Kings Dominion

Greatness, achieved through honesty and trust, is a huge responsibility to carry. It is not handed to one through wealth or popularity but through virtue. Materialism is misinterpreted with the value of a person. The word great does not cover the aspects of who a person truly internally. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby is assumed to be a great man. He is a man who strives to gain wealth in order to win back the love his life, Daisy Buchanan. Due to her wealth status, he…

man who himself relinquishes all rule of his land to live a life of misery that he feels he deserves. Sophocles creates a world that makes the reader think about the complex and mysterious battle between fate and free will in his play Oedipus The King. To the characters, fate is real and that’s what they believe in. The audience sees that Oedipus is the one making the divisions and altimetry it is himself that leads to his downfall. (TRANSITION which addresses the reality and importance of the…

Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. It is a tale about the conflict between a girl trying to honor her brother and a king who uses his power to forbid it. This Greek play symbolically demonstrates the inner conflict between power and one’s conscience. (Haigh) Antigone was the third and final installment of Sophocles popular trilogy after Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus (Sayre). Sophocles, who lived from 496-406 BCE was a treasurer for Athenian polis, a general under…

Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex depicts a story of a young, prideful man who becomes the King of Thebes; meanwhile ignoring an inevitable prophecy of killing his birth father Laius and marrying his mother Jocasta. During the play, the author emphasizes Oedipus’s tragic flaw of being unaware of himself or his true identity. His ignorant and stubborn behavior both contribute to the irony behind the words inscribed on the temple at Delphi: “know thyself “. Oedipus does not know himself because he is…

important of the five senses and without seeing, one will doubt as to what is in front. In Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, the theme of blindness is key where it is not just defined as not seeing with one’s eyes, but also the inability to see the truth and what is really happening around one’s self. In Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, Odysseus encounters a blind prophet and also blinds a Cyclops. King Lear and Gloucester are very similar in the fact that they are blind to actions happening around…

McDonald’s is one of the largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. This company has been operating in America since 1955, and it is known for its burgers and fires. The revenues recorded by the company during the financial year ended 2014 were $27,441.3 million McDonald’s has more than 1.7 million employees and more than 34, 000 restaurants in 119 countries. These revenues come from rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchises and sales in company operated restaurants (Humphries and…

heritage. As a baby, Oedipus’ biological parents, Laius and Jocasta, who were the king and queen of Thebes, leave him in the hands of a shepherd. This is because they were informed of a prophecy that stated that Oedipus would grow up to murder both of his parents. Instead of killing him as he was instructed to do, the shepherd passes the baby along to the barren king and queen of another kingdom called Corinth. King Polybus and Queen Merope, in Corinth, raise Oedipus as their own son, and…

There is no running from the past. Yet, there is no going back either. The past can not be altered, and it is impossible to recreate the past. Although it is plausible to buy materialistic objects that represent the past or are from earlier years, it is unfeasible to capture the same feelings and emotions that happened before. As well as recreating the past, there is not time machine that someone can go back in and change their life. This dilemma was the conflict of the famous Jay Gatsby in the…

Relationships are an integral part of life. The need to belong and the desire to be a part of something has been prevalent for many years. We are autonomous beings with our own conscious, yet our views and decisions are influenced by those we idolize. Even after our companions leave, we take action in their memory. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the impact of admiring someone through the voice of narrator Nick Carraway. Nick writes a book about his friend, Jay Gatsby, and…

in King Lear An ambitious nature is one of which is common within various characters in William Shakespeare’s plays. It describes an individual of whom holds earnest desires, be it for power, fame, wealth or honour. It is often that these characters are linked with destruction and it is particularly evident in William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Within the tragedy, it is the infatuation of power which leads to the destruction of self. This degeneration of character is most notably seen in King…