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- 241: The Tragedy of Hamlet
- ... 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 ...
- 242: Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz
- ... 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 ...
- 243: God V. Man In Antigone
- ... 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 ...
- 244: King Lear
- ... overall effect of this secret is crucial to the development of the tragedy. This technique is seen in many tragedies. In "Oepidus Rex", the secret during this story is that Oedipus married his mother and killed his father, in" Romeo and Juliet" it is their secret love, and in "Desire Under the Elms" it is that the son is the secret ...
- 245: The Odyssey The Role Of Prophe
- ... 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 ...
- 246: Sigmund Freud
- ... person's psychology, and that sexuality was present even in infants. He shocked society when he published these ideas in 1905. His most well-known theory is that of the "Oedipus complex" -- that in children (boys, that is) there is a sexual attraction towards the mother and a sense of jealousy to the point of hatred of the father. He later ...
- 247: Essay on Greek family
- Essay on Greek family Author: Rourke Ohmes During Greek times, Oedipus committed the worst crime by marrying his mother and killing his father. The Greeks never looked down upon any criminal like they would look down upon someone who went against ...
- 248: Literal Interpretation in Literature
- ... of the father visit upon the children", certainly applies to the circumstances of the Greek drama Antigone. In this drama, the core conflict is a result of a curse on Oedipus when he kills his father. This conflict demonstrates man vs. the laws of the sate. This is the conflict that hurts following generations. Antigone wants to marry her brother, but ...
- 249: Freud And Jung
- ... preoccupation with sex may have developed from his own personal experiences with it. As a child, Freud developed a sexual attachment to his mother. Through this experience Freud developed the Oedipus complex--a boy's longing for his mother and desire to replace his father in the phallic stage of development. Furthermore, Freud believed that sex was the basis of most ...
- 250: Freud 2
- ... associations of the patient to guide him in the interpretation of dreams and slips of speech. Dream analysis led to his discoveries of infantile sexuality and of the so-called Oedipus complex, which constitutes the erotic attachment of the child for the parent of the opposite sex, together with hostile feelings toward the other parent. In these years he also developed ...
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