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- 361: David Lynchs Blue Velvet
- ... Frank ( Daddy or Baby ) ( Blue Velvet (1986) , http://www.filmsite.org/blue.html). If we accept Dirks suggestion then we need to consider Jeffrey s sexual attraction towards Dorothy as a sign of a hidden Oedipus complex. Frank s obsession with the song In Dreams may also have a Freudian significance, however, it may also be seen to imply that Jeffrey s journey is not into reality but into his dreams ...
- 362: God V. Man In Antigone
- ... Kreon: I tell you, Kreon, you yourself have brought This new calamity upon us. Our hearths and altars Are stained with the corruption of dogs and carrion birds That glut themselves on the corpse of Oedipus s son. The gods are deaf when we pray to them, their fire Recoils from our offering, their birds of omen Have no cry of comfort, for they are gorged With the thick blood of ...
- 363: Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus
- ... These lines are utilized by Sophocles as a suspenseful introduction to Creon's orders concerning the body of Polynices. The chorus's next appearance blatantly shows their biased attitudes against Antigone and her exiled father Oedipus. At this point they still sing praise for King Creon and his unwavering decisions concerning the law which was placed upon the city regarding the body of Polynices: When he weaves in the laws of ...
- 364: Hamlet Essay
- ... he killed Polonius in a fit of madness [Act V, scene II, lines 236-250] 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 ...
- 365: Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz
- ... into the phallic stage. Freud describes the phallic stage as a period when the "sexual impulses and object relations of a child's early years become reanimated, and amongst them the emotional ties of its Oedipus Complex"( An Autobiographical Study 23). Dorothy now switches her focus from the mother to father. By killing the witch and giving the broomstick to the Wizard, Dorothy is enstilled with a new sense of power ...
- 366: The Odyssey The Role Of Prophe
- ... gods advice of using a sacrificial bird (349). Moreover, prophecy can be negative as well as positive. Achilles was prophesied to die gloriously in battle if he chose his life s way as a warrior. Oedipus was exiled and condemned by his own words, after he slew his sire and wed his mother. This type of prophesy can blind even the gods themselves; Chronos was fated to be defeated and his ...
- 367: Newfoundland
- ... in her plaited hair, in her Sunday dress. Men, with their moustaches and their chiselled faces, managed somehow to become monuments to themselves in their coffins. Women, when they turned cold, left blank. Bibliography Clark, Rex. Contrary winds: essays on Newfoundland society in crisis. Breakwater, 1986, St. John's, Nfld. MacFarlane, David. The Danger Tree. MacFarlane, Walter and Ross; Toronto, Ontario Mackenzie, David Clark. Inside the Atlantic triangle: Canada and the ...
- 368: The Awakening: Triumph Over Tragedy
- ... all. As the story unfolds the fact that it is not a tragedy becomes more and more apparent. Lastly, the concluding pages of the Awakening highlight just how far from a tragedy the novel is. Oedipus gouges his eyes out in excruciating remorse and self loathing. Romeo and Juliet both perish side by side for a love which could never bloom. These endings all have the elements of horror, and sadness ...
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