To Tamora's surprise, Titus tells her that Demetrius and Chiron already murdered his daughter. He explains in detail that her sons "ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue" (Shakespeare V
He is the mastermind behind his plan and he returns to court with one plan in mind, which is vengeance. He states in the opening lines of the play that the Duke poisoned his wife "Because thy purer part would not consent/Unto his palsy-lust, for old men lustful" (Middleton I
For example, rather than think about the state of affairs at court, he would rather his: sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O. God, God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of the world! (Shakespeare I
Elizabethan Revenge Within Hamlet William Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet and was first acted upon between 1600 and 1601. (Hamlet: The Play by Shakespeare) the play very intimately tracks the dramatic customs of revenge in Elizabethan theater
One film reviewer noted that the characters are merely stock figures, to encourage the viewers to see themselves as part of the pounding action on screen: "Shia LaBeouf is back as Sam, the precocious teen who gave hope to nerds everywhere in 2007's Transformers that they too could get the beautiful girl, if only they had the right alien species parked in their garage. Now he's headed off to college leaving behind said beautiful girl, Mikaela (Megan Fox), who spends her days working on cars and bikes by artfully draping herself across them in Daisy Dukes that make Jessica Simpson seem modest" (Sharkey 2009)
But I do accept that Bay is unique. No one can top him for telling a story with such striking, shrieking incoherence" (Travers 2009)
Of course, part of the association of madness and revenge also has to do with Shakespeare's original source, "Amleth." "The original story of Amleth is very similar to Shakespeare's play in broad outline: Feng murders his brother out of jealousy and marries Gerutha (Amleth's mother); Amleth pretends to be witless to save himself" (Best 2001)
Because Hamlet claims he was mad, when he mistook Polonius for a rat, and stabbed Polonius behind the arras, he disavows responsibility for his actions, and thus Laertes' responsibility for enacting vengeance for his father. However, in the Elizabethan era, to be an avenger was to take on a new identity, at the expense of one's old identity -- to be an avenger was a necessary, but not a pleasant task, to be a kind of scourge of God (Pennington 23)
Being chased out by the family and eventually shot by another group of humans, the monster renounces humanity and swears revenge on Dr. Frankenstein who has brought him into the world speaking, "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?" (Shelley, 2000, p
there is a broad contrast between Hamlet and Laertes, who rushes headlong to his revenge, and is determined to have it though allegiance, conscience, grace and damnation stand in his way." (Bradley 142) This difference between Laertes and Hamlet raises the question as to why Hamlet takes so long and undergoes such as arduous process of self-examination to take his revenge
" (ibid) Another critic, Normal Council, also concurs with this view of Laertes and describes his "single-minded commitment to honorable revenge." (Council N
To this point I stand, That both the words I give to negligence, Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my father."(Hibbard, G
The medieval, chivalric code of honor, with its emphasis on lineage, allegiance to one's lord and violence, evolved into an honor code that was both more moral and political in that it began to emphasize the individual conscience and allegiance to the state. (Terry 1070) This theory sheds an important light on the difference between Hamlet's and Laertes' view of revenge