The Two Cultures

Oedipus faced many conflicts throughout the plays, all of which traced back to his first mistake of blaming everyone except for himself. In my project, I chose to portray this main conflict and the inclusion of the id, ego, and superego within Oedipus' thoughts. Since the play takes place in an older time and many of the torture devices used were medieval torture devices, I represented Oedipus' mental fight with a torture rack as the central part. Oedipus, represented by the wooden mannequin, is…

Batman's hobby of crime stopping in tights has come to attract various kinds of villains but there is one who has truly made a name for himself. His name is the Joker and he is best known as Batman's nemesis. According to ("Joker comics "), Joker became who he was after he joined the mob in a attempt to support his pregnant wife. He is later pursued by Batman which causes him to jump into a chemical vat to elude the Batman but the mental strain of coming out of the vat disfigured and learning…

The freudian Id is representative of our most primitive urges,these being pleasure seeking and destructive urges. The pleasure seeking urges represent such things as feeding and sexual desire, while the destructive one represents violent action to protect yourself or to achieve a goal. One character whom depicts freudian id well is Pennywise the main antagonist from the movie and book It written by Stephen King. Pennywise is a clown like character who comes out of hibernation every 27 years and…

to control Hyde. Ordinarily, Jekyll is shown as the ideal Victorian era gentleman. As Mr. Utterson, a lawyer who is also a good friend of Jekyll’s, describes him as “a large, well-made, smooth-faced, man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness” (15). At this point, Jekyll is very confident in his ability to control Hyde, as he says to Utterson, “The moment I chose: I can be rid of Mr. Hyde” (15). By saying this Jekyll believes that the…

“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.” This quote, by the character Rorschach from the movie Watchmen, serves to highlight what the character’s ethical values are. Movies are a useful tool in teaching and personifying ethical ideals in a way that reaches a wide variety of people. The 2009 movie Watchmen is a near perfect example of this as the main characters are personifications of several ethical…

The battle of good versus evil isn't always black and white, what one feels internally doesn't always reflect their actions. What represents good and evil, it's arbitrary, it's based on customs, culture, and legends. Evil can be custom made just as much as Good can. In “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis, the esteemed Dr. Jekyll battles with his darker self, this reflects humanity's struggle between selfish desires and the desire to do good by others. London, know for…

Petrarch’s sonnets, the first eight lines form an octet, introducing the scythe the man is working with and reflecting on the importance of the sound. That is followed by a sestet, which offers an additional analysis of the scythe’s sound. The final two lines of the sestet, like all Shakespearean sonnets, are what the poem centers on. These both have five stressed syllables, spaced by differentiating numbers of unstressed syllables. “Mowing” also has an irregular rhyme scheme: ABC ABD ECD GEH…

The Dark Knight is a movie released in 2008 directed by Christopher Nolan, based on a man called Bruce Wayne which becomes a superhero to compete with criminals to put them in prison until they pay their conviction. The expectancy of this superhero called Batman (The Dark Knight) is to put all criminal in prison, which against the city called Gotham City. The Gotham city is a city with many criminals, where the justice cannot control them and batman decided to become a vigilant to beat these…

James Gordon continues his reign as Gotham's Dark Knight in Detective Comics #49. Peter J. Tomasi provides the script for Fernando Pasarin’s illustrations. The two give us a tale that takes us back to the golden age adventures of the Caped Crusader when he not only dished out a good beating but solved a mystery along the way. In Detective Comics #49, James Gordon is caught up in an cold case from his days on the force. He grapples with the new freedom he has as Batman to investigate the crimes…

The Dark Knight is a film based off of the DC comic books of Batman. This film has many different characters who all have some type of psychological or other mental disorder including Batman himself. The main antagonist is the Joker who has an array of different psychological, mental, and personality disorders. The Joker is a fascinating character who intrigues people due to his anarchist mind set with no personal gain intended by his actions doing things simply to cause chaos with no…