Jealousy In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare’s and Pacino’s texts both depict Richard’s downfall due to his lack of conscience and virtues in his ambitious quest for power to reflect the beliefs of a Providential and secular society respectively. As such, Shakespeare's use of stichomythia and rhetorical question “Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?” accentuates the lack of compassion and morality in Richard’s persuasive abilities to emotionally manipulate Anne to accept him as a suitor in his path to attain greatness. With Richard’s gratification of his achievement, Shakespeare illustrates the tyrant within Richard as his moral conscience diminishes due to over-ambition, hence reflecting the harsh Machiavellian politics in the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare’s underlying message on over-ambition is further exemplified through the dissolution of Richard’s unjust reign and mental stability through the death imagery in “It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What do I fear? Myself?”. Richard’s unstable mind in the ghosts’ precession, encapsulates Shakespeare’s message of the ramifications of sacrilegious acts whilst asserting God’s divine retribution on any form of theomachy ambition. In accordance to Shakespeare’s illustration of the fall of man due to ambition,

Upon Richard's return to England, he learns of the events that had transpired in his absence. At first his own arrogance allows him to believe that since it is his God given right to rule as King, he will be protected. But then just as quickly, Richard's arrogance turns into despair upon the realization that Henry has gained support of the nobles and the people of England. Henry and Richard finally meet at Ramparts Castle leading to the climax of the play. Henry demands retribution for the allocation of his families' possessions and

Richard, the main character of the Shakespeare’s play, Richard III is portrayed as socially destructive and politically over-ambitious. His destructive potential is depicted by the way he relates with the other protagonists in the play and also by what he confesses as his intentions.

Since Richard cannot do anything about his deformity and ugliness he turns his bitterness to ambition and lays the groundwork for his plan to betray King Edward IV. Richard tells the audience, “plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, by drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, to set my brother Clarence and the King in deadly hate against the other; and if King Edward be as true and just as I am subtle, false, and treacherous, this day should Clarence closely be mewed up, about a prophecy, which says that G OF Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be” (1.1.32-40). In these lines, Richard reveals his plan that he will turn Clarence and King Edward against each other so Edward will banish Clarence to the tower because he believes Clarence will be his murderer. Richard will do this through declaring a prophecy that this will be so. Richard explains that this will work because King Edward is as just as Richard is treacherous and Richard will use that against King Edward to cause his and Clarence’s demise. It is not known whether the character Richard would have revealed more about his plan this early in the play because he is interrupted by Clarence. Richard ends the speech with the lines, “dive thoughts down to my soul, here Clarence comes” (1.1.41), which basically means that he better keep

    According to many, Shakespeare intentionally portrays Richard III in ways that would have the world hail him as the ultimate Machiavel.  This build up only serves to further the dramatic irony when Richard falls from his throne.  The nature of Richard's character is key to discovering the commentary Shakespeare is delivering on the nature of tyrants.  By setting up Richard to be seen as the ultimate Machiavel, only to have him utterly destroyed, Shakespeare makes a dramatic commentary on the frailty of tyranny and such men as would aspire to tyrannical rule.

Jealousy is a powerful emotion that can blind oneself from identifying the truth. Shakespeare heavily emphasizes this theme throughout the drama Othello, especially through the actions of characters. In the play the heinous antagonist, Iago, uses each character’s jealousy to deceive that person and manipulate the truth. His false promises and deceitfulness bring to the demise of many of the main characters in the play, including the protagonist, Othello. Othello could not have been deceived if it were not for his powerful jealousy. Therefore, Shakespeare is telling us that jealousy is an ugly trait that can hide the truth, which in turn causes many problems between characters in the play.

Hatred can cause tension and competition between people. In Romeo and Juliet, The characters show their hate in many different ways. Act one and two of the play show how much hatred there is between the Capulets and Montagues. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare portrays hatred as a competitive force.

Romeo and Juliet was a classic romance novel about passion, love and tragedy, written and first acted in 1595. According to Alan Durband, many versions of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet all relate to Shakespeare's understanding of early life in Verona. Romeo, a Montague, falls in love with Juliet, a Capulet, because he is romantically inclined. The Capulets and Montagues are feuding households His impulsivity caused a lot of people to die and experience emotional pain. Falling in love with Juliet was the event that started a chain reaction.

It's easier to hate than love somebody. No man is perfect, nor is any woman. It is easier to see what is wrong with them fundamentally than what is fundamentally right with them. In Romeo and Juliet three physical conflicts occur between characters. Mercutio fights Tybalt for Romeo's honor, Tybalt fights Romeo for hatred of his kin and Paris fights Romeo out of hate and grief. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ,through Romeo’s actions, Shakespeare develops the theme that love is more powerful than hate.

Richard kills his own brother because he feels it is necessary if he is going to take the throne, and to hide his motives he is quite adept at putting up facades of love. Early on in the play Richard is talking to his brother Clarence regarding his imprisonment, telling him that “...your imprisonment shall not be long. I will deliver you or else lie for you...simple, plain clarence, I do love thee so that i will shortly send thy soul to heaven” (Richard-I. i. 117-23). To prevent Clarence from interfering with his elaborate plan to steal the throne, he is going to kill him. Richard emphasizes his lack of morality by doing whatever he deems necessary to take the throne, with no regard to who he has to kill. By appearing to be a loving brother, he takes suspicion off of himself for when Clarence is killed. When the murderers Richard hires to kill Clarence

Jealousy is an individual showing envy of someone or what they have. In Shakespeare’s tragic play Othello, jealousy plays a major role throughout the tragedy. Iago, Othello 's ancient , acts as the antagonist and is very manipulative. Iago envy of Othello’s position of power causes issues between Othello and Desdemona. His premeditated motives are used in the tragedy to manipulate the other characters. Iago’s wicked actions of revenge causes destruction in the play.

Shakespeare’s tragedy Richard III, features an especially morbid scene in which Richard the Duke of Gloucester woos Lady Anne. By seducing Lady Anne, Gloucester gains the confidence he needs to put the other events of the plot into motion and it further develops his character and villainous persona. By having Gloucester get away with a seemingly impossible task, given that Anne despises him, the audience becomes encaptivated with the main character and another person becomes under the curse that is Richard’s ego.

In his famed Richard III, William Shakespeare chronicles, albeit with considerable artistic license, the meteoric rise and similarly swift fall of the work’s eponymous tyrant – Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Throughout the tragedy, the playwright portrays Richard, a self-proclaimed Machiavellian and the discontented brother of the newly crowned king, as exactly the sort of cunning and ambitious man capable of succeeding in his plot, proclaimed earlier in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 3, to “set the murderous Machiavel to school” (Shakespeare 3.2.193). Yet in actuality, despite such professed adherence to the infamous work The Prince, Richard tragically and repeatedly deviates from the spirit of Machiavelli’s teaching and, in so doing, all but

Shakespeare adapts these tenants to construct a power thirsty character. Consequently, while the London elite was introduced to these ideals, Shakespeare shaped the overall plot of the play to exemplify the discussed the power quest introduced by Machiavelli. This results in Richard’s actions that lead him to kill his brother and manipulate his family into getting the throne.

first of all the characters in the play to be attacked by the "green -