"8 The father think that he has fulfilled his mission while he scatters his boys everywhere. ... He simultaneously functioned as a social critic and moral guide as he believes that: The playwright must dig at the roots of sickness today as he feels it the death of the old God, the failure of science, and materialism to give any satisfying new one for the surviving primitive religious instinct to find meaning for life.17 It must be noted that the deepest emotional drive in O'Neill‟s plays is usually based on the father-son, father-daughter and mother-son relationship. To briefly c...

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To his beloved children he'll be shown a father who is also a brother; to the one who bore him, son and husband; to his father, his seed-fellow and killer- (1266). ... Tiresias knew he killed his father before he became king, married his mother (Joscosta), and even had children with her. ... Carter 4 He knows these names not because he hangs out with them but because he possesses psychic powers. ... Jocosta and Oedipus' father, Laius were both told of a prophecy that specified if they did not kill their son once he was born, he would kill his father and bear children with his mot...

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She allows him to kill himself never letting on that she knows about the attempted suicides. ... In contrast to male characters of the play, female characters lack the vivid, multi-layered human quality that male characters seem to possess. They are flat, two dimensional, lifeless, stereotypical portrayals of such women as a devoted mother, a mistress, and a barfly. ... Linda Loman, central male character"'s wife merely suffices as the acceptable notion of generic mother figure from its era. ... (661) Infinitely loving and devoted to her husband, Linda appears to possess no identity of he...

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Victor is the handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. ... His father doesn't mind. ... When his father later abandons both his mother and him, Victor dreams of a homecoming and stands on the porch all night long waiting, wrapped in his mother's favorite quilt and pretending to hear the missing motorcycle and Jimi Hendrix' guitar. ... Victor goes to phoenix to get his father's ashes according to movie ,but on the other hand in book his main intention is to get valuable belongings of his father. ... Thomas was an infant when his paren...

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Although Antonio is only six years old he possesses a questioning mind, a great deal of moral ethics, and an appreciation for the seriousness of life. ... His father is a vaquero who wants Antonio to ride the llano and appreciate the open prairie, while his mother is a daughter of farmers who wants Antonio to become a priest. ... However, Ultima helps him appreciate the beauty of the plains that his father loves so much. ... For example, her explanation that the men of the llano will not kill without reason is an attempt to address Antonio's curiosity regarding the morals of murder. ... M...

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The classic tragedy, Oedipus tells the story of the King of Thebes, Oedipus who foolishly tries to challenge fate and evade prophecy, which proclaimed that he would murder his father and marry his mother. When trying to free Thebes of a plague he discovers that the prophecy had, in fact come true and he did murder his father and marry his mother. ... Shamefully was I born: In shame I wedded: to my shame I slew (PG 85) Oedipus has finally accepted tat he murdered his father, Laius and married his mother as his pride falls and he is enlightened to the truth. ... Hamlet is a story about a prince ...

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The poison was hoped to be just strong enough to kill the fetus, yet mild enough to keep the woman alive. Also, sometimes women would receive physical blows to their abdomen an effort to kill the fetus. ... The case set boundaries and regulations illustrating how much power the mother and state possess in deciding whether to abort a pregnancy (12 Tribe). ... Demented fathers may also rape their daughters which is called incest. ... Abortion author Faye Ginsberg states that, never in the history of the United States has the state granted one citizen the right to have another...

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The boy says, "My father, they have killed me!... For example, Nwoye prefers his mother's fairytale stories, instead of the bravery and war stories his father continuously tells. ... He wants his son to attend his story-telling and not his mother. ... When Nwoye pretends not to like his mother's stories, his father is satisfied and does not beat or rebuke him. ... Okonkwo fires his gun, but it explodes and a fragment of metal kills Ezeudu's own son. ...

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Abstract Psychology Theories Sigmund Freud is one of the most famous psychologists to ever hit the study of psychology. His name alone symbolizes the importance of his theories, and the name that comes to most people's heads when saying the word psychology is Sigmund Freud.  In the following paper, the reader will grasp the idea of psychoanalysis with the history, as well as examples of Freud's own psychoanalytic work. "Freud is important in the history of psychology, but he is more important in the history of ideas." His ideas have influenced literature, philosophy, ...

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His father is Tony Tarantino, who was an actor, as well as an amateur musician. ... Tarantino's parents separated before his birth, and he never met his biological father. ... Orange kills Mr. ... White, who kills Eddie. ... White kills Mr. ...

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In psychoanalytic theory, it is a son unconscious sexual love for his mother and his subsequent hostility and jealousy toward his father. A similar attraction of a daughter to her father and rivalry with her mother; more specifically called the Electra complex. ... The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. ... Morel does not smother her youngest son, Arthur because he is too much like his father. ... Her sons become her bailment in emotion and object of love in spirit, and she even indulges in the affection ...

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"I am your uncle you remember how your mother said that her brother died in the wars?" ... "That lone warrior was me I stood alone against the dragon it almost killed me but I wouldn't let all of Hydrax be destroyed so I killed the beast and used his skin to forge the Dragon items that you stole from the vault your lucky I allowed it and that the guards recognized me," replied Ezio. ... "My mother," said Rythian, "I promise to avenge you mother I swear until my last breath that I will avenge you," then started to cry then Ezio walked over and sat next to him and said, "I will help you ave...

