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- 281: 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 ...
- 282: Madness In Macbeth and Hamlet
- ... 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 ...
- 283: Psychological Origins Of Frank
- ... can loathe, fear, and reject her baby has until recently been one of the most repressed of psychoanalytical insights, although it is of course already implicit in the story of Oedipus, whose parents cast him out as an infant to die. There are several parallels between the monster and Mary. First she identifies with the monster (as a rejected child). She ...
- 284: 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 ...
- 285: The Sanity Of Hamlet
- ... Laertes that he killed Polonius in a fit of madness. 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 ...
- 286: Antigone: Creon's Decisions and His Downfall
- ... 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 ...
- 287: Hamlet: The Tragic Hero
- ... 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 ...
- 288: Tragic Hero Characterization I
- ... cursed him for feasting him on his own children's flesh. Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, who inherited the curse. Antigone also inherited a family curse. Her father, Oedipus, passed a curse along to all of his children after unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother. Because of the curses passed along to both Antigone and Agamemnon, their ...
- 289: Hamlet: Madman or Misunderstood
- ... 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 ...
- 290: Hamlet: Sane or Insane
- ... 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 ...
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