The Queen of the Damned As we draw towards others and follow them and their way we lose our own way and part of ourselves in the process. The Queen of the Damned is Anne Rice’s third book in The Vampire Chronicles series. In the beginning it’s all about a group of present-day immortal vampires struggles to save the mortal humans from the first vampire Akasha. She devilishly plans to enslave mankind and destroy all men on earth in order to stop wars and promote peace. She decides to save one male
musical industry and truly embodied the superficial idea of a rock star. Although she died over forty years ago, her legacy will live on for many decades to come. Her memorable persona is why Janis Joplin should be named the Queen of Soul. Janis Joplin didn’t start off as the queen of anything. She grew up in the coastal town of Port Arthur, Texas. She never really felt connected with members of her peer group and was often ridiculed by children around her. As she grew older she was definitely not
King, is the soon following marriage of the widowed Queen to none other than Claudius, the murderer. While the Queen does not know that Claudius killed her former husband, her part in the relationship is not wholly innocent. Her mourning seems minimal and her lustfulness maximal, for 'But two months dead' (1.2.138) was the King before 'She married . . . With such dexterity to incestuous sheets' (1.2.156-157). This image of a corrupted or damned royalty is strongly played up, especially by Hamlet
nothing beautiful left to see in the world, he did not want to see his parents in the afterlife, and he wanted to suffer for his mistakes. This was yet another action of Oedipus’s that created even more disorder for Thebes to handle because now their Queen was dead and their King
Oedipus a Tragic Hero What is a tragic hero? A Tragic hero is a man or character who has great influence, makes an error in his or her actions, and who must suffer the consequences of those actions. Oedipus’ tragic flaws starts with his excessive pride which leads to overconfidence as the people in the city lift him up and feed his ego: “You are not one of the immortal gods we know; Yet we have come to you to make our prayer. As to the man of all men best in adversity and wisest in the ways of
The problem or question of what it means to be damned is difficult to understand at the best of times, it is however all the more difficult when the subject in question is a vampire. How does a vampire that has developed God-like powers and whose only way to survive is to take human life, redeem themselves in the eyes of God? This is not really an issue for Lestat; as for the majority of the Vampire Chronicles he believes himself to be a form of God. With every life that Lestat takes he is committing
Lust, or lechery, is having the intense sexual desire to be with someone, which may lead to many sexual, immoral acts. Lust is best represented in Hamlet as the relationship between Queen Gertrude and King Claudius. After King Hamlet is murdered, Gertrude quickly marries her late husband’s brother, Claudius. The titular character even states that his mother got remarried with “ most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestous sheets” ( 1. 2. 155-156) and sheds light on the lecherous
Each major character of Shakespeare’s Hamlet has a major flaw, which destroys him or her. The King, Queen, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Polonius all have these flaws but Horatio does not. He is Shakespeare’s ideal man. Claudius’ fatal flaw is ambitiousness. Claudius kills his brother King Hamlet and then takes the throne by marrying King Hamlet’s wife: “Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen…have we (as ‘twere with a defeated joy, with an auspicious and a dropping eye, with mirth in funeral and
revenge against his murderer, and brother, King Claudius. Shakespeare’s choice of diction, in this particular dialogue between Hamlet and the ghost of his father, allows the reader glimpse into the ghost’s personal feelings towards Claudius and the Queen. This is intended to push the reader to side with Hamlet and the ghost of his father, and uses harsh diction to do so. For example, the ghost refers to his murderer, and his brother, as “that incestuous, that adulterous beast” (Line 12); this choice
the terrace, Hamlet learned of a murderer that would prove his fealty towards his father. As he contemplated the appalling news recently brought to his attention, the control Hamlet had over his actions was questioned. “O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark,” [Act I, v l. 106-109]. Hamlet’s hatred toward his father’s killer caused him to relate the tribulations between
