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- 241: Fate and Destiny
- ... to happen anyway. Also, in the Odyssey where Odysseus visits Hades to see an old blind dead soothsayer to find out what he should do in order to get home. Last is the destiny of Oedipus who seeks help to make his country a better place, only to find out what his real destiny was. A strange thing happened in all of these different prophecies and destines of all these gods ... if they don't change. Of course they do not listen they do not change their ways and end up meeting their ultimate demise. And we don't want to forget about the fate of Oedipus whose destiny was to kill his father and marry his mother. Sad thing is that it came true. In the mythological tale of Oedipus the main character tries to avoid his destiny. In the end however that did not work. He was mentally destroyed from what he tried to avoid. You see he tried to avoid what you ...
- 242: Conventions Of Drama
- ... drama is defined as a representation of life. Four plays which have been selected from Greek, Elizabethan, Restoration and Modern times can be analysed to show and represent the changes of drama. These plays are Oedipus the King , Macbeth , The Way of the World and A Doll s House . The early origins of drama came from the Greek. Drama in Greece,450BC was not readily available to the society. Plays were ... often ended with a noble person being destroyed by the Gods. The noble person was led by his own downfalls or flaws which often resulted in his death. This is evident in the story of Oedipus the King where Oedipus tries to outwit the prophecy which the Gods predicted, but fails to do so and ends up in exile. The interesting technique of the dramatic irony in Greek plays meant that the audience had ...
- 243: The Tragedy Of Hamlet
- ... but his one bad trait made him evil. Also a tragic hero doesn't have to die. While in all Shakespearean tragedies, the hero dies, in others he may live but suffer "Moral Destruction". In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone. A misconception about tragedies ...
- 244: The Tragedy of Hamlet
- ... but his one bad trait made him evil. Also a tragic hero doesn't have to die. While in all Shakespearean tragedies, the hero dies, in others he may live but suffer "Moral Destruction". In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone. A misconception about tragedies ...
- 245: Hamlet: Emotional States
- ... times, was clearly not feigning insanity, but that insanity only lasted for brief periods of time because of the emotional blows that Hamlet undergoes. I and many literary folk believe that Hamlet suffered from a Oedipus complex. Freud described this as a desire for a young boy to kill his father and become sexually involved with his mother. Now that Hamlet's father is eliminated, he believes that he will now ... fashion. Because of some of Hamlet's actions in the "closet scene" it is first apparent that he is making some sort of sexual advance towards his mother the Queen. This is where Hamlet's Oedipus complex really bears itself completely, we know exactly what Hamlet wants, but like in the rest of the play his words seem haphazard and spurned on by disillusionment (Lidz, 130). He is here making an ...
- 246: The Role of Fate in Antigone
- ... action taken by, and every word spoken by a character. Sophocles Antigone is not different, fate controls Antigones life in various ways including her lineage. Antigone is the product of an incestuous relationship between Oedipus and Jocasta, her cursed family history suggests that she too is subject to the curse. The acts of Oedipus are contrary to the gods and the deities must reconcile all products of his deeds. Thus, Antigone is doomed from the moment she is born, her acts of civil disobedience are just the strings the ...
- 247: Freud And Caligula
- ... stage is the time during which the child finds gratification through excrement; the phallic stage is the stage during which children begin to choose sexual preference with their parents. This is the stage of the Oedipus and Electra complexes for boys and girls respectively; latency is the period during which both sexes repress their Oedipal attachments and identify with their own sex; finally, the genital stage is characterized by a re ... a child, Caligula did not develop psychosexually, as a normal child would have developed. Although he could have completed the oral stage, the other three stages were never fully processed. Never having gone through the Oedipus complex, it would account for his sexual confusion and promiscuity with women and children of both sexes; especially in light of his sexually abusive uncle Tiberius. With his torrential childhood, Caligula seems to have developed ...
- 248: Universal Neurosis
- ... together into a universal Oedipal complex and religious illusion, the ideas of the tripartite human psyche and wishfullfillment the Freud developed came under fire from critics for their controversial messages and analysis. Briefly stated, the Oedipus complex is the preservation in the adult individual of the perceptions, strategies and scars of a conflict the individual underwent during his or her preschool years. According to Freud, these perceptions, etc., later color and ... verbal encouragement and suggestion, and finally, in the later work, reports given through free-associations) as revealing a universal Oedipal drama. Freud found what he took to be evidence for the universal existence of the Oedipus in the testimony of patients, in his analysis of the repressed in dreams, in slips, wit, and the transference phenomenon, as well as in art, philosophy, and religion. The child identifies with the parent of ...
- 249: Mardigras
- ... almost Mardi Gras and when the local inhabitants discovered a real Grand Duke was to be among them, they sat up and took notice. A new carnival Krewe was elaborated. A new king was named -Rex- Lord of Misrule. An official holiday was announced and street maskers were forbidden to form a united procession. Carnival colors were chosen - purple, green, and gold. At the city hall a throne like chair was ... Cease To Love, band after band played it. The song has remained an integral part of Mardi Gras. Alexis Alexandrovich had helped to fix the pattern that Mardi Gras would thence forth follow: official holiday, Rex, and If Ever I Cease To Love as its song.(The Folklore of American Holidays pg. 84-97) Mardi Gras in New Orleans attracts tourists from around the world. Parades begin the week before Mardi ...
- 250: Hamlets Madness
- ... and he sacrifices her love for revenge. An honest man would not have done so. Hamlet has violent outbursts towards his mother. His outburst seems to be out of jealousy, as a victim to the Oedipus complex. He alone sees his father's ghost in his mother's chambers. Every other time the ghost appeared someone else has seen it. During this scene he finally shows his madness, because his mother ... and he sacrifices her love for revenge. An honest man would not have done so. Hamlet has violent outbursts towards his mother. His outburst seems to be out of jealousy, as a victim to the Oedipus complex. He alone sees his father's ghost in his mother's chambers. Every other time the ghost appeared someone else has seen it. During this scene he finally shows his madness, because his mother ...
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