Electra

Snow White has become a story that is cherished for its innocent love story and how the protagonist was able to defeat the evil stepmother. However, there is much more to the story than can be perceived. In various versions of the Snow White tale, what fuels the entire story is the competition between Snow White and the stepmother. Without this female competition, there would not be any plot whatsoever and the tale would not have any purpose. The female competition is encouraged by the male…

How humans respond, how humans behave, how humans are interesting to others and how humans are different to others are all influenced by a person’s personality. Personality is the tendencies within a person that influences how they respond to their environment. There are different approaches to personality. One being the nomothetic approach which focuses on identifying the general laws that are put in place for all. The other being idiographic approach that focuses on identifying unique…

influence on the Greek drama as Sophocles. Throughout his lifetime, Sophocles wrote one hundred and twenty plays. Unfortunately, only seven of his works have survived in their entirety. The list of plays include: Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex). His works focused heavily on the concepts of misery and tragedy. Several of his most famous Theban plays feature the character Oedipus such as Oedipus Rex. Oedipus Rex is…

poems. Otto Plath died on the night of November 5, 1940, and when the eight-year-old Sylvia was informed of her father's death, she proclaimed "I'll never speak to God again" (neuroticpoets.com). Shortly after visiting her fathers grave, Plath wrote 'Electra on Azalea Path'. "The day you died I went into the dirt [...] I am the ghost of an infamous suicide, My own blue razor rusting in my throat" (Plath). This poem specifically focuses on her feelings towards her fathers death and connects to…

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation “Every two minutes, a woman in the U.S. is diagnosed with breast cancer” (“Breast Cancer Research”). Breast cancer is a disease that is found in the breasts, and is typically only found in women. There are charities that were created specifically to help find a prevention and cure to breast cancer, such as the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). Although the Breast Cancer Research Foundation can not guarantee that the money will find a cure, it…

Aeschylus’s trilogy The Oresteia is a play of immense proportions, and at its heart it is a study of morality and the palpable tension of the competing ideas of dikē – justice or right. It depicts a societal change from one form of justice and law to another; from the law of the old gods to the law of the new. The third play in the trilogy, The Eumenides, depicts the culmination of this conflict, where all the individual conflicts reach their conclusions and the overarching themes of the trilogy…

pronoun “he” continues to guide her. It also alludes that she may have once been comfortable with her gender identity, but since her father left, she isn’t able to fully conform to the idea of woman so perhaps,so could this be what we now know as the “Electra Complex.” This could also suggest that she believes there is a constant battle between the sexes - so in order to fulfil her plans, she has to use supernatural forces, with interrogatives that act as intensifiers, “unsex her here”. She is…

The aim of this essay is to translate Freuds key theories of personality and the human development. This essay will show how Freud understands the human drives, how he came about the model of consciousness and also the defences against anxiety, and lastly Freud's theory of psychosexual development, Freud was also known as a psychiatrist who discovered psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud understood the human drive as the life drive (Eros) and the death drive (Thanatos). he (saw) the two drives as…

Abstract The client I am going to be talking about is a twelve month old Latino female named Anna. Anna is a typical 12 month old toddler who’s refusing to cooperate with toilet training. The theories I am going to discussing associated with this behavior will be Freud's psychosexual development theory, Erikson's psychosocial theory, and Piaget's cognitive development stage theory. In discussing these theories, it will provide a better understanding Anna’s situation, behavior, and how to best…

E)|projection.| 17.|When Professor McKay nervously began teaching a college class for the first time, he overestimated the extent to which his students would notice that he was anxious. His reaction best illustrates:| A)|self-serving bias.| B)|an Electra complex.| C)|the spotlight effect.| D)|reaction formation.| E)|reciprocal…