“As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If its uncontrolled, you kill people..” In “The Case of Lady Sannox” Lord Sannox is angered with his wife’s, Lady Sannox, infidelities. When he learns of the Lady’s latest affair with Douglas Stone, a skilled surgeon, he hatches a revenge plan. His plan could potentially ruin the lives of everyone involved. In “The Case of Lady Sannox” both arrogance and regret are emotions that drive the action of the story.…
While one keenly observes the gods as essentially violent, vengeful beings and notes that aquiring power seems only to be a matter of physical domination, a closer look at the blood line of fathers leading to the rise of Zeus reveals Hesiod's emphasis on both wit and strategy as most necessary for a god to remain in power. Beginning with Ouranos, Hesiod seems to place the god in a position of assumed power based simply on his reproductive success with Gaia as a "firm foundation for the blessed gods" (Theogeny, 128). However, his power is quite short lived precisely due to his short sighted idea of forcing his children back inside Gaia before attemping to sleep with her once again. Similarly, when Cronos was told of his unborn son overthrowing him he foolishly ate his then born children giving Rheia both time and reason to conceal, from him, her final child Zeus (471) which eventually lead to his violent downfall (725).…
In Edith Hamilton's Mythology, many mortals make the mistake of thinking themsleves equal or greater than the gods. Thinking "thoughts to dangerous to man" is the crime the gods hate the most. This stunt is called the folly of hubris. The folly of hubirs is will certainly be punnished for their arrogance. Bellerophon, Salmoneous, and Niobe all commited this crime and were most certainly punnished.…
Jack is arrogance and demanding. Ralph and jack are having the others vote on who is going to be chief. “I ought to be chief said jack with simple arrogance because I'm chapter chorister and head boy”(22). This show that he thinks he should be leader because he leads the choirs and is head boy in the choirs. Furthermore “jack pointed suddenly his specs use them as burning glasses”(40). Jack tell the kids want to do even though ralph is right there and was voted chief. Theis show that they are trying to hold on to law and order but it is falling apart because of jack.…
In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless is a young man who has just graduated college. He finds hardships with his family and decides to try and escape from them and from reality. Chris uses odd methods in changing his name, leaving his car deserted, and refusing to tell anyone close to him what he is doing or where he will be. He becomes a hitchhiker and goes on to explore nature everywhere ranging from beautiful oceans to the harsh Alaskan tundra. Chris is arrogant, ignorant, and selfish in his travels around the world and he doesn't listen to people, nor does he let them help him. As result of all these combined, and sort of an over-confidence in himself, he takes a heavy pitfall into his own death.…
Hubris; a definition of excessive pride, which is what Antigone and King Creon both shared. The difference between King Creon and…
Within Greek mythology, the Gods constantly stress the fact mortals are not at the same level as the Gods, for example Niobe. Niobe, a mortal portraying hubris in Hamilton’s writing, believes she’s more important than Titan goddess Leto. According to Edith Hamilton, Niobe claims, “what is she…
Are gods and goddesses really all that different from humans? They have feelings just as mortals do, as well as natural desires that humans encounter. In addition, gods and goddesses share many of the same qualities humans possess. For example, they have emotions that they sometimes have difficulty containing, such as love, fear, jealousy, rage, lust, and compassion. In Book V of Homer’s The Odyssey, some of these qualities are revealed through Calypso when she is visited by Hermes, the messenger of the gods. She becomes angry with him and yells, “You gods are the most jealous bastards in the universe- persecuting any goddess who ever openly takes a mortal…
In the novel “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton, The Story of Niobe is a good example of pride that led to destruction. The myth begins with Niobe a mother of fourteen children who had the audacity to compare herself to a goddess. Boasting on the fact that she gave birth to fourteen children while the goddess Leto only bore two children Apollo the god of the sun and Athena the goddess of wisdom. Offended by Niobe’s arrogance the goddess Leto sends both of her children to bring destruction upon Niobe’s children and misery to Niobe. All seven of Niobe’s boys and girls were completely slaughtered and Niobe herself was transformed into a petrified rock that perpetually weeps as a punishment by the gods for her pride in herself.…
In Homer’s epic, The Iliad, every character deals with some form of hubris, whether they are the main character or if they show up for one book. Throughout the epic Homer shows how people are blinded by hubris. Only through a loss of something dear will one purge themselves of hubris.…
A characteristics of an epic hero demonstrated in Homer epic poems was the interference of supernatural beings either as allies or enemies. Ancient Greeks society believed in gods and goddesses who live above Mount Olympus and watch over mortals below. The Greeks believed that these gods and goddesses interfered with life below Olympus. This is seen in both Homers poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, where the gods interfered throughout the stories. In the Iliad, the gods interfered in both side of the war, by favoring who they were going to help. When Agamemnon did not return Chryseis, her father a Trojan high priest turned to Apollo for help. In turn, Apollo sent a plague throughout the Greek army. When Hector took Achilles armor from Patroclus,…
Why are morality, justice, honor, and virtues important for the world of "mortals?" Describe the relationship between the humankind and gods? What is hubris and what is the opposite of hubris? Why is longing for immortality so Important for humans?…
Throughout Greco-Roman mythology, the gods and goddesses are often depicted as vengeful, immortal beings that weird an abundant of power and control over the lives of mortals. This power enables them to punish mortals for any perceived slights or threats against them, usually through the transformation. Transformation — or metamorphosis — is a major theme interwoven into many of the myths told by the legendary Roman poet, Ovid. Within Ovid’s Metamorphoses, he narrates the classical myths, but in an ironic tone and style that always presents an undecidable moral message in the myth — one that is often caught between two vastly different, albeit convincing, interpretations. This is a concept that is reflected within the popular myth Diana and…
Letóna found this very repulsive and even more disrespectful for a mortal to disregard an immortal. This part of story is when their mother summons my two new favorite deities, Diana and Apollo. This family theme resonates with me. If someone in my family was slandered and greatly disrespected, I would try to find a solution to their problem like Diana and Apollo. These deities knew that they were going to punish a mortal for not respecting and demeaning their immortal mother. The theme that “might is right” is common so far in these mythology stories. I enjoy the angle that Ovid takes that the gods are charge and the mortals should know it. Níobe does not know her place compared to deities. Apollo and Artemis team and punish a mother in the most atrocious way possible in killing all her children. My reaction to Apollo killing all the boys first is the he wanted to get rid of the lineage of her family starting with the males. I absolutely dumbfounded that Níobe was not willing to admit Latóna’s superiority and claimed she still had more children than her. Then it became a killing frenzy when Diana takes over by rapidly killing all the girls of Níobe. Both of the deities using their majestic bow and arrows were thrilling when Ovid was describing it. Then I thought about how the human trait of remorse finally sprouted from Níobe when all but one her children remain. The most hair-raising part of the story is that Níobe turned to stone yet her tears continuously trickle down her face. These reactions were all derived from this story of a mortal queen Nióbe’s disdain and the deities of Diana, Apollo, and Letóna making a example of an arrogant…
One of my self-defeating behaviors is that (I wonder if I’m “college material”). I often wonder at times if I really am college material I am 29 years old and have tried college before a couple of times and in the end I ended up letting things in life derail my attempts to be successful. Examples from the past include my mother’s health the death of my grandfather and the health of my grandmother. Currently my mom passed away and had her funeral last week so logically I think wow all these major things happen in my life while I try to be a success in school am I really college material. What may have caused this behavior I do not really know I am sure it goes back to earlier in my life while in middle school I was doing well and had connected…