How To Get Away With Murder Analysis

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How to Get Away with Murder centers around the lives of defense attorney and criminal law professor Annalise Keating and her four pupils, and is a modern parallelism of the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King. The people in the show appear to be fighting for justice; however, as the show progresses, the audience soon realizes the blurry line between what is right and wrong. Each of its main characters gets entangled in messy business, as each episode moves from one murder to the next. How to Get Away with Murder can be considered as a modern day tragedy due to the fact that no matter how noble a character’s intentions may be, and no matter how hard they try to conceal the evidence of their crime, their mistakes always get them in the end. …show more content…

She committed suicide, which was more of an escape from her crimes rather than dealing with them. One of Keating’s students, Wes, accidentally killed Sam Keating, Annalise’s husband. Instead of facing lifetime imprisonment, he hid under the protection of Annalise the same way Jocasta hid from her crimes by an escape through death. Regardless, Jocasta’s life was punishment in itself. As he recounted what had happened, the messenger said, “And then she groaned and cursed the bed in which she brought forth husband by her husband, children by her own child, and infamous double bond” (Sophocles 20). She abandoned her newborn child, expecting him to die, and when he didn’t, that child grew up to be the killer of her husband. Unknowingly, she wed her husband’s murderer and son, the deadliest of all sins in Greek society. In How to Get Away with Murder, Wes experienced tremendous guilt as well as feelings of confliction as he had to wake up each day knowing the terrible thing he had done. Jocasta too had to live with the many sins she had committed, and that punishment was far more cruel than what she deserved. Hanging takes a great deal of willpower, and Jocasta’s strong will to die was derived from the suffering that she had endured ever since the day she gave birth to the child that was fated to destroy his

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