Oedipus the King by Sophocles Essay

In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Dark Knight/ The Dark Knight Rises by Christopher Nolan, their common theme is that law and order in human society can only prevail when there are people fighting for it, otherwise the society will collapse into chaos. For Golding’s defense of this message, his book declares a very clear stance that law and order can only prevail when there are people supporting it, when that is lost, chaos will insume. The protagonist’s sidekick, Piggy,…

When all hope becomes shrouded in hopelessness and despair, can anyone remain optimistic? In the story of Candide by Voltaire, the idea of optimism and philosophy is heavy satire. In his writing, Voltaire puts Candide in situations that are heavily fantasized with exaggerated coincidence. Voltaire played with this idea to keep readers interested in Candide’s adventure and always have a reason not to create new scenarios and characters as the story progress. Candide’s adventure would also serve…

A true hero is somebody with courage or ability, he or she is admired for his or her brave deeds and noble qualities. As a reader, if you are reading the Odyssey then you will read about a character Odysseus. Reading the Odyssey you have to know what type of person Odysseus is. The reader has to determine whether Odysseus is a hero or a bad person. Odysseus is a hero because he disguised himself as a beggar to see how the suitors were treating his land and his wife, Penelope and he came home,…

In the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, the main character, Hester Prynne, has committed a sin that everyone in the town considers very unforgivable and her ex-husband, Roger Chillingworth, has come back into town to get revenge on the man who Hester has had relations with. Another American gothic novel by Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, includes the main character, Ishmael, going on a whaling adventure with Captain Ahab, who happens to have his own plan of only hunting the white…

Hierarchy of Knowledge “Mr. Kane was a man that lost almost everything he had… So, maybe Rosebud was something that he lost…” Citizen Kane is considered to be the greatest film ever made. Orson Welles had the ultimate freedom of directing this film in an innovative way that is not in chronological order. The film begins with the camera focused on an old man’s mouth, which whispers one word: "Rosebud." The old man then drops the globe, which rolls onto the floor and shatters. After a moment of…

Willy Loman makes some decisions. Willy is a salesman that is constantly lying to himself about where he stands in the world. He decides to take his life because he thinks it is the best decision. So, is Willy Loman a tragic hero in this story? King says, “Aristotle defines a tragic hero as “a person who must evoke a sense of pity and fear in the audience. He is considered a man of misfortune that comes to him through error of judgment” and brings his downfall to evoke the feelings of pity…

Hook. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the eponymous title character buries her brother Polyneices, even though the king had made a law stating that no one shall bury him, as he is a traitor to his state. In the real world, the Taliban tried to ban girls’ schooling in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, and resident Malala Yousafzai spoke up through a blog, fighting for every youth’s right to quality education. She was nearly killed when she was shot by the Taliban; however, she managed to recover.…

Percy Shelley wrote that “ A poet is a nightingale that, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” Shelley was a proponent of the romantic idealism of individuality, as was Edmund Rostand in his work, Cyrano de Bergerac. In this piece, Rostand creates a contrast between the conformity of realism and the romantic ideal of singularity utilizing the two characters of Le Bret and Cyrano. Le Bret, in the beginning of the excerpt, makes a disparaging comment…

repent. Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven, But fearful echoes thunder in mine ears 'Faustus, thou art damn'd!" this reflects how conflicted and divided Faustus is internally. In contrast to Pentheus, who’s only concern is his image as the king of…

The Epic of Gilgamesh and Rama and Ravana in Battle, the archetypal types of heroes are shown. Each, in their own ways to satisfy the thoughts of the audiences’ own opinions of a real hero. Gilgamesh, two-thirds a god, and one-third a man, was the king of Uruk. He was very powerful but arrogant. Suddenly, when his best friend, Enkidu dies, “For the first time, Gilgamesh is faced with a situation he cannot control. He also experiences…