Sonny's Blues And Antigone Comparison

Sonny Blues Paul Pearshall once said “Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted”. In this story the conflict of responsibility takes place. A brother, who happens to be the narrator, blames his self for the events that takes place in his life, such as his brother sonny’s crack addiction. The Narrator feels responsible for his brother’s heroin addiction because he believed he shut his brother’s career goals down, felt as though he went against what his mother asked him to do, and because he chose not to believe that the way he treated his brother affected his brother life.

She was reading angry at her brother because he destroys the family making the parent suffer emotional and mental. She explains how the brother addiction turns her house outside down with this attitude. However, the brother addiction makes the parents to never give up on him even though his negative behavior toward them. Parents love him unconditional because it was their son. Even though he was not on the best path, they still support him and be on his side because they believe that he can change.

She is a self-absorbed fifteen-year-old girl that is obsessed with her beauty. The opening of the story is quite different for two of the stories. For Baldwin, he begins the story with a more recent event and use flashback memories to show us how Sonny’s ends up addicted to heroin and how their relationship worsens. For Oates, she begins the story with introducing the

how does power comes into play with respect?In the story Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone disrespect the king ( Creon) orders not to bury their brother Polyneices in a way to show respect to their brother. Always follow your heart only when it right no matter what the consequences are.In the play Antigone , Antigone fights the issure of burying her brother is the right things to her, but on the other hand the king thinks she shouldnt because her brother was so called a trader to him but she dosent respect his athority and still buries him.Antigone also dragged her sister into it but her sister didnt want to get involved because she respects the king and his athority, but later on in the story her sister wanted to join and help bury their brother biut antigone didnt want her too.“And if I have to die for this pure crime,/ I am content, for I shall rest beside him;/ His love will answer mine” (lines 72-74).This quote explains the way she feels about burying her brother.

In the process of wanting to gain honor, he had backstabbed Medea by demoting her from the status of a legal wife to that of a concubine. The words “disowned her” help to emphasize on this fact. When she was with Jason, she had put on the face of Athenian women but when she lost her only connection with Athens she turned into the barbaric animal who couldn’t control her impassionate emotions anymore. The plot is seen to end right after Medea does justice to herself by destroying Jason’s new family and by killing her own children. The structure of the plot portrays the importance and significance Euripedes associates with marriage

His first indication of his egotistic behavior is when he embarks on the task of creating life. His egotism and cowardice manifest itself even more when it not only leads to the death of his younger brother William, but also to that of Justine the young girl accused of murder, and his childhood friend Clerval( Storment, 2002). Victor claims at hand to admit to the murder so that he will be incarcerated however, he abstains from coming clean in light of the fact that he is embarrassed about himself and his unsuccessful experiment which has hurt his sense of self-pride furthermore society

Through this conversation, the narrator gained respect and insight on Sonny's life in the times that he was not there. Sonny was cryptic in his speaking at first but eventually made it very clear to his brother and even said, "the reason I wanted to leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs" (89). The narrator does not have much to say, but ultimately blames all of this on the "vivid, killing streets of [their] childhood" (73), that neither of them had truly escaped. He once thought they both had, him by becoming a teacher and Sonny by simply not living in Harlem for years, but in this moment, he realizes that not much has really changed - they still faced those streets, the only difference now was that they knew what they inherit. Sonny convinced his brother to come watch him play - the narrator knowing he could not possibly say no.

And while Tennessee Williams was repressed by his father for enjoying poetry and was even pulled out of university to work at a shoe company, his escape was writing. Tennessee has given Tom these exact same obstacles and outlets for frustration, and the only reason he does not make Tom explicitly gay is because of the time the play was written, 1944. A time when homosexuality was considered a mental disorder that need to be correct through acts of electrical shock treatments or conversion therapy designed to “pray the gay away”. Even Rose was experiencing some mental health issues in her life and as a result was given a frontal lobe lobotomy, and when that didn’t work she was admitted into a hospital for the rest of her life. Which I think is what the ending of the play symbolizes, when Laura blows out her candle, she has been lobotomized, and hospitalized.

When justice is not served out correctly revenge is the path many people take, in this novel Antigone, will ultimately defeat Kreon’s unjust law by avenging her brother regardless of the laws. When justice is not served people’s, love become enraged with disappointment, hate and disparity and is used to protest the problem to a deeper

Just slightly. Less than a year.” (Williams 54). Blanche is lying about her age because she is trying to gain attention to make herself feel better about herself. Throughout the play, the addiction Blanche has to alcohol is revealed little by little. Blanche is the master of liars and lies about the attraction that she has to alcohol.

He wanted to become a musician however his brother did not approve of his choice and when sent to live with his brother’s fiancé, found that they only endured his piano playing and found him a burden. He went into the navy after that, and after coming out of the navy, was arrested for using and selling heroin. All the anguish, trouble, and suffering that Sonny went through to become who he was, was put into a song and that was Sonny’s blues.

Not only does Plath believe that her father is out to get her, but also she believes that he is out to get her mother. This worsens the relationship between Plath and her father. K.G. Srivastava states “In the passage, the poet is describing her father in the ugliest possible manner” (126), this shows us that Plath’s relationship with her father was not the best. Plath wants to get away from the psychological grip her father had on her without letting go of the parts of him she still loves.