Catharsis

After the death of her brother Polyneices and father Oedipus, Antigone’s collective unconscious retreats into an inner conflict between life and death, paralleled in her the derivatives of her name, Anti-gone equating to against birth. Her sense of self is compelled towards in the identities of the dead, particularly exemplified in her morals embedded in her family’s honour. She becomes the epitome of the living death, whereby manifestations of love in marriage and children have been forbidden…

In this section I will address question #8, expressing competency 6: Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research. For this section, I will select a problem, which is affecting the clients seen at Daybreak. The clients who are being seen at this agency are suffering lack of social support from friends and family members. In this case, I will select Rosalie as the client with of lack of social support, more importantly losing the support of her husband. Others that are…

(289). By describing himself as physically “broken”, Amir implies the strain facing a Hero’s Journey can place upon the hero. Amir has struggled, he has pushed himself to the absolute limit. However, feeling “broken” in body ultimately serves as a catharsis for Amir. It allows Amir to release his damaged conscience and emerge “healed” inwardly. Through the struggles imposed by the Hero’s Journey, Amir is able to atone for his mistakes. He makes peace with himself and finds a balance between…

I think that Oedipus’s greatness comes from his soul. He leaves his home to avoid a horrible prophecy and protect his family only to walk strait into it. His greatness is present in his actions, when he defeats the Sphinx with his cunning and ability to solve the sphinx’s riddle. I think his cunning and loyalty to his city are part of his greatness but they also lead to his downfall. His needs to know the truth and stop the plague that has befallen his city, but this leads to the truth of the…

When I have music, I want to feel its vibration, not only with my ear but with my whole body, says the narrator of Invisible Man when he tries to justify his desire for listening Louis Armstrong’s song not on one, but on five radio-phonographs. Ralph Ellison’s novel is, in the first place, a radiography of a society in which the identity search was one of the most complicated tasks an African American could have achieved, because of the racism that was projected over them, creating a state of…

‘Tragic Hero’. A character is a prominent noble defected in some way and the flaw causes his downfall. After the punishment of his own action, he comes to a new sense of awareness. Usually this tragedy leaves traces on the audience – the audience ‘catharsis’. Macbeth exhibits the features of being a ‘Tragic Hero’ through the use of literary devices; mainly allusion, lexical field, and foreshadowing, in…

Shop windows, eyes of the city, is another way to show the motif of a double-ganger. Their hypnotic effect on Hans Beckert is shown in the scene 00:52:10 – 00:53:24 when we see him in a frame of the reflections on a glass and secondly the camera shows his view and his angle of reality: a girl Immediately actor’s acting explains the dramatic change in Beckert’s body language explained the condition of his mind. Sounds of the city immediately disappear and Beckert faces with his hidden nature.…

In Passing, Nella Larsen’s characters’ Clare and Irene struggle to disentangle themselves from their self inflicted crises and conflate their ontological as well as cultural identities. Larsen employs Clare Kendry to personify the consequences of disconnecting from one's true sense of self. Larsen utilizes the age old cautionary tale to confirm that extricating oneself from predetermined conventional roles in society engenders major conflict, which possesses the potential for catastrophic…

Psychological perspectives vary and develop over time; early models provide foundations for new perspectives concerning the workings of the psyche: functionality, structures, origin of behaviors, and procedures for treatment. In consideration of the aforementioned psychological aspects, one must also deliberate the theory epoch. Therefore, engineering, transportation, testing equipment, and instruments, ethical, legal, and cultural considerations, within theorist’s lives and treatment…

Noah from Genesis 6-11 and Job of The Book of Job, as characters, are similar individuals, however, the actions taken by them separates their views. They both undergo a change in identity and one character is affected more than the other and has the courage to questioned God, which is Job. However, examining closely, one can see the structure that is presented by the author in Genesis 6-11 and The Book of Job and each are quite different. In Genesis 6-11, it uses structure as well as tone, to…