...“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love” (John Le Carre). In George Orwell’s 1984, the theme of betrayal is evident throughout the novel’s plot and is a main contribution to the overall mood of loneliness and alienation. The progression of betrayal in 1984 begins with Winston being incapable to fit in with the Party’s thoughtless nature and ends with Winston’s final act of self-betrayal. Winston and his equally rebellious partner, Julia, realize their inescapable capture, but hold onto the hope that the Party would never be able to change their feelings. Believing that they will never end up betraying each other, they conclude that the Party can only, “make you say anything-anything- but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you” (Orwell 166)....
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...betrayed you? In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, There is different emotions throughout act 3. These emotions portray what happens. These themes of confusion and betrayal develop the irony, tone, and mood in act 3 scene 1. Two element’s Shakespeare uses in Hamlet is situational and dramatic irony. A example of this is when Hamlet expresses how he feels about ophelia and says “ You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not..” This shows act of betrayal when Hamlet tells ophelia he never loved her when she thought he did and was blindsided by him. Another example of irony is dramatic irony when the king and Polonius are spying on Hamlet and ophelia conversation. This shows act of confusion of what’s wrong with Hamlet as they have seen the betrayal before their eyes. In addition to irony, Shakespeare uses tone to develop the themes....
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...evolving and developing. It was first written by author Nennius, but Sir Thomas Malory, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, and Alfred Lord Tennyson contributed to the legend and expands it even more. They introduced new characters and the different aspects of them into the legend, along with the themes. One of the most important themes depicted by the characters is the theme of betrayal. Using this theme, authors let characters both develop and decline throughout the legend. In the Arthurian legend, betrayals of characters such as Lancelot, Mordred, and Viviane result in the characters’ death in the end. Lancelot's betrayal is the center...
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...the greatest achievements for William Shakespeare. The play is filled with many conflicts between each other’s different personalities; all wanting power and victory. Betrayal, in Hamlet is surrounding everyone with the air they breathe in Denmark. Hamlet shows the theme of betrayal out of the these three characters: Ophelia, Gertrude, and Hamlet. Ophelia has taken her own life over a man who has betrayed her. When Ophelia’s father, Polonius forces her to hand him the love letters Hamlet has sent to her, right then and there Hamlet thinks she has betrayed him for doing that act. But in reality Polonius has betrayed his own daughter, because of going their her own personal belongings. Hamlet starts rumors...
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...Betrayal in Flowering Judas Judas Iscariot, the disciple, hanged himself from a tree after betraying Jesus and giving him a kiss. The tree in which he hung from is known as the “Judas Tree.” In the short story, “Flowering Judas,” written by Katherine Anne Porter, the title is related to this religious event of betrayal, murder, and denial in history. The two main characters in the story are Braggioni and Laura. Braggioni is a cruel, powerful leader of revolutionaries in and around Mexico City. Laura is a young 22-year-old woman from America, taking up residence in Mexico. The most known theme in this short story is betrayal. All of the characters in the piece are guilty of betrayal, but Laura seems to struggle most. Laura is a young woman living in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. A beautiful, but reserved young woman, I feel as if she is somewhat cold. Her tasks include running messages for the revolution and taking drugs to political prisoners. This story is a catalogue of Laura’s thoughts during this time. She is being courted by Braggioni, a leader of the revolution, with a wife whom he is treated poorly by. Every evening he comes to Laura’s house to sing to her. Afraid of what he might do, Laura keeps it to herself that his actions and even his appearance irk her to her very core. The first paragraph of the story sets up the tension that is developed in the remainder of the story. It contrasts Laura’s dedication and Braggioni’s exploitation. It is important to...
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...Michael Martin Donald Partain ENGL 102-01 September 6, 2013 Betrayal in “Gorilla, My Love” In the short story “Gorilla, My Love” by Toni Cade Bambara a young girl named Hazel feels betrayed by adults who do not treat children with respect and honesty. In the story Hazel is riding in the car with Granddaddy Vale, Hunca Bubba, and her little brother, Baby Jason. Bubba believes he has started a new chapter in his life, so he wants his family to refer to him as Jefferson Winston Vale. He shows them a picture of his girlfriend. Seeing that picture triggered a memory of when she went to the movies to see Gorilla, My Love. Seeing that picture of Bubba’s girlfriend reminded her of how betrayed she felt from the movie. Bambara shows that Children’s exact understanding of the truth shows their childishness, as adults often find white lies essential to avoid hurt feelings, causing a sense of betrayal in the children’s minds. Hazel feels that betrayal can come from adults in the society. When Hazel went to the movies to see the film Gorilla, My Love she became disappointed when she found out the movie was not what she expected. She said, “So the movie come on and right away it's this churchy music and clearly not about no gorilla. Bout Jesus.” She felt betrayed as if the theatre betrayed her and lied to her. She thought the movie was going to actually be about gorillas, so Hazel didn’t expect it to be a religious movie. Hazel, thinking she is always right, went back to the ticket...
