Narcissus

Losing yourself is a central concern of madness which was explored in King Lear where madness was a prominent theme. Antoinette similarly to King Lear faced with a loss of reason. At the end of the novel, Antoinette becomes totally unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy and realise who she is. She believes she has seen a ghost in the mirror which in reality was herself. The statement Antoinette makes while looking in the mirror: “I saw her – the ghost. The woman with streaming hair.…

Parker (Yaphet Kotto) decide to blowup the ship. But the alien is quicker, it kills Lambert and Parker before they can escape. Ripley grabs Jonesy the cat, flees into the lifeboat Narcissus, but only to discover after the Nostromo has exploded that the alien is already there waiting for her. Trapped, inside the Narcissus, she has no where to go, except to battle the alien one last…

Commentary on the Theme of Love in Perfume The novel, Perfume, written by Patrick Süskind contains social commentary and thoughts on today’s society. It follows the story of Grenouille, an abomination that has an extraordinary sense of smell but has no feelings for other humans. The novel details his journey as he seeks the perfect scent, committing atrocities along the way. Patrick Süskind uses devices such as imagery, tone and mood, metaphors, and characterization to illustrate the theme of…

Narcissus is in fact the historical killer of Comodus and he was his personal trainer and perhaps even a friend, but instead of killing him in the Gladiator arena as shown in the movie, he strangled him in his bath. After Commodus death the Rome, however,…

painting “He grew more and more enamoured by his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul…”all art is quite useless > beauty doesn’t actually reveal anything? This reveals a parallel between Dorian and the character Narcissus in Greek mythology, whose obsession with himself ended up being the cause of his own…

disliked people who were over confident, or felt superior towards the Gods. She would find them and give them what them deserve, hints the nickname “dispenser of dues” (The Goddess Nemesis in Greek Mythology 1). One myth concerning Nemesis is that of Narcissus. “He was a young man who was very arrogant and disdained those who loved him. Nemesis led him to a pool, where he saw his reflection and fell in love with it. Unable to abandon his reflection, he died there.” (Nemesis 1). Nemesis and…

Analyse the representation and formal importance of transformation with regard to two texts studied so far. Metamorphosis, meaning change of form, underpins the process of transformation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (008AD). Present throughout Kafka’s text is the political instability of central Europe during the early 1900’s; the social and militaristic unrest of the Second Reich was rife in Kafka’s home city of Prague. The grim reality of Gregor’s metamorphosis,…

Narcissism is desire for self gratitude and admiration of one self. Narcissism comes from Greek mythology, where the term narcissism came from young Narcissus. Narcissus fell in love with his reflection and lived for the compliments others gave him. Psychologists are trying to prove that each generation is becoming more narcissistic. Psychologists call this the narcissistic epidemic in today’s youth, and as time goes on the newer generations will be even more self absorbed. Although many…

IPhones and iPods were invented to keep us constantly connected, however they are consuming our lives and isolating us from our surroundings. Both articles, "iPod's Missed Manners" by George F. Will and "Society Is Dead: We Have Retreated into the iWorld" by Andrew Sullivan, discuss the negative impact of iPods and electronic devices have on us as individuals in particular and as a society in general. Both authors, Will and Sullivan, imply that our electronics are controlling our lives and we…

How do explain things that you don’t understand? Greek myths seemed so logical to the early man that they did not stir up disbelief, thus, believing that they held the answers to the world’s questions. As men’s curiosity grew, they thought of creation myths creating the answers they looked for. Things that were unexplainable suddenly made sense with these myths that involved gods, goddesses, and mythological creatures. Greek myths explain the origins of natural phenomenons and why they happen.…