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- 5331: Oedipus-Concepts Of Sight
- ... the blind way she and Laius handled the Oracles 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 ...
- 5332: Oedipus Rex: Classic Tragic Hero
- ... 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 ...
- 5333: Oedipus Rex - Oedipus Is Innocent
- ... How can we blame Oedipus for committing murder when his father was the one who wanted Oedipus dead? King Laius wanted his son dead because he valued his own life before the life of his child. He listened to the prophecy and tried to go against the gods, he tried to prove fate wrong. And as we can see from both King Laius aspect and from Oedipus side their fate was ...
- 5334: Oedipus Rex
- ... loyal servant (The Theban Shepherd) to take to the top Mt. Cithaeron to be killed. After nailing his ankles together and leaving him to die of the elements, the old shepherd relents and hands the child over to a traveling shepherd from Corinth to take back to the childless King and Queen to raise as their own son. For the next twenty years, Laios and Locaste rule in Thebes believing their ...
- 5335: Oedipus Rex
- ... loyal servant (The Theban Shepherd) to take to the top Mt. Cithaeron to be killed. After nailing his ankles together and leaving him to die of the elements, the old shepherd relents and hands the child over to a traveling shepherd from Corinth to take back to the childless King and Queen to raise as their own son. For the next twenty years, Laios and Locaste rule in Thebes believing their ...
- 5336: Loving April
- ... assumed to be profoundly retarded when in fact she has a very quick mind. April could also lip-read as fast as a professional lip reader thus making her understand all the nasty remarks people abuse her with. In the conclusion of Loving April, the last page of the novel captured my interest the most because finally everything was fine. Tony is back with his father living his usual life while ...
- 5337: Lord Of The Flies - Discovery
- ... at front of people. Samnerics challenge is how to make right choice. The truth about self-discovery may be cruel, but it is worth to learn from it. 2Ralph is being a playful, innocent child in the beginning of the story, but towards the end he matures significantly. Excluding Piggy, Ralph is the most mature and responsible member of the boys, for he is concerned throughout the book with keeping ...
- 5338: Lord Of The Flies - Civilized Vs. Savage
- ... take care of certain elements, a leader was chosen to look upon them. The savage side becomes evident with the power of the leader, Ralph, failing. Jack overthrows Ralph as leader. Jack is a savage child who manages to persuade all the other children to join his "tribe". A tribe involved with hunting, playing and making sacrifices to make-believe creatures. The boys' natural human savagery can no longer be suppressed ...
- 5339: Lord Of The Flies - Chapter Summaries
- ... meeting, Ralph decides that more rules should be introduced, including groups to be set out for specific tasks (e.g. Shelters, Fire, Hunting). Also, Piggy brings up a subject of concern. He reveals that one child is missing, and the group fear for his life. Chapter Three: Huts on the Beach. Ralph and Simon start to build shelters on their own and become angry because of the amount of kids who ...
- 5340: Lord Of The Flies
- ... extremely bleak because it deals so profoundly with the dark side of humanity. The protagonist in Lord of the Flies is Ralph. At the beginning of the story he is described as being a playful child, but towards the end he matures significantly. He is one of the few boys who realizes that the only way to survive is through peace and order. Because he summons the boys at the beginning ...
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