Oedipus the King by Sophocles Essay

transformation of the gift Gawain receives from Morgan Le Fay, a green girdle. Initially, the girdle is a symbol of protection; however, when Gawain breaks his contract with the Green Knight, it becomes a symbol of personal shame. Once Gawain returns to King Arthur’s court, though, the girdle is adopted as a symbol for the Knights of the Round Table, making it a public symbol of the knights’ code. Despite this public absolution of Gawain’s sin, the knight’s personal shame never self-absolved.…

making such laws that involved hanging a person and cruel punishments for even the smallest things. He had said that those laws were meant to protect and make life easier for his people. In the speech he had given, he had sounded like a great and caring King, but in reality he wasn’t great or caring. He was killing his own people for little things like robberies and false building of a house. He may have even been lying about the god, Shamash, giving him the laws and the code, when he may have…

Dmitri is set up throughout the entire novel to take the fall for his father’s death. He does himself no favors in this regard, as he declares his intention to commit parricide multiple times and physically assaults his father. Dmitri is set up throughout the novel to be Cain. The jury decides he is the murderer of a close family member and is marked in the eyes of society much like Cain is cast away from God’s presence. This is not, however, Dmitri’s fate. Dmitri does not finally commit the…

"There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man." ~Aristotle Let's face it. We have all said things that were dumb, foolish, and uninspiring. Surprisingly, the reason why so many good leaders say such foolish things is because they often do not recognize them as foolish or unwise. Also, they came up in a culture where the same things were said to them and, just like all of us, they learned how to lead from watching the actions and behaviors of other successful leaders. In this…

The Plague by Albert Camus is a novel that demonstrates the selfishness of the people of Oran, Algeria as they fall victim to a plague, causing the entire town to be quarantined. The book’s narrator, Dr. Bernard Rieux, shows his viewpoint of the citizens of Oran through his remark, “In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences.” The Plague was written not only to demonstrate how selfish…

Erik Ravelo, the artist who created the text above, had always gotten his artwork censored as he had always created multiple controversial and offensive images for its audience. “Los Intocables” is one out of his many artworks that had brought up arguments and debates regarding his approach to communicate and manifest the deeper meaning behind the picture. Ravelo created “Los Intocables”, which interprets to “The Untouchables” to promote a campaign – Unhate foundation campaign, with the theme of…

Oedipus Theme Essay The story of Oedipus Rex is about how an unfortunate man named Oedipus, who seeks to find his true identity. Creon, a close friend to Oedipus, aids him in his search by requesting help from multiple people, Tiresias is one of them, as well as a Herald from Corinth, and a Shepherd. They tell him that his wife, Jocasta, is his mom and the former king, Laius, who he believes he killed, was his dad. Jocasta finds out about this as well and ended up hanging herself,…

Throughout the story of “Candide” by Voltaire, there were development of one theme. The theme of this novel could be that it is not the best of all possible world, so people should improve and take action on the things they have to be able to live in a more productive and happy life. This is shown throughout the story where Candide faces through many challenges along his journey, and in the end saw that being productive in an enjoyable way takes away all the tiredness, evil behaviors and want.…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, Chillingworth is guilty of Dimmesdale’s death. For one he tries to poison Dimmesdale with some medicine, he makes him suffer mentally, and he tortures him for it all and tries to make him feel guilty for all that he’s done. Chillingworth believes that Dimmesdale was the father of Pearl, Prynne’s baby after he found out that she got pregnant from Dimmesdale. Chillingworth came to visit Hester, only to find out she was in prison for committing…

The Absurd represents the realization that despite all of one’s efforts and suffering, life amounts to nothing but an insignificant passage of time, regardless of what one might achieve in his life. Once one recognizes the absurdity of life, Camus argues that one cannot simply revert to a life of ignorance and naiveté. Instead, one can either succumb one’s self to the pessimistic perspective of the world or affirm his life in light of the Absurd and rebel against the indifference of the world.…