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- 211: Modern Vs. Ancient
- ... same motifs, and have relied on tragedy to form the play. The play, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in The Moon Marigolds has taken several aspects from Greek drama, specifically from the play Oedipus. The play The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in The Moon Marigolds and both Antigone and Oedipus have used the same ideas and they both have very similar aspects to them. Although they created the modern play many years after the other two, there are still signs of the old style of ... and have the same morals. Just like plays passed on from generation to generation, modern plays also have morals in them, and many of those morals are similar. For example, the theme of Antigone and Oedipus was that we should listen to others, and we shouldn't think that we are always right, because there are always people who know more than we do. The theme from The Effects of ...
- 212: The Lost World: Summary
- ... hide. They didn't notice it though. Later on, Arby sees someone on the screen. Its Sarah. They go to pick her up. Dodgson, King, and Baselton are stealing eggs. The get to the T-Rex's nest, the expect the T-Rex to not be able to see as long as they don't move. Malcolm says that they are misinformed and in the chase, Baselton and King Die, and Dodgson gets away and is chased by these small dinosaurs into this shed, and he falls asleep. During that chase, Levine and Eddie were at the nest, and Eddie saw a hurt baby T-Rex. Levine tells him to shoot it, but instead, Eddie brings it back to the trailer. Ian and Sarah try to heal it while everyone else goes back to the high hide. While they are ...
- 213: Psychoanalyzing Hamlet:frued A
- ... a hatred for the main opposition for his mother s affection-his father. The stage of development where a boy falls in love with his mother and wants to kill his father is called the Oedipus Complex. Hamlet exhibits signs of a lingering Oedipus Complex. Oedipus complex disappears when the young boy realizes "the impossibility of fulfilling the sexual wish for the mother"(Hall) The main factor in making the young boys wish impossible is the father. When Hamlet s ...
- 214: Achilles Anophtheis (Achilles revisited)
- ... down at the few notes he had been able to salvage from the previous session's mangled tape, "last week, we established with a fair degree of certainty, that you are suffering from an unresolved Oedipus complex. This, in turn, has contributed to your success, by engendering in you a sense of competition with your father. The matter was not helped by the fact that you frequently suffered comparison with him ... It's true that I would like to see Hector squirm, but I hate to have to save Alexander in the process." said Oswald doubtfully. "Secondly, we have already established that you have an unresolved Oedipus complex and-" "I'm not absolutely certain that I understand what it is to have an `unresolved Oedipus complex'," Oswald interrupted. "I apologize for not clarifying my psychological terms for you. An Oedipus complex, as you are probably aware, is a normal childhood phenomena. Because of the child's natural love for ...
- 215: Sigmund Freud
- ... these theories came through years of analysis of patients and himself. In fact many of his ideas and beliefs came from his own psychoanalysis. His invention of psychoanalysis ha allowed us to better understand the Oedipus Complex, dreams, and symptoms of hysteria. Certain patients of Freud would display signs and symptoms of hysteria and instead of excepting a doctors diagnostic he would delve into their mind in order to find ... perfectly straight forward it was instead disguised. This disguising was common because it was a tool used buy the conscious in order to protect itself. Eventually these childhood experiences developed into the theory of the Oedipus complex. This complex meant that since a majority of a small child life is spent with just two parents, he forms an attraction to the opposite sex and a resentment towards the father. The Oedipus Complex in fact had strong support from Freuds own experiences. As a boy he had seen his own mother naked and had become sexually aroused. And also when his father died it stirred ...
- 216: Antigone Vs. Billy Budd
- ... situation that does not occur in life to illustrate a point directed toward the audience. The audience is left to decide questions the author or playwright poses. The plot in Antigone is a situation after Oedipus, the king of Thebes, exiled himself. His two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles were proclaimed as the rulers of Thebes. They agreed that each would rule in alternate years. However, after the first year, Eteocles refused ... as the king, can do whatever he wants. His decision to punish Antigone becomes a decision he regrets. Fate is also a very prominent theme in Antigone. Fate is what had gotten the family of Oedipus where we begin this play. Fate is why Oedipus had killed his father, marry his mother, and then find out all about it. Fate had made Oedipus' sons kill each other and make Creon the new king of Thebes. Antigone's fate was ...
- 217: Greek Literature
- ... and produced more than 100 plays, only seven of which remain. His drama 'Antigone' is typical of his work: its heroine is a model of womanly self-sacrifice. He is probably better known, though, for 'Oedipus Rex' and its sequel, 'Oedipus at Colonus'. The third of the great tragic writers was Euripides (484-406). He wrote at least 92 plays. Sixty-seven of these are known in the 20th century some just in part or ...
- 218: Moby Dick
- ... already accepted the possibility (ch. 16) that out of these old Quaker whalemen might come the "globular brain," the "ponderous heart" the "bold and nervous lofty language," of "a mighty pageant figure"--- a Job, an Oedipus, a Lear--- "formed for noble tragedies." The stage is set and the characters drawn for "the tragic dramatist" (as Melville now openly calls himself) to present his action. There is a preliminary lull, but full ... dramatize further this final phase of Ahab's course, and therein lies the peculiarly shocking nature of the book. It is as if we left Job at the end of one of his diatribes or Oedipus at his self-blinding or Lear as he curses his daughters and plunges into the storm. Even with this final insight of Ahab's, the ending seems too dire for tragedy. It seems to deny ... already accepted the possibility (ch. 16) that out of these old Quaker whalemen might come the "globular brain," the "ponderous heart" the "bold and nervous lofty language," of "a mighty pageant figure"--- a Job, an Oedipus, a Lear--- "formed for noble tragedies." The stage is set and the characters drawn for "the tragic dramatist" (as Melville now openly calls himself) to present his action. There is a preliminary lull, but ...
- 219: Creon Vs. Antigone In The Buri
- Creon vs. Antigone in the burial of Polyneices When King Oedipus learned that he lived his life under a curse, unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother, he poked out his own eyes and dissappeared into exile. After Oedipus' abandonment, toghether his sons Eteocles and Polyneices ruled Thebes. The two brothers eventually came to conflict, Eteocles banished his brother, and Ployneices attacked the city with an army outside of Thebes. During the battle the sons of Oedipus slew each other leaving the throne to Creon, who is next in blood. Creon has announced that Eteocles is to be buried with military honors. As for Polyneices he will recieve no such burial ...
- 220: Achilles Anophtheis (Achilles
- ... down at the few notes he had been able to salvage from the previous session's mangled tape, "last week, we established with a fair degree of certainty, that you are suffering from an unresolved Oedipus complex. This, in turn, has contributed to your success, by engendering in you a sense of competition with your father. The matter was not helped by the fact that you frequently suffered comparison with him ... It's true that I would like to see Hector squirm, but I hate to have to save Alexander in the process." said Oswald doubtfully. "Secondly, we have already established that you have an unresolved Oedipus complex and-" "I'm not absolutely certain that I understand what it is to have an 'unresolved Oedipus complex'," Oswald interrupted. "I apologize for not clarifying my psychological terms for you. An Oedipus complex, as you are probably aware, is a normal childhood phenomena. Because of the child's natural love for ...
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