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- 321: Western Films
- ... as the genre developed into the 30s, some of the films and their stars included Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, William 'Hopalong Cassidy' Boyd (who appeared in almost seventy films between 1935 and 1952), Sunset Carson, Rex Allen, Tim Holt, Randolph Scott and others. During this time period, shorter, light-hearted, low-budget, non-violent Westerns, called singing cowboy films, highlighted the musical and singing talents of its stars in addition to ...
- 322: Antigone: Afterlife
- Antigone: Afterlife Antigone, in Greek legend, was the daughter of Oedipus. When her brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed one another, Creon, king of Thebes, forbade the rebel Polynices burial. Antigone disobeyed him, performed the rites, and was condemned to death for what she had done. Now ...
- 323: Madness In Macbeth and Hamlet
- ... 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 ...
- 324: Fruedian Psychoanalysis With E
- ... Freud notes that these drives focus on the parent of the opposite sex such as in the relations between mother and son or between father and daughter. These drives are known as the so-called Oedipus and Electra complexes. These complexes may also spread to other relationships, such as Lisa s viewing of the love affair between her mother and uncle. However, most societies strongly disapprove of the sexual interests of ...
- 325: Antigone: Creon's Decisions and His Downfall
- ... gains wisdom through suffering. In order to be a tragic hero, you must first of all be of high birth. Creon was the brother of the Queen, and later went on to rule Thebes. After Oedipus was banished from Thebes the Kingship of the city was left to his two sons: Eteocles and Polynices. They agreed to rule Thebes on alternating years. Eteocles ruled Thebes the first year, while Polynices went ...
- 326: Euripides! Master! How Well Yo
- ... a woman, it appears....Infamous! Giving first place to a woman!" However, the contrast between Creon and Antigone renders these remarks part of the blindeness, egoism an stupidity that make Creon remiscent of Agamemnon and Oedipus. I was prepared to bristle at Euripides' treatment of women. Even in his own time, he was accused of misogyny by, among others, Aristophanes. In fact, legend has it that at his death he was ...
- 327: Euripedes Medea
- ... society, and so "Barbaric" lessons are learned and tables are turned when she murders her own children as revenge. Yeah, and you almost felt sorry for her for a minute, huh........ Bibliography Euripedes. Medea. Trans. Rex Warner. The Norton Anthology World Masterpieces. Gen. ed. Maynard Macket al. 7th ed. Vol.1. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992. 2 Vols. 739-772.
- 328: Julius Caesar
- ... rational means of recording time. A large number of senatorial families, however, felt that Caesar threatened their position in society, and his honors and powers made them weary that he would one day become a rex (king), a title they, as republicans, hated. Then, in 44BC, an assassination plot was hatched by a group of senators, including Gaius Cassius, who was believed to be the main head of the operation, and ...
- 329: Falkland Islands War Paper
- ... capital.(12) While a fierce guerrilla battle broke out between the Argentines and the British Marines at the Government House, the British soldiers never really had a sporting chance. At 6:00 that evening, Governor Rex Hunt, having surrendered to Argentine General Manuel Osvaldo Jorge Garcia, left the Falklands. (13) With the governors departure, the Falkland Islands fell into Argentine hands. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ensured that the English ...
- 330: Hamlet: Madman or Misunderstood
- ... his dissolving sanity as he tells Laertes that he killed Polonius in a fit of rage. Hamlet had violent outbursts towards his mother. They seemed to be out of jealousy as a result to the Oedipus complex. He alone saw his father's ghost in his mother's chambers. Every other time the ghost appeared, someone else had seen it. During this scene he finally shows his insanity when his mother ...
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