Antigone – Human Law VS Divine Law Through Antigone, Anouilh and Sophocles explore the idea of Human Law VS Divine Law, and how they affect the characters directly and indirectly throughout the play. Both authors express this through the way the characters experience and express their isolation. In both Anouilh’s and Sophocles’ versions of Antigone, the beliefs of Divine Law and Human Law directly lead characters to emotional isolation. Antigone believes in Divine Law throughout the entire play, which leads to her emotional isolation from Haemon and her fate. Creon believes strictly in Human Law throughout the play, which leads to his emotional isolation.
But unlike earlier philosophers, such as Socrates who were concerned with how to live a good/ethical life, and famously said ‘the unexamined life is hardly worth living’, both Nietzsche and Sartre are concerned with being and existence. The first and most important tenet of Existentialist thought is that Man Is Free. Nietzsche believed that the ‘will to power’, was the primary drive and the source of all creative activity and the key to human freedom. It was the all-important way to achieve freedom of the individual and that absolute objective truth of the world was an illusion and our search for such a truth is bred from fear. While having much in common with Nietzsche, both are atheistic existentialists, Sartre proposed that man is nothing but what he makes of himself and therefore by taking responsibility for his actions he can change his life and create a new Man.
This was suggested as naïve optimism and unrealistic by anti-transcendentalists. They though that people who desired complete individualism would give rise to the worst aspects of human nature. Hawthorne in his story shows that relying on one’s self is a type of evil. An initial reading may show this tale to be about the idea that sin is in all men’s hearts and that there is a universal desire to keep it hidden. However much we may want others to be transparent, it is impossible because everyone wears a veil.
They are shown to be worried as to whether or not they were ‘thought [to be] pretentious’, if they are ‘womanly’ and ‘sympathetic’. Many characters are held back by their self-doubt and struggle to develop without confronting or revealing their issues. Wolff indicates that although each character appears to be different and individualistic, they all share the ‘gaunt and pale’ face of vulnerability. In the first passage Wolff suggests that all characters have some sort of personal anxiety through recurring images of situations in which characters actions are driven by how people ‘thought [they] were’. Mary’s attitude, driven by fear of judgement and persecution, ultimately define her as a character, giving nobody ‘cause to dislike her’.
She was telling Oedipus not to care about the future and live like there is no tomorrow, which is a little bit odd since he is a king and they should watch out most for his and the city’s future. Another quote said by Iokaste worth to mention is “For God’s love, let us have no more questioning! Is your life noting to you? My own is pain enough for me to bear”. These expressions and how she keeps telling Oedipus to stop this search for truth, is definitely a hint that she already knows that he is her son, but she does not want to suffer the humiliation or the pain of what this would bring once everybody knows.
Why I Don’t Want a Baby Impromptu Throughout Polly Vernon’s article, “Why I Don’t Want a Baby”, she argues to prove people can live happy lives without a baby by appealing to pathos. In this article pathos connects with the readers through emotions. The two most prominent were anger and annoyance. In Polly Vernon’s case emotion was everything. Anger was a magnified topic when she discusses the decision with people of different reasoning and annoyance from being discriminated against every time just because of her choice.
Like a child, Holden fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity, but he is too out of touch with his feelings to admit it. Instead, he spends much of his time criticizing others. Ironically, he is often guilty of the sins he criticizes in others. Holden is clearly fearful of adulthood, but instead of acknowledging that it scares and mystifies him, he condemns it, claiming that adulthood is a world of superficiality, hypocrisy, and “phoniness.” Whereas, childhood, on the other hand, is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty. He explains that adults are inevitably phonies, and, what’s worse, they can’t see their own phoniness.
There are probably many individuals in the company that have the same sentiments as him but are too afraid to speak up. Mike may be able to create a change and inspire all of his co-workers. Spirituality and the workplace should be two completely different entities. They should not mix or cross in any form or fashion. Doing such only causes discord and a feeling of being uncomfortable.
To me the main reason why luv is so misunderstood is because the word TRUTH doesn't play its part. It could be that u are not being TRUE to urself about the relationship. Or it could be that they are not telling u the TRUTH about how they really feel. Wuteva the situation is, people need to understand that when the Truth is told, the relationship will be exactly what u want it to be. Many times, people get scared of the truth and try to hide from it.
Later in the play, More explains his silence to his wife again. He reinstates the importance of making statement in public or even privately so that his family cannot testify against him. His mind clearly shows his pragmatic line of thinking. Throughout the play he has made some tough choices but ultimately he chooses principles over pragmatism. His words on the Supremacy Act vouches for his choice: “Nevertheless, it is not for the Supremacy that you have sought my