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-understanding how desire brings corruption
>shame, guilt
>tragic hero

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-act 5, scene 5, lines 50-51
“Caesar, now be still, I 🤬’d not thee with half so good a wilt."

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William Shakespeare’s work of Julius Caesar embodies a power struggle between Brutus’ loyalty and his good minded nature to ultimately test which matters more: the survival of his civilization or the survival of his best friend and, though he remains unaware until the end, his own virtue.

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Julius Caesar
-blind loyalty, the desire to be ambitious, and the challenge of love

-desire to eliminate tyranny turns tyrannous itself

-the ulterior motives behind brutus' best intentions
>how his best thought turned him into what he feared most
>grievances

-tragic hero

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Dr. Faustus
-the allure of knowledge, inquiry, and power

-good vs. evil
>temptations overcome morals
>power poisons ones influence

-forgiveness

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Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
- the nature of chivalry & what it meant to be ~chivalrous~ during that time.

- the desire of maintaining true honor

- morals being provoked by seduction

-the fear of bringing the shame of failure upon their king

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-mephistophilis trying to persuade faustus from turning away from god

-expressing the complexity of faustus' sins and the corruption of religion

-giving up heaven is not worth going to 🤬
>regret
>forgiveness

-knows he deserves to burn

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-page 13
“O Faustus! Leave these frivolous demands, Which strike terror to my fainting soul.”

-page 53
“But Faustus’ offences can never be pardoned: the serpent that tempted Eve may be sav’d, but not Faustus.”

-page 56
“... Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements; But min must live, still to be plagu’d in 🤬.”

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Christopher Marlowe introduces to the reader a to Dr. Faustus, a man who withholds all of the characteristics of a Renaissance man, but pushes his inquiry beyond limits until he damns himself to 🤬.

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-bernlak's wife's seduction
>gawain cracking under pressure and tempation

-gawain's shame from breaking his code, backing down from a covenant

-gawain admits his shame and tries to still do right by his king

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- page 26
"now ye are here and we are alone..."
"ye are welcome to my company, for it behoves me in sooth to be your servant."

-page 47
"cursed by ye, cowardice and covetousness, for in ye is the destruction of virtue."

-page 48
"commend me to that courteous lady, thy fair wife, and to the other my honoured ladies, who have beguiled their knight with skilful craft."

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Within the covers of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain struggles internally with between his chivalrous attitude and the allure of seduction that presents itself to him.

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Through the quote, "reading sensitive and lengthy explorations of people's lives, ... literally putting yourself into another person's position -- [into] lives that could be more difficult, more complex... can lead to more empathy and understanding of other lives," one's ability to empathize allows the reader to see beyond the literature and develop characters that exceed typical black and white standards. Temptations often steer round characters in the wrong direction, establishing their greatest desires which later transform into their greatest fears.   Having read pieces of literature such as Dr. Faustus, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, and Julius Caesar, one finds their ability to trace man's decisions and sympathize with characters as their desires for knowledge, true honor, and ambition transfigures their character into greed, shame, and tyranny.