Electra

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet displays the power of suppressing thoughts and the toll it takes on the abilities of an individual. Society has the capability to define what is the right and wrong way for a person to think and act. Hamlet’s Oedipus Complex is socially unacceptable and therefore must be repressed, tampering with Hamlet’s abilities to function like a normal man. Hamlet’s sadness, inability to act, and poor decisions are a reflection of his Oedipal entanglement with Gertrude and his…

BESC1490 Introduction to Psychology Week 8 Personality 1. Personality refers to an individual’s distinctive behaviour, patterns of thought, feelings and motivations that are shown in various situations. There are two theories that have been studied for personality, ‘Structure of personality’ and ‘Individual differences.’ The ‘structure of personality’ is the organisation of enduring patterns and personality processes, whereas ‘individual differences’ is the way of people vary in personality…

Women in The Big Sleep As I have mentioned before, this was true in the case of the rise of feminism. Before the turn of the century, “Women arrived, en masse, [to the Western frontier], and the ‘male-dominated homosocial world of gold rush California’ gave way to a ‘settled domestic Victorian discipline’” (Hoefer 49). That ‘Victorian discipline’ gave way in the 1920s to a deviant social norm, exemplified by Carmen and to a lesser extent Vivian. Right before Marlowe expresses how much he…

INLS 131: Penina Matthew Carroll July 2002 Electra-Quik Case Study The main problem of this case study lies in the existing corporate culture of the business and the newness of the proposed company revisions. Electra-Quik is an established company that has historically done well until recently, when a host of problems ranging from outside competition to company moral became apparent. It would be nice to know more information concerning the extent of the company’s problems, but since…

In the book of Euripides, three specific characters are included in the plays. The three characters are Medea, Hecuba, and Electra. Starting with Medea, I feel that she is a person that does not care about anything and she also is not afraid to hold anything back and say what’s on her mind just like ways of a man. Medea is a cold blooded killer without showing any hesitation. I have met some people who can relate to Medea’s ways. Now talking about Hecuba, she is sort of like Medea but not as…

The son of the King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae. After Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War, he was killed by his wife and his cousin Aegisthus. Orestes, a young boy at the time of his father's murder was smuggled to safety by Electra, his sister and taken to stay with their father's old friend King Strophius of Phocis. Strophius raised Orestes with his son Pylades, they became close friends. Upon manhood, Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, since it was the best way to…

their actions were the opposite of their aspirations, cruel yet generosity, dishonest yet cruel truthfulness, revengeful yet honored justice. Three of the plays look to Athens for redemption while they are set in other cities: Medea in Corinth, Electra in Argos, and Heracles in Thebes. Along with Socrates, Euripides represented new movements in moral social and political areas in Athens society which followed two of his interests, philosophy and science. Euripides used his plays to comment on…

The production of Iphigenia and Other Daughters, an adaptation by Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Marya Sea Kaminski, is about a family set on avenging deaths that have wrecked their lives. It takes place in both Ancient Greek and World War 1. In Ancient Greek woman were inferior to men. They did not have any say in their lives and were viewed as property. In this case they were not allowed to exact revenge on behalf of their loved ones that was a man’s right. The fact that Clymnestra did…

her first meeting with her long-lost brother shows her sitting at the base of her father’s grave looking forlorn (Figure 4). This is the Electra vase painters prefer to paint: docile and submissive, she completes the role expected of her as a daughter with no indication that she might have larger goals for revenge. While both Greek Tragedy and drama show Electra adhering to gender norms, text versions of her tale have the potential to bring her motivation into question, while vases simply show…

In both ancient and modern narratives, recognition scenes have proven to be some of the most emotionally charged moments in a story. Choephori is no exception, as siblings Electra and Orestes’ recognition of each other after a long separation and multiple familial tragedies stirs up a strong emotional reaction in the audience. This popular narrative device has persisted over time, and is still present in modern fiction. The Spanish film La Piel que Habito closes with a powerful recognition…