Oedipus complex

Antigone is a novel where the protagonist of the novel, Antigone, passes the standard in society to do what she believes is right, disregarding the King’s command. Antigone defying the law is the start of the tragic ending of many of the characters of the novel. By looking at this through a psychoanalytic sense, we see the tension between the conscious and subconscious thought, which is important to understand the “why” of the tragedy and how it really unfolds. Conscious is defined as the awake…

stage performances. The iconic plays of Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Hamlet by William Shakespeare are examples of two traditional tragedies from two different eras, Greek and Elizabethan. It’s due to the similarity in their genre that both tragedies have various underlying similarities within their plot. Yet, due to situational differences the tragedies can be categorized into two different literary subgenres, Greek and Elizabethan tragedies.…

adding to the definition, a tragedy is “showing a struggle that rends the protagonist’s whole being,” (Barnet, Burto, and Cain, p. 1014). “Oedipus the King” is an example of one such tragedy, which we will show examples of. We will also determine if Oedipus is a hero in this story and if Oedipus deserved the fate that was decided. “Oedipus the King” is a complex story with twists and turns that are all revealed by the end of the story, the main character wrestles throughout the story against a…

In the words of the newly elected President of the United States of America, “grab them by the pussy” (Mathis-Lilley). Those in positions of power utilize misogyny as a means of control and as a tool to reinforce a personally beneficial power structure. Like Trump, King Lear and Hamlet are men in position of authority who relegate women to subordinate roles. Both King Lear and Hamlet express deeply misogynistic attitudes towards women; however, while Lear’s misogyny manifests in his belief in…

Happy endings are what one secretly hopes for every time they read a story. However, tragedies will never abide to this hope. Tragedies will always have despair and pity in them. Antigone, written by Sophocles, is no exception to this. Aristotle believes there are certain elements that can make a tragedy “perfect”. Some of the elements are: despair and serious implications, a tragic hero, and reversal and recognition of the plot. Aristotle says “a tragedy is a process of imitating an…

his mother. It is not until the end of the story until his mother actually finds this out when she walks in on him doing the his little act. Sajjad Saberi goes into detail about the Oedipus complex in his essay “A Psychoanalytic Reading of D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Rocking Horse-Winner.’” Saberi states both that Paul’s complex causes him to “do everything to be with the mother sexually, and to make his mother happy emotionally,” and “Hester’s own sense of insufficiency spills over onto Paul, who is…

My favorite Myth is Oedipus the Theban. I like this story because it shows that a normal human cannot avoid fate, and pride is often our downfall. Sometimes people believe they can take control of their fate and choose their own destinies. They think that they are smart enough to deceive fate into doing what they want. This myth shows people can not belittle fate into letting them choose what happens to them. Human pride takes control and we try to make our own destiny. I think we should try to…

Preliminary Statement This reflective piece identifies the main source of corruption to be power. The references I have mainly linked this to are the police force and political leaders as they are some of the most powerful and influential people on the planet. The form of writing taken in this paper is an opinion article. I chose this because it 's an interesting form of writing and it allows me to voice my opinion better on this topic. I have used rhetorical questions to make this paper more…

Speak the words presidential scandal, and what goes through a person’s mind is Watergate. This scandal set a precedent for all other scandals. What started as a promising presidential career for Richard Nixon, quickly turned into the largest and most devastating scandals the United States has ever known. It was June 1972 a five man crew of Cuban descent were apprehended by the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC, in the offices of the Democratic National Committee. The report…

I am ever so grateful to be promotion to an important investigative position for the FBI, however I must admit I am quite horrified at my first case. President Nixon killed by a reel of recording tape… talk about irony. This is not a time to joke around which is why I’ve been busy investigating several suspects to the murder of Richard Nixon and I am happy to say I have found quite some convincing ones. As you know, there were quite a few clues found in a White House trashcan that was very…