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- 301: War - How British Literature H
- ... his time. Another author of war was Frank O Connor. O Connor was not part of the war but seemed to know a lot about it. In his story My Oedipus Complex, he talks about a boy who s father has been away at war and then returns home. This gave us an idea of what life would be like at ...
- 302: Antigone: Who Is The Strongest Tragic Figure?
- ... the body of Polynecies for the animals, he can not let the people of the kingdom believe his mind can be swayed even by the daughter of the late king, Oedipus-he must act as a strong king. This is where his hubris comes into play which later leads to his error in judgment with Teresias and finally, the realization of ...
- 303: 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 ...
- 304: Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus
- ... 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 ...
- 305: Lord Of The Flies By William G
- ... increased awareness of bowel movement during the toilet-training period in toddlers. Golding notes that the younger boys call out for their mothers rather than their fathers, hinting at the Oedipus complex. If the abandoned boys are representative of the aspects of the human individual, then the lush, rich bounty of the island suggest the resources available to the individual. The ...
- 306: Fruedian Psychoanalysis With E
- ... 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 ...
- 307: Macbeth: Macbeth - A Tragic Hero
- ... tragic hero is created, not through his own villainy), but rather through some flaw in him, he being one of those who are in high station and good fortune, like Oedipus and Thyestes and the famous men of such families as those." (Poetics, Aristotle). Every great tragedy is dominated by a protagonist who has within himself a tragic flaw, too much ...
- 308: Hamlet: Theories Of Hamlet's Delay In Killing Claudius
- ... theory I can believe is Sigmund Freud's. Freud published a paper on Hamlet suffering from an Oedipal complex. An Oedipal complex is a theory Freud developed from Sophicles' play, Oedipus Rex.. When a boy does not lose his "lust" (for lack of a better word) for his mother past a certain age, that individual suffers from an Oedipal complex. This ...
- 309: Hamlet: "To Be Insane or Not To Be Insane That Tis The Question"
- ... Here Hamlet demonstrates his rage by saying that his mother did not wear black or cry long for his departed father. Here the reader can see the beginning of the Oedipus comlex. Hamlet hating his new father, yet still loving his mother even though she was part of the plot to kill his father. Many scholars have said, "If Hamlet had ...
- 310: Euripides! Master! How Well Yo
- ... 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 ...
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