September 20‚ 2007 The tragedy of Oedipus Sophocles is one of the best and most well-known ancient Greek tragedians. He influenced the development of drama especially by adding a third character and thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. Even though he wrote 123 plays‚ he is mostly famous for his three plays concerning Oedipus and Antigone: these are often known as the Theban plays or The Oedipus Cycle. One of these plays is “Oedipus the King”‚ which will be discussed
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“Martin Seligman (1975‚ 1976) believed that learned helplessness is the laboratory analogue of reactive depression in humans. Learned helplessness can be defined as a psychological state involving a disturbance of motivation‚ cognitive processes‚ and emotionality as a result of previously experienced uncontrollability on the part of the organism”. (Petri and Govern‚ 2012‚ p.169) In today’s society‚ everyone in their lives go through a state of learned helplessness where they are completely not in
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All Holocaust survivors suffered during and after the horrid event. Whether they lost their families‚ or their riches‚ every survivor has a story to tell along with something to learn from it. This specific survivor was a girl named Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann whose family was captured and deported when she was seventeen. Her family was sent to a concentration camp and her father was killed upon entry because he was a well known Jew. Her brother survived many camps and was finally killed just before
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aware of his reality. In both Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis this method is used in order to create an ironic world for their hero‚ where neither Oedipus nor Gregor are fully informed of their tragic standing in their world. The use of dramatic irony in both of these works of literature is what leads to the main character’s tragic end. In the Metamorphosis‚ Gregor never finds out the truth‚ arousing pity for the audience‚ while Oedipus does‚ which makes Frank Kafka’s novel even
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Culture is learned I would say any culture or sub-culture is learned. It’s environmental. Every culture is learned by the people who live it. Even people born into a culture learn the culture as they grow and mature. I think almost everything is cultured and everyone is cultured. For instance‚ we were born as babies‚ we had not learned anything yet‚ but we were able to cry‚ and express our feelings in certain ways. There was no culture involve until we learned and observed from our parents
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Antigone and Oedipus Rex are two plays written by the famous Greek playwright‚ Sophocles. Oedipus Rex is about a man who unknowingly fulfills the prophecy of killing his father‚ marrying his own mother‚ and having children with her‚ he seeks out this killer only to find out it’s him‚ resulting in him blinding himself‚ being exiled‚ and having his wife and mother kill herself. In Antigone‚ the daughter of Oedipus decides to bury her brother despite Creon’s statement that anyone who does will die‚
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Truth When Oedipus and Jocasta begin to get close to the truth about Laius’s murder‚ in Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus fastens onto a detail in the hope of exonerating himself. Jocasta says that she was told that Laius was killed by “strangers‚” whereas Oedipus knows that he acted alone when he killed a man in similar circumstances. This is an extraordinary moment because it calls into question the entire truth-seeking process Oedipus believes himself to be undertaking. Both Oedipus and Jocasta act
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What Have Others Learned from You? Our Scripture Reading from Deuteronomy makes a connection between obeying God Word‚ and obtaining material blessings; but‚ more importantly‚ it reminds us that God’s Word is close to us (Deuteronomy 30:9-14). God’s Word is not something so far removed that we never get a glimpse of it. It is not beyond our reasoning and capabilities. By the way‚ I am not suggesting that we grasp God’s Word in its totality‚ but enough of God’s Word to lead us to do good. Being
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Analysis of The Oedipus Trilogy Oedipus Rex‚ or Oedipus Tyrannus as it is in Latin‚ could be what we call today a Freudian work of literature. The Oedipus Trilogy was originally written by Sophocles and is meant to be told in a story-telling fashion. But this Grecian tragedy was revised and translated into English by Paul Roche and put into a novel form. The Oedipus Trilogy is a novel that deals with destiny and fate. The reader is shown a series of events plotted out from which Oedipus cannot escape
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A Father learns A Lesson from His Son The best music download sites is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoy reading this story. Velan was a carpenter. He was living in a village. His mother dies a longtime back. His aged father‚ Kuppan‚ lived with Velan. Kuppan was very weak. He could not even walk well. He was so weak. It was because Velan did not give him enough food. He had given his father a small earthen plate. Even a small quantity of rice in the plate appeared to be much. Velan was
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