Honor killing

as Macbeth’s influence spreads. His lack of honor and swelling ambitions are noted by the worldly and otherworldly forces and plan to punish him. The storms and visions also represent Macbeth’s internal struggle as his ambition and guilty conscience battle for dominance over his actions. In the end the ambitions wins and wickedness and allowed to take root in both Macbeth and in…

course of action, Romeo and Juliet create and try to preserve new identities as adults apart from the feud, but it blocks their every attempt.”(Kahn). It shows how a feud between families to hold a place in society can destroy those in it not only killing Romeo and Juliet but both Tybalt Lady Montague and Romeo’s best friend Mercutio. The tragedy of the play is a conflict between the forces of what the world wants people to do and what people want to do…

of Athens to be unreasonable. Orestes, who murdered his own mother was proven not guilty. The votes were equal for both sides, resulting in Athena having the vote that would be the final verdict. In Apollo’s defense for reasoning as to why Orestes killing his mother was acceptable was “The mother of what is called her child is not the parent, but the nurse of the newly-sown embryo. The one who mounts is the parent, whereas she, as a stranger for a stranger, preserves the young plant, if the god…

of Julius Caesar. Taking place in Rome when honor, valor, and triumph were the most important values; Brutus, Cassius, and other Romans considered suicide an honorable way to die. However, Hamlet, which takes place in more conservative late medieval Denmark, where suicide is frowned upon and even, deemed a sin. Hamlet, like Julius Caesar, is also…

uses to tell the story and the cluelessness and beliefs that so many of the characters have. The characters in Chronicle all have a strong belief in honor that is a central factor in their lives and they are held up, by both each other and themselves, to the standards of machismo and marianismo. By looking at those beliefs, it can be seen how honor, machismo, and marianismo contributed to Pedro, Pablo, and Purisima becoming the type of people who hurt those who stray from the path that their…

stronger than those forged by loyalty. Initially, Shakespeare presents the idea that family honor is superior to all. He does this through the tempered words of Tybalt, “This, by his voice should be a Montague… Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, to strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”(1.5) In this scene Tybalt is willing to throw away his legal liability by killing Romeo, simply to enforce honor upon his family name. Later, Lord Capulet outbursts when he learns that Juliet does not wish…

that his honor was justified. Not only was MacBeth well-respected for his actions during battle as a Captain, but for having stopped a traitor from Scotland as well, Macbeth was named the new Thane of Cawdor, "Go pronounce [Thane of Cawdor's] death, / And with his former title greet Macbeth" (Shakespeare 15 75-76). For the King of Scotland to not had merely acknowledged Macbeth's actions in respect, but to also pronounce him as a Thane of Cawdor reproves his high honor; it would be an honor to…

from war, Titus buried his valiant sons “in peace and honor” since they were “Rome’s readiest champions” (1.1.150-152). However, when Titus killed his son Mutius for blocking his way to Lavinia, he deemed Mutius to be an “unworthy brother” and an “unworthy son” because he has “dishonored [him]” and “all [of his] family” (1.1.300-351). This indicates that Titus’ code of honor operates according to the battlefield, where his sons must die in honor of fighting for Rome, and not rebelling against…

the first unit of African American troops to battle in the American Civil War. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who is played by Mathew Broderick is the commander, who after surviving a viscous attack by playing dead in the Battle of Antietam is giving the honor of commanding the first African American regiment. In the movie Shaw’s school mate Thomas Searles a free born African American who is played by Andre Braugher, excitedly joins the regiment when he hears that Robert would be commanding it. It is…

satisfaction after killing one of your enemies is consequently strong that it is simple to delay the process. In the case when Hector begs for his rights of burial he says, “Achilles, by your own soul and by your parents, do not allow the dogs to mutilate my body by the Greek ships” (433.375-377). He goes on to bribe Achilles and insist for him to “accept the gold and bronze ransom [his] father and mother will give [him] and send [his] body back home to be burned in [his] honor by the Trojans…