Narcissistic Personality

What is the meaning of Ego? In today’s world, it means “a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance”, it is to be self-centered and care for nothing else except for one's self or, in other terms, being an individualist. Today, people have been told to care for others instead of themselves, but that is not completely true. For example, Prometheus in Anthem by Ayn Rand- is not what one would consider to be a total egotistical person. Searching through different types of definitions and reasons about the definition of ego, the assumption is that egoism is not immoral or virtuous but the balance in between.

According to Aristotle a tragic hero should have a hamartia, or tragic flaw that evokes emotions from the audience. He also said that a tragic hero should go through a peripeteia, or reversal of luck, and anagnorisis, a realization, due to this tragic flaw. After reading Antigone you can see that Creon fits every one of these categories. However, Antigone doesn’t experience the realization that she had detrimental flaws, or an anagnorisis. Overall, it is much more logical to say that Creon is who Sophocles intended to be the tragic hero of this

In a way, through Anna’s words, Virgil blames her because of her thoughtless action. In other words, he enhances Aeneas’ manliness and authority by comparing him to Dido, who acts irrationally due to her crazy kind of love although she stands for another authoritative figure in the text. On the other hand, in the Heroines, Ovid narrates a different kind of Dido. With the use of first person perspective, he gives us a chance to dive into Dido’s inner thoughts and this, I think, is a way to show her rationality in contrast to Virgil who focuses upon just actions and interprets them as some irrational reactions. For example, in the Aeneid, Dido is represented as hateful even towards the little child of Aeneas as well as his nation.

Hermia and Lysander 's love causes them to leave Athens. While Egeus is trying to convince Hermia to marry Demetrius; Lysander objects, saying, "I am, my lord, as well deriv 'd as he, / As well possess 'd: My love is more than his . . . I am beloved of beauteous Hermia" (1.1.99-104).

Furthermore, similar to other tragic heroes, Gatsby has a tremendous fall from grace. F. Scott Fitzgerald threads numerous tragic hero archetypal characteristics throughout The Great Gatsby to mold Jay Gatsby into a modern tragic hero. Similar to the Greek writer Sophocles in creating the tragic hero Oedipus, Fitzgerald creates his tragic hero with a fatal flaw that ultimately leads to his downfall. While Oedipus exhibits the fatal flaw of hubris, Gatsby displays the character trait of naivety. Gatsby’s naiveness, shown through his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, drives him to his eventual death.

Both self-perception and the perception of self by others are critical in the forming of identity. Consequently, relations with people are vital in the cultivation and expression of one’s identity. Whereas healthy relationships allow for the expression of oneself without fear of consequences, unhealthy relationships put pressure on one to change for one’s partner. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God explores the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, focusing on how each affects the establishment of one’s individuality. Her novel’s exploration of how people’s connections relate to individuality reveals that oneself can only emerge from positive relationships.

Rational humans should be treated as an end in themselves, thus respecting our own inherent worth and autonomy to make our own decisions. This part of Kant’s ideology may limit what we could do, even in the service of promoting an overall positive, by upholding the principle of not using people with high regard, thus serving as a moral constraint. Deontology remains as the stronger ethical framework as it explicitly lists out how one should act morally through absolute, universal laws, and also by promoting not using others as a mere means, but rather as an end in itself. On the other hand, Utilitarianism, a consequentialist theory, stems from the idea that every morally correct action will produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people. The morality of an action is determined by the outcome of that action.

Oedipus is the king of Thebes but he was raised in Corinth by Merope and Polybus. Oedipus once solved the riddle of the sphinx, saves Thebes, and becomes king. Oedipus is of noble name and shows goodness. Oedipus flaw is that he is full of himself and receives an oracle from the prophecy. As the play ends Oedipus Has a huge downfall at the end of the book.

This quote is important to keep thought of because some men can be very open minded and pleasing, but men only care about getting woman pregnant and leaving them afterwards. A complete definition of love being a joke can allow us to understand how people are very self centered. Love suppose to be a way to show affection and not to think of love as a joke but to think of as a serious concept. Love is pleasing but at times, love can be risky due to how love can blind people. With the characteristics of love, people enjoy love but in The Tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the story slightly shows how uneducated people are when they discover love.

If Horace had not loved Pyrrha, he would still be under the impression that love is lasting. Evidently, Pyrrha is the reason that Horace has changed from a person who loves Pyrrha and believes that love lasts to one who does not love her nor believe that love