Ruins

King Oedipus’s Tragic Flaw A tragic flaw, according to Aristotle “is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty”. With that said, it is confirmed that King Oedipus possessed a tragic flaw. Pride is a very powerful quality, state of self-importance or opinion and this is what leads Oedipus to demise. One of the reasons why pride caused Oedipus to fall, was when he was taunted with the idea that Polybus was not his father. This astonishingly destroyed Oedipus so hard…

He talks a lot behind people's backs, and he also comes up with brilliant, evil plans to ruin everybody. He managed to get Othello to believe that Desdemona, his wife, was cheating on him with Cassio, his lieutenant. All of his plans somehow fell perfectly in place, making him very successful. If you trusted him you were most likely getting played. ”Oh, you’re happy now, but I’ll ruin your happiness, for all my supposed honesty” (185). He said that to himself about Othello. This shows…

thing, friendship allows people to connect and help with one another. Without friendship, people start to get lonely and stodgy. For a long period of time loneliness leads to isolation and clinginess. In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, loneliness ruins peoples lives because people hold onto lies and ching onto unimportant items. In Of Mice and Men the character, Candy, held onto something for too long. Candy exclaimed “‘Well-hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup.’”, Candy's dog…

horrors associated with racism and prejudice positively and negatively. When Aunt Alexandra first found out Atticus was defending Tom Robinson, she was not pleased with him. She believed that by defending a black man, Atticus would ruin the family. Defending a black man would ruin not only the name of the family, but their reputation and social level inside Maycomb. Also, when Scout suggested inviting Walter Cunningham over, she said no because he's not their kind of folks. She explained that no…

person's life span can shorten from a dying animal organ. A common opposition to xenotransplantation is the concern of killing animals for human use when it's unnecessary. For xenotransplantation, animals’ lifestyles need to be strictly monitored and it ruins their natural life cycle. People worry about mixing species because it goes against…

not want his name shown around the village and nailed upon the church door to make his innocent wife, and friends to look guilty just for him to look good and live. John Proctor shows his goodness by not letting the court turn his name into a lie and ruin his wife Elizabeth’s name and his friends…

In the Fallout 3 box art; there are some signs such as Logo of Fallout which combined with the title, which showed word ‘Fallout 3’ with the ‘o’ adding with an electrical bolt. In connotative meaning; this sign can be interpreted as the jolt of the game or it maybe it means that the Fallout 3 is full of energy or the game full of technology which requires some electricity. And from signifier that stated ‘the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion’ which adding…

The themes of alienation and isolation complement and essentially go hand-in-hand with the role nature serves in Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and more specifically in the realm of the short story “Big Two-Hearted River.” In several of the short stories concerning him, Nick Adams constantly retreats to nature to find a quiet place of reflection and self-examination, most commonly expressed in the act of fishing; these moments of isolation are those in which Hemingway pays great attention in…

Salem Meets McCarthyism Imagine being killed for talking to the devil or being a communist. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, men and women were accused for talking to the devil. Joseph R. McCarthy was a politician in the 1950’s that accused men and women of being communist. Bringing the subjects together in comparison is easy considering both included unsubstantiated claims, lack of courage, and the ruining of lives. In The Crucible, all genders and ages were accused of being witches which…

call off both my work and my school at the same time, because I can not afford the lost. I I have to maintain my grades at a certain level for another 2 semester in order to get financial help from the school system, so I would not give any chances to ruin my effort that was built since the beginning of the semester. Due to my financial problem,…