Freud is one of the most famous social scientists of the twentieth century and has had a lasting and profound effect on it. Even today, most Americans, if not most citizens of the world are familiar with ideas like the id, ego, superego, Oedipus complex and a variety of other psychological terms. In addition to ...
In Arthur Miller’s essay, “Tragedy and the Common Man,” he outlines his ideas on what a tragedy and tragic hero are today. He argues that the tragic hero does not have to be a king or of a noble background, but instead, the common man can be considered a tragic hero. Miller makes the point ...
I really enjoyed watching Hamlet.I’m not into Mel Gibson as of late, but I think he did an excellent job in Hamlet. His eyes and his expressions really portrayed emotion. I was very pleased with the rest of the cast as well, although I think that Kate Winslet probably played a better Ophelia than Helena ...
Frantz Fanon was born in 1925, to a middle-class family in the French colony of Martinique. He left Martinique in 1943, when he volunteered to fight with the Free French in World War II, and he remained in France after the war to study medicine and psychiatry on scholarship in Lyon. Because of his schooling ...
The famous director Orson Wells said, “The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.” It is evident in the two film versions of Hamlet by Frank Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh both directors are interpreting and portraying the same play in ...
Women did not appear on the stage in England until the seventeenth century. The roles of women in William Shakespeare’s plays were often played by young boys. However, Shakespeare wrote quite powerful roles for the women in his plays. He tended to make male characters the primary protagonists, but the female characters held dominant supporting ...
The title of this piece is no doubt one that many viewers of Gilmore Girls have asked either themselves or anyone who might be watching the show with them. What, exactly, does Rory Gilmore see in Logan Huntzberger? Aside from Rory’s dad, Logan is unquestionably the least interesting-not to mention least likable-character on the show. ...
Sigmund Freud’s well-known theory of the Oedipus complex “explain[s] the maturation of the infant boy through identification with the father and desire for the mother” (“Oedipus complex”). Perhaps less well-known is the female counterpart to this theory, the Electra complex. The theory, developed by Freud and coined by psychiatrist Carl Jung in reference to a ...
Before explaining what, exactly, Freud meant by the Oedipus complex, one must first become familiar with the myth on which his now famous complex is based. Oedipus, who was the son of Laius and Jocasta, was a member of a family who had been cursed. Because of the curses of Pelops, Oedipus was destined to ...
Ancient Egypt is known for great pharaohs and amazing rituals. An advanced people for their time, who had not only a culture, but a spoken and written language. Their belief in the after life, and the elaborate tombs that were created to help their deceased successfully crossover. These amazing monuments still stand today, the pyramids ...
