"The Lion King" The moral of the movie "The Lion King" is "Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you"(Quotes). The movie tells about a young lion prince, named Simba, who has a tragic accident as a cub and turns his back on his past and where he came from. The story begins with simba just being born and his kingdom bowing with respect for him and his parents, Mufasa and Sarabi. Simba being born made his uncle, Scar, second in line to recieve the throne and this angered his uncle very much.
Caesar was given a crown three times and the people wanted him to have it, but all three times he rejected it to look good in front of the people. Brutus never wants a dictator for the republic because his father worked hard to keep Rome a republic: “My ancestors did from the streets of Rome the Tarquin drive when he was called a king” (Shakespeare 56-57). Cassius’ father was a noble man and when someone tried to put himself as a king, the fathers of Cassius and Brutus ended up killing him. Cassius wanted to do the same ‘heroic’ deed as his father in killing Caesar. Because of the uprising led by Brutus’ father, Cassius and Brutus conspire to do the same thing.
From that moment on, Beah gives up hoping for a return to his childhood surroundings. Beah's drafting into the Sierra Leone military further desensitizes him as he is trained to kill men in the field of battle. His trainers use emotional manipulation--teaching the boys to picture their targets as the men who burned their villages and killed their families--to push the boys to acts of violence agains the rebels. Beah finds that he must suppress his emotional reaction to the atrocities he commits or lose his focus and, thereby, his life. This emotional isolation is a barrier to Beah's recovery; only the
Both uncles fail to slaughter their brother the first time. However, they do succeed in killing the king on their second attempt. Scar and Claudius are also very sneaky and conniving to all. They both put on a phony and welcoming face to acquire what they desire. In the end, both Scar and Claudius end up dying the same way as they killed their brother.
In Sophocles “Oedipus the king”, Oedipus was sent to mount Cithaeron as a new born baby to die after his father (King Laius) was cursed by the gods and heard of a prophecy that his son is to kill his father and marry his mother (Queen Jocasta). The Shepard in charge of this could not kill the baby so instead Oedipus is adopted. Later Oedipus hears about the prophecy, and leaves, afraid that the prophecy would come true. Along the way he gets in a fight with a man and kills him, unknowingly his father. He then solves a riddle from the Sphinx, which has been terrorizing a kingdom, and in return, the kingdom gives him their queen's hand in marriage, which is his biological mother.
Towards the conclusion of the novel, Piggy, Ralph, and Samneric, go up to Jack’s tribe to get Piggy’s glasses back in a civilized manner, but fighting begins and, “Jack had backed right against the tribe and they were a solid mass of menace that bristled with spears.”(180) This scenario depicts the sudden decline of and almost complete loss of civilization. The tribe has their war paint on and assume fighting position instead of trying to talk the situation out, like civilized people. The once lovely, little British boys turn almost totally savage. Once the boys transform to complete savages, Ralph will have no one to help him. Piggy dies and moments after Piggy’s death, Jack, “began screaming wildly.
Sample Legal Brief Citation: Kreon vs. Antigone Facts: Kreon, uncle of Antigone, who is now the king of Thebes, the very moment he became the ruler he pronounced to follow Thebes’s death rule of burying his own nephews. He proclaimed and was honored to bury Eteokies because he wanted to fight for the city, but he forbids to have a burial ceremony for Polyneikes because Polyneikes was the one that wanted to destroy the city Thebes, and Kreon did not like the fact someone like him wanted to destroy his own city. Antigone in the other hand, is the very opposite of her uncle, she declares to bury her own brother. Antigone does not care what will happen to her. She is eager to break the rules of Thebes for her own brother.
In the story of Oedipus Rex, the god Apollo creates a prophecy about the young son of Jocasta and Laius. When Laius goes to read the prophecy, his sons horrific fate is revealed: he will grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. In an attempt to rid their family of a terrible fate, they give the baby to a herdsman to dispose of the child. Over twenty years later, the child of Jocasta and Laius is very much alive, and has no knowledge that he has killed his actual father and is married to his mother. After he realizes the terrible acts he has committed, he exiles himself and takes out his own eyes.
They say a hero can be found anywhere at any time than you know he’s true, for one person who knows that the honor to fight for the king because it is what they owe to him for helping their father. The beast is no more he has been defeated by a warrior with no sense of similarities to another warrior. I couldn’t help but notice that the king needed help because he was struggling with the beast Grendel; so I decided to offer my life to help defeat him. The beast was just continuing to bother the king Hrothgar and destroying the castle, he came upon me and I just knew I had to leave my homeland to go to his. So here’s the truth behind what happened.
But after his first year, he refused to step down. Thebes was then marched on by Polynices following six foreign princes. Each brother was killed by one another during a duel after all who battled were defeated. After the death of the brothers, Creon, their father’s brother-in-law, became king. An order was made by Creon to only bury Eteocles because he defended the city, leaving Polynices to rot and be eaten by dogs.