in the woods. When Reverend Parris watched this madness, a whirl of lies and unnecessary blame surrounds the girls.
“O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” ( Act 2, Scene 2,Line 33) This legendary quote is from the one and only book Romeo and Juliet by Williams Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is a book about lovers from opposing families. Their journey of love caused many deaths through the journey including theirs.
Forgiveness is an important quality that promotes peace of mind and allows people to put behind old grudges. People who carry grudges against others negatively impact their well-being as they become caught in a vicious cycle of resentment and bitterness. Thus, harbouring resentments keeps people emotionally unstable and prevents them from achieving inner peace. This idea is examined in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, and Dick Lourie’s poem “How do we forgive our fathers”.
Is it better to have forgiveness or to get revenge? Throughout The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Prospero displays both of these traits. As the play goes on more and more of her plan is revealed and it appears she wants revenge but in the end, she chose to forgive them. That is because there is more value in forgiving someone than getting revenge on them.
However, what happens when a character is the creation of another’s mind? Amy exists as an individual entity in the characters’ world in Flies with Honey. However, she is presented to the audience as a projection of Anna’s guilt and thus her characterisation is constructed on how Anna views Amy rather than Amy being someone with autonomous choices and actions. Such issues arise and are confronted in other theatrical texts.
The two tragedy plays of Antigone and Hamlet by Sophocles and Shakespeare, describe how far humans are to go when it comes to their loved ones. In the story of Antigone, Antigone has defied the order of not burying her brother Polyneices, believing that her brother should be buried. This sense of disobedience is seen throughout the story. In the story of Hamlet, Hamlet seeks for vengeance, similar to Antigone. Both characters face challenges with the rules put above them, risking to defy the rules, they both receive a different outcome.
Redemption, is the action, regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing debt. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, redemption is a common focus for the protagonist Hamlet, followed by Old King Fortinbras’ son, Fortinbras, and Laertes. These ambitious men embark on a quest for truth and redemption because of the loss of their father’s. In spite of the fluctuations in their quest, their journey for truth and redemption is successful because Fortinbras, Laertes and Hamlet all avenge their fathers’ deaths. Through Active Reversal, Fortinbras’ quest was successful, by Laertes’ Fear of Betrayal his quest to kill Hamlet was successful.
When people hear the name Shakespeare, words like poetic, master, intelligent and creative often flood the mind. He has created many masterpieces such as Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. Another play written by Shakespeare is titled The Tempest and was recently performed by the UW Oshkosh theatre. This show premiered on Thursday, April 26 and was held at the Fredric March Theatre at 7:30 pm. Throughout the play, a myriad of themes could be seen.
Throughout centuries famous literature have been known to share common themes in order to teach a moral lesson to audiences across time. Two pieces of famous literature that showcase this well are William Shakespeare 's work The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and August Wilson’s successful play Fences. Shakespeare’s play is set decades before Fences but the two still share similar themes, one of the most significant being the fruits of sin and forgiveness. In The Tragedy of Hamlet, Claudius murdered his brother, King Hamlet, in order to become king and marry the queen, Gertrude. In Fences, Troy Maxson commits adultery by cheating on his wife, Rose, and is left with a child to raise on his own after the pregnancy.
At first, the world is characterized as “vile” (4), but as the poem progresses, it is “the wise world” (13). However, the speaker is merely being ironic and it is likely that in actuality, he is saying the world is malicious. The following line, “and mock you with me after I am gone” (14) implies that the world will be using the relationship between the two to mock the subject after the speaker is dead. Although both sonnets are ones which contain an elegiac mood, they differ in regards to enduring love. In “Sonnet 71”, Shakespeare argues that love will end as soon as death approaches which evidently shakes the foundation of the theme of love.
In Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, revenge plays a major role in how the characters act. They base their actions off of getting revenge. Hamlet, Laertes, and Young Fortinbras all are trying to get revenge for their fathers. All three of the characters use different methods for getting revenge and they all get different results. Shakespeare uses these three characters to show that revenge can consume you and that is all that you want and he shows how harmful it can be.
The Tempest can be seen as a play about reconciliation, forgiveness, and mercy. However, while it is clear that the theme of forgiveness is at the heart of the drama, it is unclear to what extent mercy is given. An examination of Caliban and Ariel and their representations of Prospero’s struggle illustrates that there is little, if any, true forgiveness and reconciliation in The Tempest. Prospero’s actions from the beginning of the play seem to contradict his ultimate aim to forgive those of have wronged him. Prospero seizes the opportunity for revenge with the help of his magic and good fortune.
Though both poems are exquisite expositions of love the question remains as to which one demonstrates the most superb love. Shakespeare 's “Sonnet 116” begins by depicting his version if the perfect love. According to Shakespeare, love must be a “marriage of two minds”. This ideology in itself exhibits a higher level love than common man could ever experience. For love to truly be Neoplatonic, it must merge every aspect of a relationship beyond the physical.