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- 221: Summary: Jurassic Park
- ... After leaving the control room, the visitors climb aboard Toyota Land Cruisers, which acted as the mode of transportation throughout the park. They move along the park, looking at Dilophosaurus, Triceratops, and the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex. Everything was going all as planned, but as Ian Malcolm had predicted, things started to go wrong. First, back at control, they did scans around the park and found out that the dinosaurs were breeding ... shut off the main computer, all the electricity in the park went down as well. This was bad timing, because Alan, and the kids were trapped in the Land Cruisers right next to the T-Rex pin. And because the electricity was out, the fences all around the park were not electric, which allowed the animals to get free. And this meant bad news for Alan and the group since they ... Alan and the kids had found a raft, and began to float down a river toward control. Now the fifth section begins as Alan is floating down the river, trying to escape from the T-Rex, who was still trying to get at them. Luckily the escaped it two times. They had floated down to a waterfall and had escaped behind it when the T-Rex found them. It had ...
- 222: Hamlet's Odd Behavior
- ... 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 ...
- 223: Aristotle On Tragedy
- ... neither outstanding in virtue and righteousness; nor is it through badness or villainy of his own that he falls into misfortune, but rather through some flaw [hamartia]". The character should be famous or prosperous, like Oedipus or Medea. What Aristotle meant by hamartia cannot be established. In each play we read you should particularly consider the following possibilities. (1) A hamartia may be simply an intellectual mistake or an error in ... of mankind, provided that that knowledge is associated, as Aristotle said it should be, with the hero's 'reversal of fortune' (Greek: peripeteia). A reversal is a change of a situation to its opposite. Consider Oedipus at the beginning and end of Oedipus the King. Also consider in that play how a man comes to free Oedipus of his fear about his mother, but actually does the opposite. Recognitions are also supposed to be clearly connected with ...
- 224: Cicero
- ... and Chrysippus taught. Cicero tries to link the universal community of mankind within the borders of roman political thought. This composite state expressed in Scipio by Cicero, is an ideal Rome of the past. The Rex, was the royal element; the senate was the aristocratic influence; The plebs and patricians became the deciding people. By giving this blueprint of the ideal society, Cicero attempted to answer the stoic doctrine of the ... as a blueprint. Cicero offered no real comprehensive logic behind his pattern of possible outcomes. Early roman history (tradition) tells of a series of seven kings, and the last, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, was a tyrannical rex. In the first part of Cicero's diagram a monarch is in place, which can only be followed by a tyrant. After Lucius Tarquinius Superbus overthrow the senate and patricians played a decisive role. The rex's position was abolished and two consuls were elected annual ridding Rome of monarchical and tyrannical rule. This brought Rome into the age of a republic, shortly after the senate gained powers and showed ...
- 225: Greek Tragedies
- ... retelling, and how they were molded in the hands of the tragic poets, can be forgotten from comparison of the plays based on the same events by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides. In the rendition of Oedipus he kills Laius, and marries his mother, who is called Epicasta, thus becoming the king of Thebes. In time the Gods revealed the secret of his birth and the two became aware of their sins. Epicasta hangs herself, but Oedipus continues to rule Thebes. But all his life he suffers from constant torments from visions of his mother's ghost and feelings of guilt. He eventually dies in battle. All three tragedies tell a connected ... in different times and in a life that is not organic. For example the functions and personalities of the characters are made within the content of Creon who is a compassionate and unambiguous nobleman in Oedipus, a blustering tyrant victim in Agamemnon, and a tragic hero in Medea. Of course a study of the relationship between the plays can be useful when they all fit in together. The last two ...
- 226: Greek Tragedies
- ... retelling, and how they were molded in the hands of the tragic poets, can be forgotten from comparison of the plays based on the same events by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides. In the rendition of Oedipus he kills Laius, and marries his mother, who is called Epicasta, thus becoming the king of Thebes. In time the Gods revealed the secret of his birth and the two became aware of their sins. Epicasta hangs herself, but Oedipus continues to rule Thebes. But all his life he suffers from constant torments from visions of his mother's ghost and feelings of guilt. He eventually dies in battle. All three tragedies tell a connected ... in different times and in a life that is not organic. For example the functions and personalities of the characters are made within the content of Creon who is a compassionate and unambiguous nobleman in Oedipus, a blustering tyrant victim in Agamemnon, and a tragic hero in Medea. Of course a study of the relationship between the plays can be useful when they all fit in together. The last two ...
- 227: Hamlet And Comic Relief
- ... Caesar or Yorick. Hamlet cannot escape the wickedly punning reminder of this same skull, that all skulls look frightfully the same (Nardo 113). The gravediggers serve as a pseudo-chorus (such as those seen in Oedipus Rex or Antigone) that comments on the main thoughts of the character or the main action of the scene. The gravediggers note especially the Ophelia s suicide and the mannerisms and laws of the aristocrats (Boyce ...
- 228: Discuss Some Of The Main Ideas
- ... child is likely to enjoy masturbation. The small boy may become sexually interested in his Mother. He may become possessive of her, which arouses feelings of rivalry towards his Father. Freud called this conflict the Oedipus complex and can help to determine the sexual and emotional patterns of later life. The female version of the Oedipus complex is known as the Electra complex. Freud concluded that although a little girl is emotionally involved with her Mother, the discovery that she lacks a penis and is therefore inferior, leads her to become disillusioned with her Mother who she blames for her condition and turns her attentions towards her Father as a love object. Freud believed the Oedipus complex to be universal and to be succeeded by a “latency period” lasting until puberty where the focus is on genital stimulation. Research does not support Freud’s view of the latency period and ...
- 229: Hamlet: Theories Of Hamlet's Delay In Killing Claudius
- ... is a melancholic. The other theory I can believe is Sigmund Freud's. Freud published a paper on Hamlet suffering from an Oedipal complex. An Oedipal complex is a theory Freud developed from Sophicles' play, Oedipus Rex.. When a boy does not lose his "lust" (for lack of a better word) for his mother past a certain age, that individual suffers from an Oedipal complex. This is best proven at the end ...
- 230: Plan and Purpose (Creation) or Time and Chance (Evolution)?
- ... was longer than the boat, and its strength was phenomenal. The structure of the ark was very solid and sound. (d) If the world was a perfect place before Adam sinned, why did the Tyrannosaurus Rex have sharp, razorlike teeth? Before Adam sinned, there was no violence, and therefore, all animals were vegetarians. The Tyrannosaurus Rex’s teeth were used to rip and tear plants, however, if this dinosaur had bitten into the back of another animal, its teeth would have fallen out. After Adam sinned, death was introduced into the world, causing a struggle for survival, and animals were forced to begin eating other animals. After Adam sinned, the Tyrannosaurus Rex’s teeth took on a different function, to rip and tear the meat of other animals. (e) How could animals such as koalas cross the ocean from Australia to get to Noah’s ark? ...
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