Essays on Betrayal

The Other Woman, by Virgilio Samonte, is a short story that set out a fray-like relationship between spouse and mistresses. The Other Woman is written in narrative form, where the author used excessive aesthetic words to define the situations, emotions, and the settings effectively, which...

The themes of Loyalty and Betrayal in The Kite Runner The Kite Runner was the first novel written by Khaled Hosseini, and was published in 2003. The story is told through the eyes of the protagonist Amir, and the events of his life in Afghanistan,...

Lantana, directed by Ray Lawrence, is an Australian film that follows the lives of a group of people living in Suburban Sydney, as they attempt to navigate their relationships with the ones they love. The film explores intense themes of betrayal, trust, loss and love,...

Foreshadowing Betrayal Cleopatra’s betrayal is not unexpected at all if one closely reads the text in Antony and Cleopatra. There is ample foreshadowing of Cleopatra’s corrupted morals and sense of self. Antony’s infatuation with Cleopatra leads him to overlook her behavior and forgive her almost...

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, motifs are displayed throughout the play. Motifs such as life and death, truth and lies, and loyalty and betrayal, are some of the biggest ones, just to name a few. The motifs in the play are used to...

Amir is the locked house holding back an egregious secret that could have saved a life. Just as the house was hidden in the trees, Amir’s secret was covered up and not about to come out. Once Amir found out that Hassan, his half brother,...

Through their respective texts, Atonement and Lantana, authors Ian McEwan and Ray Lawrence expertly convey the ideas of betrayal, atonement, loss and class. Within Atonement, McEwan employs stylistic features repetition, motif, symbolism and characterisation to explore the idea of betraying a loved one, the effort...

The light shining through the chapel’s stained-glass windows illuminated their goldenhighlights perfectly. Our breaths escaped our bodies as we watched them pick up the bottle ofwhiskey as they put it up to their mouths to taste. We watched in a sort of twisted excitement,almost wishing...

Two stories worthy of comparison are The Foundling by Heinrich von Kleist and Blond Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. Both have a theme of invasion from another person into one’s life, and are rife with betrayal, drama, and tragedy. Their similarities do not end with these...