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Introduction: As society restructures itself it becomes more civilized. The Hunger Games takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. It consists of human behavior experience such as Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology. The ‘Hunger Games’ a complex study of Social Science. Anthropology: Cultural Relativist explains two cultures cannot be compared because each culture has its own internal rules that must be accepted. Everyone sees other cultures differently and should avoid passing on…

Eumenides summary Atreus and Thyestes are competing for the throne of Argos. Thyestes seduced his brother’s wife and was driven out of Argos by his brother. When Thyestes returns he and his brother seem to be cool with each other. At least that’s what Thyestes thinks. Atreus looks to seek revenge for what his brother did. Atreus murdered the two sons of Thyestes, and had them chopped up and cooked to be served to their father at his honor banquet. When Thyestes finds out he has eaten his sons,…

Marlow’s admiration of Kurtz stems from his belief that Kurtz is truthful. Kurtz, after all, was appalled because of the truth he knew; he spoke of “the horror” that he had witnessed and committed. The truth, then, becomes a significant theme in Marlow’s mind, in Kurtz’s character, and in Conrad’s writing. The truth controls Kurtz and represents what he is and what he has become. Kurtz’s last words expressed “the appalling face of a glimpsed truth.” As he dies, he sees “the horror” of all the…

In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov and Sonia faced alienation. Raskolsdtnikovs detachment from moral codes allows him to rationalize his actions and mentally set himself apart from the world that he finds so hateful and ordinary, while Sonia uses her religion as a means to deliberately isolate herself, this sanctuary is the only source of hope and purity within her destitute life. Raskolnikov is lacking in many emotional areas, but the most noticeable area across the bored is that of…

A Tragic Hero The play I am writing about is Antigone by Sophocles, a greek tragic playwright. The main characters are Creon and Antigone, but as the play goes on it becomes more about Creon and his hamartia. Hamartia is a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero. A character named Teiresias who is a prophet serves as a foil for Creon’s character by highlighting Creon’s stubbornness, anger, and disrespect towards the other characters. When Teiresias passes his argument in…

The word “stigma” originated from the Greek language refers to the actions and gestures used to express something that is noticed as unusual and bad enough. The term stigma has been studied by Erving Goffman. According to Goffman (1963) stigma refers to an attribute that deeply discredits the possessor. Stigma has a great influence on the self esteem of the individual. The role and status of the individual from the common man’s normalcy change to a strange man. The perception of the society…

The most significant theme in Sophocles’ Antigone is whether or not human law conquers the divine law. The chorus sums up both sides of the argument best when they say, “When the laws are kept, how proudly his city stands! When the laws are broken, what of his city then?” (lines 297-298). The divine law, or “Law of God” express the moral or ethical beliefs or actions that embody God’s will and is more eternal. On the contrary, human law, or “Law of Man”, chronicles a set of rules of behavior…

The Lightning Thief Summary In the Myth Of Cronus,Cronus is known as the youngest of the Titans and the god of time. Uranus,Cronus’ father,was embarrassed by the way his children looked (cyclops). To put an end to his embarrassment,Uranus put all of his monstrous children in a pit under the earth. Both the Cronus myth and The Lightning Thief share a similar theme of fate and prophecy because in both stories a figure is getting a prophecy. I think that the theme in the Cronus myth was fate…

Struggling with god's law and man's law has always been a recurring issue throughout mankind. In the play Antigone by Sophocles man’s and god's laws also reappears throughout the story. The two types of laws are very different, god’s law depends on faith and man's law can be set by a democracy or a monarchy. Whether one believes in god’s law or man’s these laws keep civil order and peace, but that does not mean that these laws cannot create moral conflict every now and then. In the play Antigone…

Every king is a mean tyrant? Maybe, maybe not … Creon and Oedipus are similar with their short temper, but different in how their stories plays out and their choices. They are similar by them both having a temper when not hearing what they want to hear. For instance, when Oedipus was trying figure out who killed Laius, Oedipus said to Tiresias, “What a wicked old man you are” (Sophocles 18). Oedipus lost it on Teiresias because Teiresias was giving Oedipus indirect answers not saying what…