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...faithful or unfaithful actions towards their family and kingdom. In their somewhat parallel lives, King Lear and Gloucester are driven to despair and madness by their familial relationships. Sibling rivalry, betrayal of fathers by daughters and by son and rash misunderstandings of a loyal son and a dutiful daughter, are the roots of chaos in the play (Bloom 15). King Lear and Gloucester’s downfalls are essentially caused by the ‘bad’ child’s betrayal and later resolved by the ‘good’ child’s help and support. Shakespeare introduced Cordelia as caring and loyal daughter, who is profoundly devoted to family (Bonheim 41). When it is her turn to publically confess her love for Lear, she explains in her own defense: “Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply when I shall wed, That lord whose had must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters To love my father all.” (I.i 95-104). Cordelia’s speech makes it clear that her two sisters are evil and unfaithful by questioning their exaggerated love confession to Lear. In doing so, Cordelia reveals that Goneril and Regan’s hypocritical love for Lear is nothing more than flattery and that she is the only one who truly loves him, thus expressing her loyalty to her family....
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...What is meaning of existence? That may be the question we’ve all asked ourselves at some point in our lives. Kundera, just like the rest of us all, ask the same question in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. However, he further examines the state of existence and the cause of our suffering using contrastive analysis of lightness and weight. For Kundera, existence is never what has already happened, what is happening now or what will happen in the future. It contains all the possibilities in our lives. When facing poles in our lives—lightness and weight, soul and body, loyalty and betrayal—the choice that people make, with the price of our own lives, was merely one possibility of existence. The opposition of lightness and weight is an analogy Kundea uses to express the state of existence. It is one of the many pairs of poles in our lives but the one that expresses people’s different degrees of dependence on the external world and the different levels of sense of existence. It truly captures the reason why people suffer and struggle in life—only being able to choose one possibility when a meaningful existence is the one that contains all possibilities. And thus it is a fair comparison to use lightness and weight for categorizing existence. According to the fact that “we all need someone to look at us” (269), Kundera divided people into four categories based on “the kind of look they wish to live under” (269). The first kind, yearn for “the look of the public” (269), like singers...
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...Questions 1. Discuss the theme of betrayal in “Secrets”. Betrayal is seen all throughout the short story. Betrayal is seen in Aunt Mary’s relationship with the nephew, with the love of her life, and God. Aunt Mary believes the nephew betrays her by reading her private letters, but that is much exaggerated because he is only a child. What makes his “betrayal” so bothersome are the secrets in those letters. Aunt Mary felt betrayed by her love because he left her for the priesthood, meaning she also feels betrayed by God. God took her love and took away her chance at happiness, making her lose her connections to God and her faith. 2. To what extent is Aunt Mary the cause of her own problems? Aunt Mary is very reserved and secretive, and it could be her secretiveness that ruined her relationship with her nephew. There was nothing wrong with him reading the letters, but since she has so much to hide, it hurt her and made her exaggerate an issue that cause the ending to a good relationship between the two. 3. In what ways does the exaggeration of the nephew reading the private letters, show that Aunt Mary is still not over her lover? When Aunt Mary calls the nephew dirt, the audience can see that she is not over her lover because this reminder of him seems to irk her and make her angry. She can’t get over the betrayal she felt, so she takes out her anger the nephew and lashes out on him, because she might actually still love this man and hates the reminder of it. ...
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...Backstabbing the Ones we Love The book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein is a book about betrayal. On Dictionary.com the word betrayal is define as to be unfaithful in guarding, maintaining, fulfilling, or to disappoint the expectation or hope of other. Amir is constantly betraying the ones he loves especially his best friend Hassan one of Amir most loyal and caring friend. Amir throughout the book seems to accept the fact he hurts the ones he loves and even though Amir knows he is in the wrong constantly continues to betray and hurt his only friend Hassan and does these throughout the book. First, Amir betrays Hassan by denying his friendship in the book and being a jerk to him to make himself feel better. Amir betrays Hassan by denying his friendship. In the book Amir was asked if Hassan was his friend but instead of saying yea he just tell them that he is just his servant. This shows how crappy a friend Amir really is and how he is so embarrassed to let people know that Hassan is his friend. A real friend is proud to be your friend and wants people to know. What a betrayal on Hassan and Amir Friendship, a real friend is always your friend no matter what and isn’t your friend just sometimes or whenever he wants. Amir enjoys being a jerk to Hassan to make himself feel better. Amir knows that Hassan can’t read so he makes him feel stupid but making him read a book to show that he is superior to him. Amir also started to throw pomegranates at Hassan just because he is mad...
