Landsberger Mrs. Wenshau Doubt Innocent until proven guilty Everyone knows what it is like to be accused of something. In the play doubt written by John Patrick Shanley the reader questions whether or not one of the main characters Father Flynn is innocent or guilty. Father Flynn is accused of sexually harassing a student. The students name is Donald Muller; he is the only African American child at his school. I believe that Father Flynn is innocent. I believe he is innocent. There is plenty of evidence
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goes an old saying‚ “All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.” Well‚ it seems that some people work with almost too much pride. In order to consider the extent to which pride applies to Sophocles’ Oedipus The King and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ consider the following: Oedipus and Willy both take extreme pride in their professions‚ their pride blinds them from seeing the truth of their situations‚ and their pride ultimately leads to their own demise/downfall‚ all of these invoking
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Reflection Statement for Myth/Story/Religion in Oedipus The worship of Gods was important in Greek culture. I knew the Gods played an important role in Greek stories‚ but through this presentation‚ I learned of the connection between the Gods and irony. Apollo gave prophecies to the Greeks through his oracle at Delphi. The Greeks do everything the Gods tell them through prophecy‚ so dramatic irony is caused through the Gods because the audience may know the prophecy while the characters may not
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Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex Within Sophocles’ play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus’ destiny was to marry his biological mother and murder his biological father. Oedipus pointlessly tries to change his fate‚ but was powerless in changing anything. With no control over his destined fate‚ unaware of his family history‚ and unconscious of who his birth parents were‚ Oedipus is guiltless in killing his father and marrying his very own mother. Justice‚ which required the revealing and punishment of King Laios’ murderer
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many aspects that reflected the moral values and ideals of society. Their customs were tightly woven into the scripts of plays. Antigone and Oedipus the King‚ two renowned works of the Greek playwright Sophocles‚ explore these values through a plot thick with corruption‚ virtue‚ and determination. These plays reveal the burdens two Theban kings‚ Oedipus and Creon‚ as their lies and poor judgment corrode the integrity of their city‚ their families and themselves. Possessing a strong faith in their
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WAS SANTIAGO NASAR INNOCENT? In the novel‚ ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ Santiago never really learns of the motive behind his murder. We are given a very bias view of the reason that he was murdered for. The only evidence against him was Angela’s word. There was no real proof that he was the one who had taken Angela’s virginity. Santiago might have had a very “shit” (Marquez
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Journal Project for Oedipus Rex 1. What is the effect of Oedipus’ insistence and promises regarding the hunting down and punishing of the murderer of Laius? What does this suggest concerning his character as well as the meaning of Sophocles’ play? Sophocles a Greek poet and a writer was famous for his tragedies. All of his plays and tragedies consisted of a very distinctive style called dramatic irony - a situation of drama which is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters
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Oedipus’ hot temper was a major factor in his undoing. On many occasions‚ his quick bursts of fury backfired on him. For instance‚ when Tiresias keeps refusing to reveal the identity of the killer to Oedipus‚ Oedipus becomes aggravated. “‘You won’t talk? Nothing moves you? Out with it once and for all!’” (Fagles 276). The king’s prodding got under Tiresias’ skin‚ and Tiresias releases the truth. Oedipus is quick to deny the prophecy‚ but if not for Oedipus’ hasty temper the awful truth wouldn’t have
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AP Lit and Analysis Oedipus AP Essay For each of the novels/plays that we read‚ you will compose an essay about the piece based upon a previously used prompt from the AP English Literature and Composition Test. The format for completion of this task will generally run the same way with each essay: * Compose a rough draft of the essay * Share rough draft with classmates during a peer review session * Polish rough draft * Turn in a final version of your essay This is the prompt
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Robert Penn Warren: The Book of Job and Oedipus the King A great man‚ by the name of Robert Penn Warren once said‚ "One of our deepest cravings is to find logic in experience‚ but in real life‚ how little of our experience comes to us in such manageable form. ’TELLING’ is a way of groping of the logic of an event‚ and attempt to make the experience intellectually manageable. If a man who is in a state of blind outrage at his fate‚ can come to understand that the fate which had seemed random and
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