Electra complex Essays

  • The Electra Complex In A Rose For Emily

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    Barron. It is clear that Emily suffers from the female version of the Oedipal Complex, which led her to kill Homer Barron. Many of Freud’s writings investigate the nature of sex, and often involve a discussion of human genitalia, and sexual gratification. Within the development of young girls, Freud discusses a phenomenon known as the Electra Complex, which is the feminine counterpart to his theory of the Oedipal Complex. As said in “ A Rose for Emily” excerpt “ Miss Emily a slender figure in

  • Love And Revenge In Hamlet

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    Imagine you come home from college and your father is dead and your mother has married your father's brother. Would you be on the verge of insanity? Would suicide be an option? Throughout Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, The characters discover a sense of excitement and suspense. New discoveries lead to new awakenings and a constant change in consciousness. Shakespeare goes back and forth on the topics of death, love, and revenge. Hamlet is having a difficult time choosing between life or death, not only

  • Boys And Girls Character Analysis

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    Family Relationships in “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro and “Responsibility” by Russell Smith Families both modern and past share the commonality of complex and complicated relationships between their members. These relationships may be founded on love and support while others may have disappointment and a lack of understanding. While there exist some differences in the parent-child dynamic in “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro and Russell Smith’s “Responsibilities”, they are similar in the child’s

  • The Significance Of The Ghost In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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    After the king Hamlet died, his ghost still appeared in different places of the play. The ghost wanted to talk to his son Hamlet to tell him all the truth about what happened before he died. The first thing that he said was that he did not died by a snake bite, but killed by his brother Claudius. The ghost told Hamlet to take revenge of Claudius. The second thing that the ghost told Hamlet was that he should do no harm to his mother, even though she married her husband’s murderer. Before the ghost

  • The Doppelganger In Frankenstein

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    Defined by Frederick S. Frank as ‘a second self or alternate identity, sometimes, but not always, a physical twin’, the doppelganger, or the double, has been a recurring theme in literature for centuries (1987:435). The themes that occur in literature tend to reflect the interests and attitudes of the society and time period from which they originate, and whilst the popularity of the doppelganger motif has remained constant over the past few centuries, the depiction and interpretation of doubles

  • Hamlet's Madness In Hamlet

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    Hamlet Hamlet is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare. It is a play that involves numerous deaths. Hamlet is the main character in the play and he is depicted as an insane person. Hamlet faked his madness so as to confuse Claudius and his assistants in order to find the truth about the death of his father. He acted strange when he was around the king and his attendants and this is evident when he tells his friend Guildenstem that "his uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived" (Shakespeare)

  • Examples Of Racism In Night Of The Living Dead

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    Racism’s not Dead: A Look at the Racism Occurring in the movie Night of the Living Dead Hordes of flesh eating murderers move slowly towards a defenseless white girl, she has nowhere to run, seemingly out of nowhere, a black man comes to the rescue as a white family ignores the obvious screams for help from the other side of a door. This exact situation occurs in the film Night of the Living Dead, and although he does everything he can, the main character, Ben, still ends up shot by the very people

  • The Role Of Oipus Complex Theory In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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    Did this unorthodox behavior restrain Hamlet from his destiny? The death of the late King Hamlet also marked the beginning of a new marriage, the marriage of Queen Gertrude to Hamlet Sr brother, Claudius. The Oedipus Complex Theory can be applied to Hamlet. The Oedipus Complex theory is the desire of a relationship between child and parent (Loewald). If Hamlet was truly attracted to his mother, this would delay his plan to murder Claudius. Hamlet was being deprived of his mothers affections by

  • Sex In The Victorian Era

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    The destruction of the mystery of sex has caused that this activity provides less pleasure for modern people. The Victorians did not boast about the sexual experience. Mary is not entirely innocent, she is a peasant. The Victorians are seen as prudish, because of the middle class. A true view of their behaviour, culture can be found in the reports of people who studied it. In this time, premarital sex was something usual, women were getting married when they were pregnant, in order to have somebody

  • Theme Of Emotion In Hamlet

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    The ability for an author, character, or actor to portray certain emotions is key and can potentially change the whole storyline of a play. Shakespeare's writing is no exception and may sometimes leave the reader confused. Throughout the play of Hamlet, there is a constant battle between love and revenge amongst the characters, which causes the reader to vacillate between the idea of which emotion the plot is based around. In the play, the protagonist, Hamlet, is confronted with the problem of his

