First They Killed My Father

At the first sight of the play Romeo and Juliet, one would suspect it to be a love story. The reader must actually read the play in order to find out that it is not a love story, but it is a story about Romeo, who is obsessed with a Juliet the second he sees her. Romeo’s obsession and desperation lead to a story of secrets, so called “love”, and death. In the play, Romeo’s girl obsession got him into several sticky situations. At first, Romeo said he is in love with Rosaline. He was obsessed…

angel. The father is shown as a powerful figure in the child’s life with evidence shown in the phrase “old No-Sayer”. This means ‘the one who opposes’ and this confirms that he could be the one that makes the decisions, decides yes or no, in the family. In the second stanza, the father is “robbed of power”, this is because he is asleep. He cannot hold the child back or tell her no, he wields no power while asleep. I think the young girl takes the father’s gun because of the issue the father…

Shakespeare skillfully unfolds is full of unexpected and twisted events. Overall Hamlet is a beautifully written piece of literature that has many interesting scenes. Three of my favorite scenes from Hamlet include the following: Act I, Scene 2; Act 3, Scene I; and Act V, Scene II. The first scene I have selected as one of my favorites gives the reader a closer look at the characters’ personalities. In this scene, Hamlet is still deeply sorrowful for his father’s death meanwhile King…

During World War 2 many people were killed, more importantly, millions of Jews had been killed by lethal dictator Hitler. A significant passage in the book is found on page 105, “But while he was thinking this his feet were taking him, step by step, closer and closer to the dot in the distance, which in the meantime had become a peck, and then began to show every sign of turning into a blob. And shortly after that the blob became a figure. And then, as Bruno got even closer, he saw that the…

establishing his hubristic nature, in order to emphasize how excessive pride and arrogance results in the tragic downfall of an individual. When the reader is first introduced to Creon, his overly arrogant nature is evident through his interactions with others. After arresting Antigone and sentencing her to death, Haimon goes to his father and implores him to free his fiancee. Creon, in response to his son, justifies his behavior by saying, Do you want me to show myself weak before the people?…

not seeing the truth. The first instance of “blindness” begins when Oedipus believes that Polybus and Merope are his biological parents. However, this was not the truth because his actual parents tried to kill him as newborn but the shepherd…

Dream Theories My first theory that I list would be Sigmund Freud theory that dreams focus primarily on sexual desires and symbolism. "I found in myself a constant love for my mother, and jealousy of my father. I now consider this to be a universal event in childhood," Freud said. His thoughts was that children were more fond to the opposite sex parent. He used the Oedipus conflict to point out how much he believed that people desire incest and must repress that desire. Oedipus was the…

faces downfall as he is not able to act on the revenge of his father’s death. His downfall is his fatal flaw of not being able to decide if vengeance is right or wrong. At first, Hamlet is eager to avenge his father’s death: HAMLET. Haste me to know’t, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge (1.5.29-31). This is Hamlet’s reply to the ghost who tells him to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet’s flaw of indecisiveness will affect how he reacts to…

chains shackling me to the past I will no longer pollute my heart with bitterness, fear, distrust or anger. I forgive you because hate is just another way of holding on, and you don’t belong here anymore.”-Beau Taplin. Elie Wiesel, author of Night and survivor of the Holocaust, he tells all in his memoir, Night. In his memoir, he expresses his true feelings while living through the Holocaust. Wiesel forgive the ones who tortured and killed his family and millions of others, but he wrote his…

Hamlet faces a tough decision when he learns King Claudius kills his father. Should he avenge his father’s death or is the ghost a devil trying to tell him something else? This dilemma is presented in similar context for Laertes and Fortinbras. Although their situations are similar, however, each person handles their problem in a different manner. The rage made…