Reversal

In the play Helen by Euripides the main character, Helen often finds herself in complicated situations. To get out of those situations, Helen believes that her only option is to manipulate, deceive, and lie to people. Helen’s main goal is to be reunited with her husband, Menelaos, in her homeland. Helen persuades characters to do things her way by manipulation, lies, and deception. Throughout Helen, the main character manipulates Teucros, Menelaos, and Theoclymenos using deception, persuasion, and deceit which derive from her use of rhetoric. Helen manipulates these men to achieve her end goal of being reunited with her husband Menelaos. Helen’s manipulation begins when she meets Teucros, a Greek that has a burning hatred for Helen because of her role in the war. However, when the two meet, Teucros doesn’t realize that the person he is talking to is Helen, he just recognizes that she is similar to his foe. Helen recognizes that in front of her is this man who hates her and takes advantage of that. Helen deceives Teucros by pretending to be an outsider that has no knowledge of the war, allowing him to open himself up. Helen manipulates Teucros by her use of rhetoric. At the very beginning of Helen and Teucros’ dialogue, Helen switches the focus from her to Teucros. Helen asks Teucros, “Whoever you are, you wretch, why do you turn from me and hate me for that woman’s misfortunes?” (78). Instead of asking Teucros why Helen is so bad, she asks him about why he believes that…

characteristics of a tragic hero. One characteristic is the flaw or error in judgment; he portrays this by not thinking thoroughly about the statements made from the Apparition. Another characteristic that he portrays is a reversal of fortune because of his error in judgment; this is seen when Macbeth believes the witches when they told him he will be King after they predicted he would be Thane of Cawdor and it becomes true. The final characteristic that Macbeth signifies is the discovery…

financial-market anomalies are momentum and reversal. Momentum is the tendency of assets with good (bad) recent performance to continue over performing (underperforming) in the near future. Reversal concerns predictability based on a longer performance history: assets that performed well (poorly) over a long period tend to subsequently underperform (over perform). Closely related to reversal is the value effect, whereby the ratio of an asset’s price relative to book value is negatively related…

University of New South Wales, they have discovered a way of restoring the efficiency of cells, completely reversing the aging process in muscles. In their experiments, two year old mice were giving the compound over a week, looking back at the key indicators of aging to that of a six month old mouth. Researchers and scientists said that this was equivalent to a sixty year old person feeling as if they were only twenty year old. Scientists are looking forward to how the theory of age reversal…

The Reversal Metamorphosis One night, after a long day at work, the 40-year old Adomas lied in his bed, stared at the ceiling, when he fell asleep. He dreamed that he was in a movie scene, riding the subway, heading to his work. He was examining people in hurry to get to their work, and he suddenly felt disgusted by people, as he started to get hallucinations that the those around him had rats' faces. He reached his destination, got off the subway and went straight to his work. While in the…

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a well-known tragic play which is structured according to Aristotle’s sequence of events: reversal of intention, recognition, and catharsis. It focuses on the main character Macbeth and the effects that selfish ambition can have on a person. Over the course of the play, Macbeth demonstrates nihilistic qualities and begins to believe that there is no meaning to life. He misunderstands human nature and thinks that he is free to act however he pleases. Although it is clear…

than once, he takes a character he spent the entire play developing and changes the audience’s opinion in the matter of one line of either dialogue or even stage directions. Although it’s a comedy it still has many moments that make you want to cry. At least four characters throughout the play experience some sort of major character reversal. Helen is one of a few of Martin McDonagh’s characters who experiences a personality turnabout. From her first line, her violent and bitchy tendencies are…

After my gender role reversal, I was sure of one thing: people definitely react when women don’t adhere to the practice of shaving, plucking, and tweezing. However, I was left with so many questions and, quite honestly, I knew little about why I continue to shave week in and week out even though removing my body hair has no real purpose. I was extremely excited to immerse myself in the research and learn more about this strange habit. What I did know even before starting my project was that…

There is a prevailing role reversal in both texts in that the submissive character becomes more powerful and rises above their formerly dominant spouse. Initially, in ‘Macbeth’, their personalities reflect the inverse of society’s standards while in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, the couple has conformed to society’s expectations. Although there is a reversal of this in both relationships, it has opposite effects. Since her separation with her husband, Lady Macbeth adopts his quiet, guilty nature. She…

Role Reversal of the Macbeths William Shakespeare’s Macbeth chronicles the ambition of its two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Their lust for power drives them to tyranny, manipulation, and murder. Their ambition also drives them into arrogance, madness, and death. Lady Macbeth is one of the most powerful female characters in literature. The Macbeths’ marriage, while to the public might seem normal, is anything but that. In public Macbeth is known as a fierce, courageous hero, and…