Oedipus Rex - Greek Drama Themes - Mythology

OEDIPUS REX - GREEK DRAMA THEMES - SOPHOCLES

GREEK DRAMA THEMES

MYTHOLOGY AND THE GOD...

Early Greek drama, both tragedy and comedy, drew from the stories of mythology and legend. These myths illuminated universal problems, ones that could pertain to situations plaguing fifth century Greece as well as to past events. The ancient Greeks believed that tragedy should deal with illustrious figures and significant events, thus the pantheon on God is ever-present and, often, omniscient. Aeschylus ‘plays, for instance, often centred on the justification of the God ways in relation to humankind or the comprehension of the form of justice meted out by the God.

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Oedipus Re x- Greek Drama Themes - Strug & Rebell

OEDIPUS REX - GREEK DRAMA THEMES - SOPHOCLES

GREEK DRAMA THEMES

STRUGGLE AND REBELLION...

Greek tragedies all depicted struggles of some sort, most commonly between the state and individuals, between human law and natural law, or between human efforts and preordained fate. In many Greek tragedies, it is the person who rebels against the established order of things who becomes the hero or heroine. Sophocles’ Antigone depicts some of these struggles. Antigone defies her uncle Creon, the king of Thebes, when she performs burial rites for her brother.

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Oedipus Rex - Greek Drama Themes - Tragedy

OEDIPUS REX - GREEK DRAMA THEMES - SOPHOCLES

GREEK DRAMA – THEMES

TRAGEDY...

The first forms of Greek drama were tragedies. “The theme of all tragedy is the sadness of life and the universality of evil,” wrote noted scholar Paul Roche in The Orestes Plays of Aeschylus. “The inference the Greeks drew from this was not that life was not worth living, but that because it was worth living the obstacles to it were worth overcoming.” Through suffering, the tragic hero is able to learn and grow. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were the great Greek tragedians, and they brought distinctive themes and perspectives to their works. Aeschylus transformed tragic drama into great literature.

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How people of Diverse Religions, Castes & Cultures - part two

    HOW PEOPLE OF DIVERSE RELIGIONS, CASTES AND CULTURES - PART TWO
                                 MAY BE RIGHT. MAYBE WRONG?

He also writes, "The wedding day was the only time in a woman's life when she was the queen of the day." Sounds familiar?

Eraly's forte as a research scholar becomes most obvious when he turns to the peasants lot in that poor rich country whose population was made up of, in his works, the producers and the predators - a description that goes a long way in breaking the myth of the MUGHAL world.

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How people of Diverse Religions, Castes & Cultures - part one

     HOW PEOPLE OF DIVERSE RELIGIONS, CASTES AND CULTURES - PART ONE

It is interesting to note how people of diverse religions, castes and cultures had come together to form a fragmented society where peace, if not harmony, was a determining value.

So green was that VALLEY.

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Muhammad Mehmood Alam - fairyage

M.M. ALAM - FAIRYAGE

Muhammad Mehmood Alam, or M.M. Alam as he is better known, was born in Calcutta, British India on 6 July 1935. He had been facinated by toy aeroplanes since childhood. He was in his early teens when he saw Pakistan achieve independence, and he was determined to become a defender of the nation.
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here...Faust - fairyage

                                                here...FAUST

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; he is a highly too much successful Scholar person, but also he is dissatisfied with his own life, and so he makes a deal with the devil, he exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works.

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here...Faustus - fairyage

                                          here...FAUSTUS

The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus...

"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,

And burnt the topless towers of ilium,

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.''[kisses her]''

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Historical Background & Their Global Aspects

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND...DESCRIBE VARIOUS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS & THEIR GLOBAL ASPECTS

DEFINITION...

Telecommunication is defined as any Transmission, Emission or Reception of Signs, Signals, Writing, Images, Sounds or Intelligence of an nature by Radio+Optical or other Electromagnetic systems.

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Dastan-i-Ghadar - British India Time

DASTAN-I-GHADAR...BRITISH INDIA TIME

Zahir Dehlvi was a Mughal noble at the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar. He was at Delhi when the rebellion broke out and witnessed the important events which happened at the court and in the city.

Afterwards he wrote his memoirs known as the DASTAN-I-GHADAR. In the first part of the book, he describes the life of the court and cultural activities of the city. The Red Fort used to be the center of cultural activities where, under the patronage of the emperor, different festivals and gatherings of poets took place. He vividly narrates the marriage ceremony of Mirza Jawan Bakht, the favourite son of the emperor.

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The VIOLENCE of history - 1971 & the silencing of women

             THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY - 1971 AND THE SILENCING OF WOMEN

"Rafi and I started our work in Rangpur, in northern Bangladesh, a remote, agricultural region not for from the Indian border.

Our first interlocutor was beauty, a war baby. Beauty requested me to use her real name because she wants the world to know her story and, if possible, enable her to reconvene a human life as a person.''

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