Orestes

In his Civilization and Its Discontent, Freud deciphers the human psyche - its elements and interactions. Furthermore, Freud concocts a framework that explains how these forces are connected to the groundwork for the creation of “civilization.” Freud states, “Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity” (Freud 118). Freud creates a model where the concept of…

about the well-known ones and the silliness that individually suffer under their own hands. Aegisthus, cousin of Agamemnon committed infidelity with Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, and then helped her to kill Agamemnon. He lived on to explain how Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then killed Aegisthus and his mother to avenge his father’s death and all this could have been avoided if he will have taken the notice that Hermes gave him in advance all this happened to heart and withheld from disloyalty.…

Brownson’s Assessment Horace Mann gained support for his educational reform during the 19th century, yet there was some opposition to his proposals. Orestes Brownson constructed the best appeal to his reforms with several well-grounded concerns. Brownson reveals Mann’s undermining of the democratic and meritocracy society through the education of students and their educators, the extension of politics into education, and using education as a means of mass control. Mann’s ideas for the…

It has been said “he is a sacred twin” (102). His sister was Artemis, the great virgin huntress. Being the god of law, and knowledge, “he brings reason to the Greek world in the trial of Orestes” (102). When thinking of Apollo, they are thoughts of beauty and order. In art he is drawn as a handsome young man, usually naked. He lived in Delphi, a major site where he gained control of the known oracle, by slaying the giant python that roamed…

the vague wording of the Miranda Rights; “a voluntary, freely given, intelligent, and knowing confession” (Miranda). The 1991 Supreme Court case of Arizona v. Fulminate further illuminates the issues regarding the ambiguity of the Miranda Rights. Oreste Fulminante was incarcerated in a New York federal prison for possessing a weapon that was provided to him by a known felon. The police suspected that he had murdered his eleven year old daughter, but they had no evidence to convict him of this…

Text 2: Vergil’s Aeneid, book 2.279-297 Vergil’s textual source describes Aeneas’ encounter with Hector’s ghost during the siege on Troy who warns him that Troy has fallen and is held by the enemy. Vergil’s Aeneid focuses solely on Aeneas’ travels and then on the war of Troy. Vergil’s work has several poetic features used to create a very detailed scene. In this scene, Vergil uses first-person to show Aeneas’ emotional state during this encounter; allowing the reader to increase their sense of…

First, Ernest Hemingway shows a tendency toward existentialism. The existential hero presents itself best in Frederic Henry. When thinking about the war, Henry states, “Well, I knew I would not be killed. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me” (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 37). Because it he had nothing “to do with the war,” Henry becomes philosophically detached from the cause. Because of this detachment, Henry believes that he cannot die. If Henry in his eyes is…

In the article “Artemisia and Susanna”, Mary D. Garrard brings up the great controversy in art history of the identity of the author of the painting Susanna and the Elders. Even though the painting bears the name “ARTEMISIA/GENTILESCHI F.”, there are scholars questioning that the painting is actually a work by Artemisia’s father, Orazio Gentileschi. Garrard lists in her writing several points that seem arguable in the authorship of the painting: the validation of the inscription of the name and…

The first individual noted in the book was Orestes Brownson. His post-Civil War book, “The American Republic”; Allitt provides us a quote stating that “Catholics are better fitted in their religion to comprehend the Constitution….they study it in light of their own theology.” When rereading the…

Tragedy hero was concerned as archaic and kingly. But Arthur Miller shows us how a modern normal people could also called tragedy hero in Death of a Salesman. Also, Arthur Miller says that “tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need, to secure one thing— his sense of personal dignity” in his article Tragedy and the Common Man. By support his own idea, Miller gives the examples of Willy Loman defrauds insurance money,…