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- 4941: Omeros
- ... influx of outside cultures. In this story, the character of Major Plunkett finds himself in a great deal of personal turmoil. He is struggling to accept the fact that his marriage did not produce a child and that his heritage and family name are no longer going to continue after he dies. There is, ...No heir: the end of the line./No more Plunketts, (Bk 2, XVI, i). The fact is ...
- 4942: Oedipus-concepts Of Sight
- ... the blind way she and Laius handled the Oracle s prophecy. She does not want to have to live with the double fruit of her marriage, a husband by her husband and children by her child. Ironically, at the beginning of the play Oedipus is lacking mental insight, but when he finally gains foresight into the situation, he blinds himself. He does this because he believes that he carries the entire ...
- 4943: Oedipus The King
- ... really love himself (Miller 67). All of the above characteristics make Oedipus a tragic hero according to Aristotle's ideas about tragedy, and a narcissist according to Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self. Using Oedipus as an ideal model, Aristotle says that a tragic hero must be an important or influential man who makes an error in judgment, and who must then ...
- 4944: Of Mice And Men 3
- ... of Lennie and George at the time is Steinbeck's way of illustrating the time period. Lennie Small is an oxymoron. Lennie is a huge, strong, half-witted man that has the heart of a child but has the strength of an ox. Lennie loves rabbits or small and fuzzy lovable creatures, such as mice. The irony of the title is that Lennie is a huge creature and as big a ...
- 4945: Frankenstein 6
- ... marry someday, and the two children grow up together. In describing his family, Victor also includes Henry Clerval, his schoolmate and friend. (Henry is constantly with Victor's family, since he is himself an only child.) Victor's childhood is spent happily surrounded by his close domestic circle. The young Victor becomes interested in natural philosophy when he chances upon a book by Cornelius Agrippa, a sixteenth-century scholar of the ...
- 4946: Theme Of Beowulf
- ... risking your lives for no reason but the danger? All older and wiser heads warned you not to, but no one could check such pride."(p.39, Beowulf). This quote best describes Beowulf as a child, full of pride and not that good at hiding it. "I fought that beast's last battle, left it floating lifeless in the sea." (p.40 Beowulf). Another quote that showed that in his older ...
- 4947: A Drunk Bus Driver And A Bad A
- ... just done? Who was he? Why was he here? Why did he help Bertha? What had he whispered to her? The paramedics rushed away with the woman to have x-rays. The police called each child’s mother one by one, and Patrick came to me and put his hand on my shoulder. I couldn’t say a word, but somehow he knew what was in my mind. "I am an ...
- 4948: Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen
- ... what do you think Baba?" hissed Jing Yee, for she knew Baba detested Hu Yao bang and everything he stood for. Baba looked up from his rice bowl "what are you talking about you silly child?" "Your best friend, Baba, your total opposite, a man of truth, justice and unity." I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, what was she doing? Was she trying to get herself killed? I had ...
- 4949: Maturation Of Scout
- ... understand what the other person is feeling. The theme of childhood is also another important one. The story takes place over a period of years, and the reader takes part in the adventure of the child growing up in a small Southern town. To Kill A Mocking Bird is a fascinating story about a young girl who sees the town through her little innocent eyes, this novel is a must for ...
- 4950: Citizen Kane By Orson Wells
- ... he was married twice, he always stayed alone. This was because of his incapacity of felling love, which was caused by his insecure childhood. Kane was unwillingly taken away from his mother as a young child; this single event molded Kane into the narcissistic man he became. The only time Kane felt safe was when he was under the care of his mother. She was the only person he ever was ...
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