Hubris

not the titular character, Antigone. Instead, the defining traits of a tragic hero, which, according to Aristotle, include the inability to achieve his desired goal due to the limits of human frailty, realization about his own fate, and overwhelming hubris, build Creon up as the tragic hero. Creon displays his pride in the refusal of advice and in his failure of keeping his word to Thebes, which ultimately leads…

‘It was the immortals that had the greatest influence on Odysseus delayed nostos to Ithaca.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? Odysseus: valiant, intelligent, cunning, and proud. It was these traits that contributed to his delayed nostos. The all-powerful gods, though hindering Odysseus in his travels, are not nearly as responsible for this extensive delay as the epic hero. Needlessly making stopovers in various islands, and encroaching on his crew’s responsibilities, Odysseus’…

Charley is not—liked. He’s liked, but he’s not–-well liked” (Miller 2428). Willy’s obsession with being “well liked” is linked to his affection to the story of Dave Singleman, a successful salesman who was “well liked.” Willy has a false sense of hubris, which fuels his reluctant response to Charlie’s offer. He argues to Biff that Charlie does not have the connections and relationships with people that a “well-liked” person has, when in reality Willy himself does not. Willy is becoming less…

During the late sixteenth century, Spain had been fueled with fervor for colonial expansion. This reflected the European ideology of the time, which entailed the culturally myopic notion that Europe was the paragon of civilization, and that European nations had not only the right but also the obligation to civilize and westernize barbaric people from barbaric cultures, and to seize and imperialistically re-appropriate their foreign land. Jan Van Der Straet’s allegory “Discovery of America:…

together, they will grow quite fond of eachother. Through thick and thin, the companionship between knights will prevail. For example, when the Frankish army was losing the battle, Roland and Oliver had a falling out. Oliver believes that Roland’s hubris and care for his personal reputation was the cause of the death of their men. Oliver tells Roland, “Today our loyal comradeship is at it’s end; before evening there will be a sorrowful farewell” (84). Although Oliver planned to part ways with…

Gandhi once said, “Anger is the enemy of non violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.” Pride and honor meant a lot to ancient Greeks but in the play Antigone by Sophocles, the reader sees that too much pride can prove to be a fatal flaw. At the start of the play, both Antigone and Creon seem to be morally justified in their quests. Antigone simply wants to bury her brother, who had died in battle, but Creon demands that nobody touch the body because he had died fighting against…

Achilles was an infamous Greek warrior during the Trojan War, and the central character of Homer’s Iliad. Achilles, like McMurphy, lead their lives by the human condition of mortality, with all ordeals defining heroic life(3). Both men possessed hubris, monolithic personalities. Achilles refused to allow his values to be compromised - he was individualistic and persistent, like McMurphy, who refused to let Nurse Ratched alter his values - for example, McMurphy debated Ratched during meetings…

In The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, there is a recurrent theme that God rewards and punishes in His own time in such a manner that the events may look like coincidences. Although this timing may seem coincidental, the events are the result of long-prepared plans for justice by the title character, also known as Edmond Dantès. As Dantès, disguised as Abbé Busoni, narrates his fate to one of his enemies, Caderousse, he comments that “There are times when God’s justice tarries for a…

Judith Butler’s “Interdependence” as I said earlier is the only clip in the movie that present a dialogue between 2 people, and this dialogue make the movie clip seemingly more welcoming, and personable it almost gives you the sense that you are intruding on an intimate conversation between Butler and Taylor, which is essential an appeal to pathos. While strolling around the Mission district of San Francisco you are not only engaged by what they are saying but also a firsthand account of how…

Modern Prometheus and The Windup Girl by their respective authors, Mary Shelley and Paolo Bacigalupi. The two novels follow a protagonist that is confronted by the benefits and disadvantages of being ambitious. Both highlight the inherent momentum and hubris of ambition and how it exists in their ambitious characters’ lives. The two authors both use their non-human characters and deuteragonists to emphasise the downfall that ambition can bring and the inescapable conflict it causes. They also…