Essays on Destiny Page 2

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the most well- known tragic plays in existence. Oedipus, the King of Thebes, is the victim of a curse in which he must suffer the tragedy of his own unchangeable fate. The tragic heroism of Oedipus befalls him because of his heroic qualities and his loyalty to his Thebans…

Tomas Hardy, a controversial writer in the Victorian era, lived for two centuries. Due to his family life and educational background, Hardy was familiar with many ancient Greek fairy tales and biblical stories. In his representative fiction, Tess of The D’Urbervilles, Hardy employs various symbols to reveal the tragic fate of Tess, parallel to Hamlet’s…

A Representation of Perplexity and Death: Analysis of the Monstrosity of the Sphinx in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Sir Francis Bacon’s “The Sphinx”             The sphinx, as a mythical creature, represents perplexity and death. In its many versions, the sphinx may be said to be a representation of perplexity in its employment of riddles…

As Guy Gavriel Kay once said, “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” The idea of destiny is controversial because some argue that it controls people and affects lives, while others say one chooses their own destiny. Two examples of texts that are highly based around…

Consolation by Boethius: An Analysis of Prose and Poetry             Consolation by Boethius, was written in 524 A.D. while Boethius was in prison waiting his execution.  In his writing, Boethius questioned how God could withdraw his support for an individual and how his friends and supporters could turn their backs on him so quickly.  He…

In Hardy’s novels chance plays a predominant role. His characters are puppets in hands in the hands of malignant chance or fate which robs them of any chance of happiness. It works both from without and within. All the misery and the sorrow that we see in the world, are there because some external power…

Past is past. From whom do we often hear this quote? We frequently hear this from different people around us which experienced a lot of things in their lives such as: those people who experienced falling in and out of love and do not want to talk about what they had before hence they bring…

Most of Shakespeare’s plays are conceived around a foundation in either tragedy or comedy, this polarity of themes allowing him to experiment with the full range of human emotions. Typically, an integral part of a Shakespearean tragedy is love, which is frustrated by a breakdown in order, or the character of the hero, due to…

In the late 1800s, Thomas Hardy wrote a novel that is notable for its tragic portrayal, a recurring theme seen in his other works. The conclusion of the story is also tragic, reflecting Hardy’s belief in fate and drawing parallels to Greek tragedies. Interestingly, the novel mirrors the structure and themes explored by Aristotle in…

Sophocles put a batch of beds of significance in his Creon and Antigone. For ancient Greeks these great calamities were non merely an amusement. but they besides possessed a batch of philosophical significance which made people think about many different jobs. When reading Sophocles’ play Antigone we get into a hard life state of affairs…