Antigone

Ultimate Defeat of Oroonoko Defeat is usually not so a thing you should be hoping for nor looking forward too, it can lead to a road of sorrow. Defeat is a tough thing to handle especially when the defeat comes at the expense of your life or a loved one. In the story “Oroonoko; or The Royal Slave” Oroonoko exceled at anything and everything. Oroonoko had it all from the looks, to the charm, to the fame, to the ladies, and to the brains. Life was all smooth for Oroonoko until he choose to act…

In the Argument between Achilles and Agamemnon, Achilles’ argument is more reasonable. Agamemnon should be able to give up his prize without much hesitation. Should his pride and his ‘prize’ be placed above the lives of his people? As the ruler of the kingdom, he should be able to place the lives of his people over his pride. That, in it’s own way, would be worth more faith and honor from his people than owning one woman. It would be selfish to demand that Achilles should hand over the woman…

I watch upon my son, Sarpedon with my lovely wife only to see him began to fight with Patroclus. My son, a great fighter, fight another fills my heart with pity. I turn my head to see my dazzling queen, Hera and I say with sadness, “ How can Sarpendon, the son I love the most, sign his own death wish to Patroclus. There is so much I feel because of this but only so much I can express. Should I take him away to Lycia, a vibrant green land distant from Troy and all its blood or beat him with…

Charles Darnay’s return to France was his way of embracing and fulfilling fate because it is his role as the Marquis to be aristocratic, and to die with the revolution. In Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay leaves his new home in England with the Manettes to return to his early home in France. Earlier in this book he renounced his evil, aristocratic family and moves to England, where he marries Lucie Manette and begins his second life. When the revolution starts, Darnay…

Billy proceeds to go onto his knees pleading to Nurse Ratched to not tell his mother, Billy’s continues to scream no to Nurse Ratched telling his mother what had happened. Forman wants us to see that she had really put Billy into a bad state of mind, by saying that she was the cause for his death because she was going to tell his mother which made reminded him of how ashamed she would be of him so Billy would need to kill himself for in order of his mother not to be ashamed in him. The overall…

For your country to be held in higher esteem then your mother and farther would mean that you hold the importance of the group over individualism. To do this would mean that you hold a sense of duty to the powers at is. In the case of the Crito, Socrates is to be sentenced to death by forced suicide. His charge is that he is a blasphemer and corrupter of the youth which he vehemently denies. So with this passage being from the Crito we all know that Socrates didn’t do so good at his trail and…

The conflict of “Raymond’s Run” is between Squeaky, who is the fastest runner in her Harlem neighborhood, and Mr. Pearson, the May Day race director. The conflict started when Mr. Pearson said “Wouldn’t it be a nice gesture if you were… to ahhh…” on page 552, and Squeaky took this as offensive, she already knew what he was going to ask and that was to lose the race on purpose. Therefore, Mr. Pearson was being rude and Squeaky did not appreciate it, that is where the conflict comes in play…

Her scarred hands twitched imperceptibly as she plucked the glass from his grasp, face as unreadable as the statues in the museum not too far away. It almost felt like a dream -- unreal and untrustworthy, the scene that played out before her. It was not her right, to meet with Roman upon the rooftop, god-like conspirators deciding the fate of the mortals that milled about below them. More and more often she had to remind herself that she had not always been a god, but had once been something…

A little over two decades after his fall to the Dark Side, Anakin (as Darth Vader) eventually returns to the Light Side of the Force. I argue that his acceptance of Stoic values near the conclusion of Return of the Jedi allows him to redeem himself. Throughout the prequel trilogies, Anakin does show some hints of Stoic values, even though he consistently fails to uphold them and refuses to follow the Jedi Code. After he executes Count Dooku, he comments to Palpatine that he should not have…

Coriolanus acted as an arrogant and strong soldier in order to keep his quo status as a Patrician, but he traded off this status for the pardon of his family. Deliberately, this transformation dragged him down to his own ruin. In the first line, Coriolanus response what Audifius said about his response to Coriolanus’ speech. He was moved by the speech of his mother; therefore, he conveys his boldness (3) (dare) towards Aufidius. In other words, he denotes a changing of his arrogance for…