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For Pecola, a belief that if she had blue eyes she would have an ideal life guides her; for Pecola's mother, movies provide that same hope and escape. ... In the last section of the book titled, "Summer", Pecola is raped and impregnated by her father resulting in further exclusion for Pecola. ... After being unable to process and accept the fact that her father raped her, she receives her wish of blue eyes in a disturbing form; Pecola encounters the spiritualist Soaphead Church, a self-proclaimed "Reader, Adviser, and Interpreter of Dreams" who finds pleasure in hating othe...

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The novel Sula illustrates how important the role of a mother is and can be. ... When look at closely, the problem might be the fact that Helene herself struggled in her relationship with her own mother since she was ashamed of her mother's occupation as a prostitute. ... Helene fails to provide Nel with the sense of the unique self-worth when she makes her daughter pull her "broad flat nose" which Nel inherited from her father (Morrison 18). ... Few of the rebellion acts that Nels displays toward her mother are seen in the novel. ... Still, the revelation that there exist peop...

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The first instance of a personal misfortune takes place, when Celie is forced by her father to marry a stranger. The person she marries is actually in love with Celie's sister, Nettie, but their father decides Nettie has too much potential to succeed in the world to marry so young; therefore Celie is the next option. ... She is with Mr._ solely because her father wanted this and Mr._ is with Celie, because his children need a mother. ... This situation is unfortunate because once Jing-Mei's mother dies; she realizes that they did possess many of the same qualities. ... (Tan 143) ...

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Kristeva shifts the focus from Lacan's mirror stage to the preverbal stage in which differentiation from the mother is still murky--in other words, to the very inception of subject formation. Abjection stems from very early feelings of separation from the mother. ... Lawrence casts out his Prologue, because it admits Birkin's desire to possess male bodies. ... Gerald kills his brother and lives as outcast in his own mind. ...

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ROBERT SCHUMANN ~~* HIS LIFE *~~ In Zwickau, Germany on June 8, 1810 Robert Alexander Schumann was to bookseller father, Friedrich August Schumann, and mother, Johanna (Christiane Schnabel). ... He wished to become a poet saying, "I possess imagination, but I am not a profound thinker."" ... Friedrich made attempts to get Karl Maria von Weber as a composition teacher for his talented son, but unfortunately Robert's father died at this point, leaving Schumann to live under the rule of his mother: a stubborn, strong-willed, and dull woman. Following his father's death in 1826, ...

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ROBERT SCHUMANN ~~* HIS LIFE *~~ In Zwickau, Germany on June 8, 1810 Robert Alexander Schumann was to bookseller father, Friedrich August Schumann, and mother, Johanna (Christiane Schnabel). ... He wished to become a poet saying, "I possess imagination, but I am not a profound thinker."" ... Friedrich made attempts to get Karl Maria von Weber as a composition teacher for his talented son, but unfortunately Robert's father died at this point, leaving Schumann to live under the rule of his mother: a stubborn, strong-willed, and dull woman. Following his father's death in 1826, ...

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This desire motivates him to kill virgins to able to create a perfume for him. ... By letting the mother addresses the newborn Jean as "the thing ", the mother's disgusted tone both emphasizes and foreshadows Jean's desire and abomination later on in the novel. ... Moreover, Jean was not just abandoned by his own mother alone but also by Father Terrier, the monk of Saint-Merri. ... Even though Father Terrier was afraid of him, the fear was not similar to Jonathan Harker's fear. Harker was overwhelmed by the superiority that emitted from Dracula but Father Terrier was fearful of ...

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The tape eventually makes it into the hands of Rachel Keller, (Naomi Watts) a single mother and her young son, Aidan, who throughout the film has a special bond with to what ends up to be the killer. ... By saying this, along with the fact that she has to pick up the boy (later find out to be her son, Aiden) up later than expected, the audience can tell that this women lives a hard working life, busy in all areas and may get the feeling that she has no love interest because there is no father figure type to help out. ... Again this is done deliberately to show that Aiden has to do a lot of thi...

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She was the daughter of an Irish immigrant father and a French Creole mother. Kate was the third of five children, but her sisters died in infancy and her brothers, from her father's first marriage, in their early twenties. ... S In 1855, a short time prior to her father's work-related death, at age 5, she was sent to a Catholic boarding school in St. ... Louis, only to have her mother die the following year. ... He was her mother's neighbor and soon came to play an important role in Kate's life. ...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...

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In Anthropology (1881) Tylor made it clear that man alone possesses culture. ... The mother-in-law taboo is a complex of concepts, attitudes, and acts. ... When one considers the mother-in-law taboo in its relationship to the place of residence of a newly married couple, the customary division of labor between the sexes, their respective roles in the society, and these in turn to the technology of society, the mother-in-law taboo becomes, again by definition, culture. ... Man alone due to ability possesses culture. ...

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Born out of wedlock on January 12, 1876, he never knew his father, William Henry Chaney, who had left Jack's mother, Flora Wellman, 2 before jack's birth. ... He started to work hard at a very young age for his father was ill, and he was the one responsible to help support the family. ...

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At the age of three Tiger was given his first set of clubs from his father Earl, even as a small child it was not hard to see his amazing potential to become a great golfer. ... "Earl begins making Tiger psychologically tough, Tigers training at this time was mostly looked after by his father who would intentionally distract Tiger at every opportunity while the seven-year-old tried to shoot... Tiger's decision was highly influenced by his mother's ideals, she stated, "that golf is not a priority. ... My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away some of my youth....

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