Jason betrays her when he decides to remarry to the princess of Corinth, so Medea conspires to kill the princess and her father for letting it happen. She ends up doing exactly what she planned and getting away with it. In this play, Medea would represent evil and the people that she wants to kill represent goodness. As portrayed in the quote, goodness is defeated. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, Winston is the protagonist that unwillingly works for a minor part of the government called The Party.
He is able to instill fear in those who are beneath him as he uses corrupt government ideals and abuses his power. When Antigone quarrels with Creon in regards to burying her brother properly, Creon refuses to listen, as he says, “no woman shall be the master while [he lives]” (Sophecles I, ii). By refusing to listen to anyone and making his own decisions, Creon asserts his hierarchy and marks his place as the dictator; he will not allow anyone else to make their own decisions. Having power Creon does instills fear in others and causes them to treat him with the upmost respect. Because Creon is the only leader with total power, he refuses to “take [his] orders from the people of Thebes” (I, iii).
Her unhealthy self-love can be seen in her relationships in which she uses sex to control men and always appears to have a hand on them, especially turning to sex when the man gains any sort of will or power to insult or leave her. Because of this narcissism she is extremely self-centered, trusting no one and even attacking her family when they disrupt her perfection. Her damaging and corrosive psyche was likely caused by the pressures of the movie industry in which she claims to have worked her up form nothing. The pressures of competition and treachery have caused her to from extremely egotistical defense mechanisms that prevent her from normal interaction with other people, even her own children. As for her insecurities and ensnaring of men for her own benefit it is possible that she may have had an abusive father or a domineering mother who was likely divorced, abandoned, or abused, obsessing her with the need to have power over men either as compensation for her powerless childhood or as a result of her mother’s teachings and distrust of men.
All the pent-up sexual frustration and emotion is then used to encourage hatred for the Party’s political enemies through ferocious displays of antagonism. The Party even brainwashes the citizens into believing that the purpose of marriage is to
In the story “The Payoff” by Susan Perabo, the narrator Anne is drawn into a scheme well beyond her years. As a sheltered young girl she is acutely aware of her naïveté of the complexity of adult life and adult relationships. But after stumbling upon her principal and young art teacher in a sexual act, Anne by the urging of her more mature best friend Louise, joins in the plan to blackmail them for just twenty dollars. Louise is obviously an influence on Anne and pushes her in a direction Anne knows would make her parents disappointed. However, she agrees to the plan without much resistance, probably because she is fascinated by the sexual relationship she now finds herself innocently involved in, unbeknownst to the adults involved.
Also, both governments change the past. V for Vendetta and 1984 both used torture to gain information from the characters. Now, V used torture methods on Evey to prove to herself that she didn’t fear anything anymore unlike how O’Brien tortured Winston to mentally break him. Both the movie and the book had a love connection between the characters. Winston and Julia’s relationship was a rebellion against the party because when they would have sex they were rebelling and also they both shared the common hate towards the party.
George and Martha play a series of games in order to measure themselves against one another; not only against each couple, but also individually. Martha seduces Nick in front of his wife to test her sexuality, her greatest asset. Indeed, she puts on a sexy dress, and talks about her sexual past in order to gain authority and power. George intimidates Nick with all sorts of questions; he teases him and interrupts him without really paying attention to Nick’s replies. Alcohol in the scenes at first serves as a way to mask true emotion throughout the evening.
Like a normal man that has an immensely gorgeous girl in her late teens thrown at you, John Proctor fell in sin and committed adultery and had sexual relations with Abigail. This gives Abigail a pseudo-sense of anticipation that they will once be together. But this all twists invalidately, when Proctor shuns her down for his wife and good name. Subsequently Elizabeth Proctor known of this affair and as in result Elizabeth is forced to let Abigail go as the servant in the Proctor house.
The constant struggles to achieve authority and power greatly influence the fate of the characters. Agamemnon is a signifier for political power. He thinks that a “person will wince at the thought of opposing [him] as an equal” (Lawall, p.111, lines 196-197), demonstrating his military and political strength. The warlord refuses the ransom Chryses offers him for his daughter “and [dismisses] Chryses with a rough speech” (Lawall, p.108, line 33). The reason for his refusal was not the girl herself but rather what she represents to him; Chryseis represents his dominance over a territory because she was the prize given to him after the conquest of Thebes.
It is his need to reconcile what he knows with the Party’s version of reality that leads to his arrest. The Party cannot allow people to have a perception of reality that is different from theirs. A quote to show this is when Winston writes in his diary, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” This shows just how controlling the Party was over what the commoners were allowed to think. Although Julia is a party member, she, like Winston, participates in activities banned by the Party.