If prophecy were to be real, one could expect what is bound to happen in the future. This is true; at least in “Oedipus the King” in which the protagonist, Oedipus calls forth his doom unwillingly. Fate is defined as something that unavoidably befalls a person. The author of “Oedipus the King,” Sophocles, writes a tragic fate that Oedipus was born to experience. Fate is what is meant to happen and cannot be avoided or unchanged. Furthermore, events that lead to other events could be the result for
Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, want to become the King and Queen of Scotland. They want these titles so badly that they do a few demented things to reach their goal. After a while, their greed starts to control their actions. Lady Macbeth is the main instigator of Macbeth’s troubling actions throughout the play. Lady Macbeth is constantly trying to get into Macbeth’s head to convince him to do as she says so that she can become Queen. For example, she says, “To beguile the time, Look like the time;
"Art Imitating Life in Fitzgerald's Novels." Art Imitating Life in Fitzgerald's Novels. Judith S. Baughman 11 May 2014 . Scrapbook, Princeton; the clipping is reproduced in the Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual (1976), p. 108 "The Beautiful and the Damned." Alma Classics. 11 May 2014 . "The Great Gatsby Character Analysis." SparkNotes. SparkNotes. 11 May 2014 . “What a ‘Flapper Novelist’ Thinks of His Wife,” Baltimore Sun, 7 October 1923; F. Scott Fitzgerald In His Own Time: A Miscellany, ed
Whitney 1 Gregory Whitney Mrs. Kittredge H Eng. 10 2/19/14 Queen Gertrude is the Center of Conflict One of the most important characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet would be the mother of Hamlet himself, Gertrude. Queen Gertrude played a terrible and devious part, which left many wondering the solidity of her honor and dignity. She led a life of prestige and luxury, but could not find happiness in either. Gertrude is the cause of conflict in Hamlet because in her quest for happiness, she married her
kill him, “Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, with juice of cursed hebona in a vial, and in the porches of my ears did pour the leprous distillment” (257). Claudius was jealous of his brothers money and title, not to mention he was coveting the queen as well. It could also be said that once Claudius took the throne that Hamlet may’ve been experiencing some jealousy of his own over the crown. Along with Hamlet’s plot to seek revenge over his father’s murder, he very well could’ve been seeking his
1253) Many of Thebes' most intelligent citizens die as result of answering incorrectly. Using his superior discernment and diligence, Oedipus answers the riddle correctly and secures his reward in claiming the high seat of King of Thebes, along side Queen Jocasta. As a child, man crawls on his hands and knees, which the Sphinx refers to as four legs. One depends solely on others for nourishment and well being. Sophocles enacts this particular portion of the metaphor by telling us of Oedipus' birth
The name Akasha derives from the Hindu culture, and is a noun because it is referring to an entity or a Spirit of being. The actual root form of the name Akasha is from Sanskrit, “kāś meaning: "to be visible"” (Wikipedia). Among the many spiritual cultures Akasha is connected with, it is no surprise that in nearly every sprititual culture she is in she is associated with division. So for Pagans to the four separate elements and culminate into one Spirit is a rather cathartic beauty in itself. What
and marry his mother. To make sure the prophecy does not some true, they give the baby to a shepherd to be taken to the mountain side to be killed by exposure. The shepherd felt bad and gave the baby to another shepherd who gave him to the king and queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope. Oedipus is told by a drunk man that Polybus and Merope are not his real parents. He goes to the Oracle to ask the gods but they ignore his question and instead tell him that he will kill his father and marry his mother
For one thing, Oedipus was, in fact, the son of Laius and Jocasta. Therefore, he was noble in the simplest sense because his biological parents were indeed royalty. However, Oedipus believes himself to be the son of Polybos and Merope, the king and queen of Corinth, which allows for him to achieve another kind of nobility, even if it is false. Moreover, as pre... ... middle of paper ... ...h Oedipus was of noble and genuine character, evoked pity from the audience, and possessed a “tragic flaw
In the beginning of the play the audience learns that the king has died and later discovers that it was his brother Claudius who killed him. Besides his hunger for the crown, what else might have motivated him to kill his brother? The answer is the queen, whom he married barely a month after her husband's death. The king himself admits this in his prayer, saying, "Of those effects for which I did the murder, my crown, mine own ambition, and