  • The Monster's Alienation In Frankenstein

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    In the novel Frankenstein,by Mary Shelley, the mysterious and unnatural origins of the character of Frankenstein’s monster are an important element. The Monster, having been created unethically and haphazardly, is at odds throughout the novel, resulting in his alienation from society and prolonged feelings of anger, desertion, and loneliness. Shaping his character, his relationships with other characters, and the meaning of the work as a whole, the Monster’s origins are what define him. The Monster

  • Justice In The Oresteia

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    ustice, fairness, and decency, abstract concepts that are innate in society and human nature. However, despite their near universal status in humanities mid, they often have different meanings for individuals. Aeschylus uses The Oresteia in order to explore these issues as characters in the play try to determine what it means to be just, what ought a just actor do, and what is the best model for achieving justice. The characters discuss ideas such as vengeance, reciprocity, balance, moderation, and

  • Frankenstein By Mary Shelley: Character Analysis

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    Imagine being looked at and automatically being assumed in the most negative, narcissistic way possible; this was what Frankenstein's unnamed monster faced throughout his life. In Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the monster that Dr. Frankenstein made is experiencing this exact problem, even though he did nothing to deserve that treatment. The book Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, conveys a strong message of people always relying on their own experience and ideas before objectively seeing a situation

  • Female Characters In The Iliad

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    Introduction The course of literature, though it continues to modernize and move forward as us, it is still a reflection and culmination of history. Relics of the past still linger and in one way or another in literature, Greek literature being one of the prominent relics that were used in historical literatures and are still being used today. Many of the modern age literature burrowed plot devices, concepts and archetypes from the Greeks. Even in movies and television series, there are various

  • Sigmund Freud And Erikson's Theory Of Personality

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    Personality does not have a specific definition, however its popular definition is ‘a dynamic organisation, inside the person, of a psychophysical systems that create the person’s characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts, and feelings’ by Allport (1961, as cited in Maltby, Day, & Macaskill, 2013, p. 5). Personality is important in many areas of life as it can be used to predict behaviour or even the success of a person. Thus, psychologists are interested to seek to explain the motivation basis

  • The Importance Of Nobility In Hamlet

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    Nobility is a trait that many men seem to desire. It is not necessarily genetic nor can one purchase it like other traits, such as clothing, but rather earns or demonstrates nobility. What makes one noble is not easily determined, despite being the desire of many individuals. Whether it is nobler, more honorable, and more admirable to live on one’s knees or to die on one’s feet has been a source of debate for centuries. In his tragic play Hamlet, William Shakespeare proves that it is nobler for

  • Psychology: Oedipus Complex By Sigmund Freud

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    Oedipal Complex, also known as Oedipus complex is a term used in psychology which was introduced by Sigmund Freud in his theory Psychosexual stages of development, in the book Interpretations of Dream. It describes the feeling of sexual involvement of a child towards the opposite sex parent and a feeling of jealousy or rivalry towards the parent of the same sex. For instance, a boy feels that he is in competition with his father for the possession of her mother. Similarly, when a girl has feelings

  • The Odyssey Essay: The Role Of Women In Homer's Odyssey

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    In spite of the fact that Homer’s Odyssey is an epic story of a man’s gallant journey, women play a huge part throughout. Their unique yet controversial personalities, intentions, and relationships are vital to the development of this epic and adventurous journey of Odysseus. The poem by Homer was written at a time when women had an inferior position in society, yet that didn’t stop them from being any less influential. All of the women throughout the Odyssey possess different qualities, but all

  • Isolation And Isolation In Frankenstein

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    In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the two main characters that the book centers around are the scientist Victor Frankenstein and his creation, known as the monster. While these two characters share the bond of life, their connection is not as strong as it could have been. Due to a multitude of factors, including the reaction to the appearance of the monster, these two characters were pushed further within themselves until everyone around them was gone. This alienation drove many of the important

  • King Ken Arok Analysis

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    This chapter will discuss the journey of King Ken Arok in building Singasari kingdom and assess his life story as depicted in Kitab Pararaton according to Joseph Campbell’s outline of Hero’s Journey. The epic hero of Kitab Pararaton is Ken Arok, an incarnation of Wisnu who was born of a poor widow. Through ups and downs and a lot of crime-committing, Ken Arok succeeded in becoming the first king who built the Singasari Kingdom. Unfortunately, his past of hurting people to achieve what he was ‘destined’to