- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Like the Hermit, Ellie considers herself a murderer. She has “blood on [her] hands,” and, like the Hermit, the reasons why she killed don’t really matter. The Hermit likely killed his family out of love to spare them suffering and pain, but Ellie can’t decide if his actions represent good or bad. Similarly, Ellie kills to save herself and her friends, whom she loves and cares for deeply, and she can’t tell if her own actions are good or bad.
Furthermore, Ellie implies that if she killed to save her friends and family, that would be more acceptable than killing…