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...reader develops a sense of awe as Iago’s plan comes to fruition throughout the text. Iago, being a Machiavel, does not hold any inhibitions or stops to accomplish his goal, while Othello is doubtful and wavers quite a bit. The betrayal of Iago’s plot is rife with planning and cunning, and certainly drives the plot forward. Yet, there is a betrayal of Othello that begins what will be Iago’s success. Othello marries Desdemona early after their meeting. Desdemona confesses to her father that she does “love the Moor” Othello, and tells the story of how she came to fall in love with Othello. Othello declares his love for Desdemona as well. This is where the betrayal lays—though Othello affirms throughout the beginning of the text that he is in love with Desdemona, he wavers in his devotion, and does not trust her as a husband would. When the doubts are planted in his mind that she may be cheating on him with Cassio, he does not go to his love and put to rest his doubts. Instead, they fester in his mind until he is driven mad. He betrayed Desdemona and his apparent love for her in this. Iago—the notorious, clever fox of a man that brought about the downfall of Othello. His plans are characteristically dastardly and shrewd, well-thought out. His betrayal of Othello starts with the planting of doubt in Othello’s mind. Iago witnesses how familiar Desdemona and Cassio are in greeting, and hatches his plot to portray their simple, friendly relationship as one of lechery. First, though...
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...The first major event that happens is In Act 1 Scene 4 where Romeo attends a party at the Capulet household. At this party is where he meets Juliet and they both fall in love. This is an important event because during this scene is where Juliet finds out they both belong to rival families. Which sets up the idea of forbidden love because Juliet herself admits she fell in love with her worst enemy (Romeo) before she even knew who he was. The audience has to understand that the two cannot be in love due their feuding families. So when Juliet tells the nurse she has fallen for Romeo the audience must feel a sense of betrayal. Because that is what Juliet feels loving both her lover and family. But the audience must also feel excitement for her...
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...difficult reading these two stories however; I was able to understand them after going back and reviewing key points that explained the main idea. The story of King Arthur is based on romance and chivalry and it was difficult to read because it was written in old English as supposed to early Anglo-Saxon literature. This storie had a lot to do with the story of Othello because the plots are similar in some way. In King’s Arthur, The King discovers that his best Knight Lancelot is in love with his Queen Guenevere. That fact was clearly seen in the story when the Queen favors Lancelot above the other Kinights. “Queen Guenever had him in great favour above all other knights, and in return he was loyal to her above all other ladies and damsels all his life, and for love of her he did many deeds of arms, and saved her from the fire through his noble chivalry” (Malroy, 668). Once the King discovered that Lancelot betrayed his trust the King was deeply hurt. King Arthur lost focus of his Kingdom due to this betrayal leading to the fall of Camelot. In the other hand we have the story of Othello written in a totally different form. This type of literature is written in verse and made it quite difficult for me to read and...
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...William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Disney’s Lion King might seem to be two different stories. However, Hamlet and Simba have a lot in common. They both go through the hardships of their father’s death and a new king taking his place. They also have to face betrayal from many people that they are close to. The death of a parent would be enough tragedy for someone, but both Simba and Hamlet go through much more. The first acts of betrayal in Shakespeare's Hamlet was the murdering of Hamlet’s father, the King of Denmark. Hamlet found out about this wrongdoing by the ghost that happens to be the deceased king. The ghost states “Take revenge for his horrible murder, that crime against nature”(Shakespeare 63). The King continues, “Now listen, Hamlet....
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...uncultivated wilderness, he did not fancy walking on this fertile land, but to look for danger he sought. In order to enrich himself. He live in a rich family and happiness family and he have university education already. However, he think jobs is 20 century industrial. After university education, he do not want to stay at city anymore. He want to find someplace no money and free. He spends the next sixteen weeks hunting small game, reading, foraging and living in an abandoned bus made to be a shelter for hunters. In the end of this movie, I saw McCandless dead. In that moment, I think a lot. I also have a question, what is vagrant. Vagrant essence is betrayal? Betrayal of family, betrayal of hometown, betrayal the land which you stand, and strange foreign land. All of betrayal is betrayal from the most radical - betrayal of civilized society. For his own freedom, abandon parents, sister. Especially, when the old man told him with watering eyes “be my grandson and do not go”. However, McCandless is leaving cruelly, also betrayed the...
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