constantly battling over polar positions: state against individual citizen‚ law against conscience‚ and human nature against divine nature. Ultimately‚ in following her conscience and sacrificing her life in defiance of nomos‚ Antigone is validated as a martyr and hero‚ while Creon is left alone in sorrow and despair. Given the fates of these two characters‚ is the fate of man subjective to acting solely on what is morally righteous‚ essentially upholding physis over nomos? In Antigone’s very famous choral
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The Bluest Eye depicts the social conditions and psychology of black citizens in post-World War II United States. This excerpt‚ situated in the Autumn part of the book‚ introduces the reader to a family‚ the Breedloves‚ part of whom is the protagonist‚ Pecola. The point of view is omniscient‚ enabling the author to describe the family‚ their house and state of mind. This extract has several layers of meaning : it depicts the physical‚ then moral conditions of the Breedloves‚ but also sheds light
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Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used his theatrical convention to evoke the inwardness of their characters‚ a soliloquy provides the audience with accurate access to the character’s innermost thoughts and we learn more about a character than could ever be gathered from the action of the play alone. In ’Othello’‚ both the hero and the villain speak in soliloquy. Iago‚ the villain‚ speaks his soliloquies first (Othello’s occur towards the end of the play)‚ drawing the audience in as he outlines
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The Death of the American Dream in the Great Gatsby World War I brought out the deepest‚ darkest‚ most malignant tendencies of human nature. Young men died in the thousands on the battlefield‚ martyrs of a wanton cause. 1920’s American society mirrored the Great War’s atmosphere of excess. The newly wealthy class‚ in onslaught‚ threw lavish parties and indulged in sexual promiscuity as exorbitance became the new state religion. Traditional values‚ including that of the American Dream‚ seemed to
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Writing and Communication‚ SS 100-4 15th December‚ 2012 Tracing the history of mankind reveals fascinating behavioral patterns of our ancestors that have been adopted by generations for generations. Most of these behavioral patterns were aimed at protecting oneself and survival. However‚ certain mutations‚ as you may call them‚ have led to people choosing to end their own lives at will and in some cases‚ ending it along with several others’. These people are called suicide bombers. By definition
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Tim Peterson REL 480 Brandt 4/14/09 In A Canticle For Leibowitz‚ there is plenty of talk concerning the Apocalypse. The nuclear holocaust which creates an atmosphere of mass chaos‚ book burnings‚ killings‚ and mutants; the wandering Jew who waits for Christ’s second coming‚ apparently unable to die; and finally a second nuclear holocaust which appears to do away with many things save some marine life‚ a certain mutant who represents the new creation‚ and of course‚ the wandering Jew has to
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after the explosion‚ thousands of mourners from across Lebanon flocked to a central Beirut square for a funeral service for the victims. As the flag-draped coffins of General Hassan and his bodyguard passed through the crowd gathered in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square‚ mourners chanted angry slogans against Syria’s president‚ Bashar al-Assad‚ and against Hezbollah‚ its ally and the dominant force in Lebanon’s coalition government. Many carried the flag of the Syrian rebels‚ and there were
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John Tewkesbury Introduction « John Tewkesbury‚ merchant and martyr » is an excerpt from The Reformation in England by the Swiss pastor and historian of the Reformation Jean Henry Merle d’Aubigné. The book was originally written in French however was appeared in English for the first time in 1853 in The History of the Reformation of the Sixteen Century. H. White Ph.D. translated the book and revised it. The author’s angle seems to have been that John Tewkesbury was a humanist as Tyndale
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What makes a person a hero? Perhaps heroism is defined by a large muscular figure‚ an unwavering bravery‚ and cape. This isn’t always the case‚ however. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Johnny Cade is a hero. He risked his life for others and was able to step-up and overcome his personal fears when others needed help. Johnny inadvertently finds that helping others gives his life meaning and worth. Johnny first shows his heroic qualities early in the story when he tells Dally to “Leave
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The times Malcolm and Gandhi lived in where during civil revolutions and huge movements in the country’s life. They were in different countries but it was all the same. Inspirational men and were really good at bringing a large groups of their people together. The times they lived in where both hard for them to move through and to understand why it was this way. In the beginning of Malcolm’s life‚ 1925 was the year of his birth and Hitler just done writing this book “Mein Kampf.” A Great tornado
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