His sexual encounter with Gretchen results in her mother's death, her conviction as a whore and murderer, and causes the death of her brother as well. Unlike Tartuffe, Faust faces no consequences for the despair that he causes Gretchen. Despite their differences, the two characters hold a common theme. They both go to ridiculous lengths in order to fulfill their desires, and these desires cause trouble for them and others.
In the case of Tartuffe, his advancements towards Elmire are what oust him as a hypocrite to Orgon. From the beginning of the story Iago has a cruel intent bent on destroying Othello merely because the job that he sought after was given to young Cassio. Exactly why his hatred burns so bright is unclear because it was not uncommon to lose a position to another soldier. With or without reasonable justification for revenge, Iago immediately starts to tear Othello apart by informing Brabantio Desdemon's father, Othello;s wife that she is out with a black ram and committing unjust acts.
Iago is so obsessed with his revenge on Othello that he does not care what happens to anyone else so long as he is happy. After he kills the King and Banquo separately he is distraught with shame and guilt, while Lady Macbeth holds herself together and covers for his strange behavior. In Act V, we see Lady Macbeth falling apart, a downfall we later learn leads her to suicide. Macbeth, on the other hand, has forgotten his guilt, and is even willing to fight in the face of certain death when he learns of Macduff's unmotherly birth.
While both characters may be viewed as foul, the theme still applies. One would expect, stereotypically, that Macbeth would be the one trying to convince his queasy wife that killing the King would be a blessing. Throughout the play, Othello is looked at as an outsider who gained respect as a general and then gained attention for secretly marrying Desdemona.
To overcome his status as a Moor, Othello feels the need to always appear to be in control which consequently makes him susceptible to being manipulated. Eventually, his desire to be respected becomes his greatest weakness and leads to him betraying the person who loved him the most.
In the Stuart Birge film adaptation, Othello is overridden by emotion due to being betrayed by a woman he loves dearly whereas in the Oliver Parker version, he seems to murder his wife as revenge for making him look bad by cuckolding him. And what shows that I am utterly a louse," he added, grinding his teeth, "is that I am perhaps viler and more loathsome than the louse I killed, and I felt beforehand that I should tell myself so after killing her.
Can anything be compared with the horror of that? To catch the nearest way thou wouldst be great. Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.
The environments that the characters live in are judgmental and hypocritical. Several morally ambiguous characters played different vital roles in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Sonia Marmeladov is especially ambiguous and important in this novel. Her contradicting social and moral statuses along with her contrasting roles as a saintly liberator and sinner allowed Sonia to play a crucial role throughout the novel.
Not only that but her character further. Daisy Buchanan is a major example of a morally ambiguous character in the Great Gatsby. Premium F. She responds to her husband teasing lightly and is excited about his new adventures.
But as the play progresses you begin to see her true colors. When she takes out a loan to preserve Torvalds. The Brave New World Writing Prompt: Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature.
However, in some remarkable pieces of work, authors create characters that are so realistic and so complex that we are unable to distinguish them as purely good or evil. In the novel Crime and Punishment , Fyodor Dostoevsky develops the morally ambiguous characters of Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov to provide us with an interesting read and to give us a chance to evaluate each character.
Svidrigailov is one of the most unfathomable characters in Crime …show more content… Being the protagonist in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is subject to most ridicule and analysis for his moral ambiguity and outlandish views. After reading about his dreadful murder of Alyona and Lizaveta Ivanovna, many come to the conclusion that Raskolnikov is purely evil.
His lack of guilt and belief of justification for his crime surely points readers in this direction. Raskolnikov remains convinced that he is superior and that it was his duty to kill such a worthless person. Although some may view this as evilness, others may perceive it as downright ignorant.
At certain points in the story, we see Raskolnikov not as a deranged man, but instead as a compassionate human being.
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