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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Walking on the moon - Moon walker - part one

WALKING ON THE MOON – DAVID R. SCOTT – PART ONE

Sixty feet above the moon, the blast of our single rocket churns up a gray tumult of lunar dust that seems to engulf us. Blinded, I feel the rest of the way down “on the gauges”. With an abrupt jar, our lunar module, or LM, strikes the surface and shudders to rest. We have hit our target squarely a large amphitheater girded by mountains and a deep canyon, at the eastern edge of a vast plain.

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Whistling of Bird's - part three

WHISTLING OF BIRDS – PART THREE

Such a long, long winter, and the frost only broke yesterday. Yet it seems, already, we cannot remember it. It is strangely remote, like a far-off darkness. It is as unreal as a dream in the night. This is the morning of reality, when we are ourselves. This is natural and real, the glimmering of a new creation that stirs in us and about us. We know there was winter, long, fearful. We know the earth was strangled and mortified, we know the body of life was torn and scattered broadcast.

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Whistling of Bird's - part two

WHISTLING OF BIRDS – PART TWO

          

All the time, whilst the earth lay chocked and killed and winter-mortified, the deep undersprings were quiet. They only wait for the ponderous encumbrance of the old order to give way, yield in the thaw, and there they are, a silver realm at once. Under the surge of ruin, unmitigated winter, lies the silver potentiality of all blossom. One day the black tide must spend itself and fade back. Then all-suddenly appears the crocus, hovering triumphant in the rear, and we know the order has changed, there is a  new regime, sound of a new Vive! Vive! Vive!

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Whistling of Bird's - part one

WHISTLING OF BIRDS – D.H.LAWWRENCE 

The frost held for many weeks, until the birds were dying rapidly. Everywhere in the fields and under the hedges lay the ragged remains of lapwings, starlings, thrushes, redwings, innumerable ragged bloody cloaks of birds, when the flesh was eaten by invisible beasts of prey.

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I Found a Delightful Valley fairyage

I FOUND A DELIGHTFUL VALLEY - ROBINSON CRUSOE

Robinson Crusoe is the name of a book by Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe was born in 1660. He worked at a number of trades before he started to write at the age of forty. When he was nearly sixty he wrote the story of Robinson Crusoe. It was a great success and has been p0opular with children ever since. In this short piece from the book, Robinson Crusoe tells us how he became shipwrecked.

We started off on our voyage in good weather. After about twelve days, however, a violent tornado came from the north. The waves rose high, and the wind howled through he sails. Two members of the crew were washed overboard, and after a day or two the ship began to leak.

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The issue of too much currency “INFLATION”-part two

                             The issue of too much currency “INFLATION” – part two

Natural calamities can cause inflation. If the production of a country is affected by floods or famine etc. Its ultimately result is inflation and there will be an increase in price.

War is another important cause of inflation. The war always creates inflation in the economy of a country for example; Pakistan was making progress by leaps and bounds before indo-Pakistan war 1965. After that war the economy of Pakistan was badly affected and in 1971 indo-Pakistan war brought the worst setback for the people of Pakistan. As a result it found no other way except to devalue its currency to rebuild the economy. Then the flood in 1973 spread destruction in all over the Punjab and Sindh and took thousands of lives. Besides, the sharp increase in oil price proved as worst for the economy as the 1971 war. As a result of all this the prices increased sharply. The balance of payments came to the lowest limit. The currency was once again devalued and the result of it was rise in prices.

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The issue of too much currency “INFLATION”-part one

                          The issue of too much currency “INFLATION” – part one

• Inflation describes a typical situation when the demand for goods and services exceeds to the available supply.
• Ordinarily inflation means a general rise in the price.
• The whole world is facing this problem.
• A sudden increase in the circulation of money also describes inflation.
• Natural calamities like floods and famines can cause inflation.
• Pakistan has faced these situations in 1965 and 1971 due to wars and in 1973, worst floods were the main cause of inflation.
• Standard of living,international circumstances and political crisis may cause inflation.
• To overcome this problem is a difficult task but economists suggest some remedies.

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The Damned Human Race - part three

                            THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE - PART THREE - final

Man is the only patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"-with his mouth.

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The Damned Human Race - part two

                                   THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE - PART TWO

In the course of my experiments I convinced myself that among the animals man is the only one that harbors insults and injuries, broods over them, waits till a chance offers, then takes revenge. The passion of revenge is unknown to the higher animals.

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The Damned Human Race - part one

                                 THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE - PART ONE

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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Duties of a Student - fairyage

                                                       DUTIES OF A STUDENT

Students are the greatest asset of a nation. They have unlimited energy and enthusiasm for greater tasks. They have always taken part in social service and other activities of noble cause. Students enjoy many rights and facilities in their institutions. So Alongwith the rights, there lie some responsibilities and duties as well.

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The nature of science - What science is - part three

THE NATURE OF SCIENCE - PART THREE

WHAT SCIENCE IS 

Looked at in this light the ideas of science wear a new aspect. We find that the importance of a scientific idea depends, frequently enough, upon its value rather than on its truth. This applies, e.g., to the concept of the reality of an external world or to the idea of causality. With both the question is not whether they are true or false, but whether they are valuable or valueless.

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The nature of science - What is science - part two

THE NATURE OF SCIENCE - PART TWO

WHAT IS SCIENCE

Of course, we are so far from a single set of laws for all the sciences that we can scarcely go logically from physics to chemistry. We are closer to-though still far enough from-more limited ideas of the unity of science: unity on the basis of terms or of methods. There have been relatively successful attempts to create a common body of terms for the sciences, so that propositions of one science can be meaningful in others. And, despite great differences in the procedures and apparatus of the particular sciences, it is possible to approximate a statement of the most general methods of science so that they are applicable to all science.

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The nature of science - What science is - part one

THE NATURE OF SCIENCE - PART ONE

Science is often defined inadequately as "an organized body of knowledge". This would make cookbooks, Sears, Roebuck catalogues, and telephone books science, which they are not. Sometimes science is defined simply as rationality, but that would make much of theology and metaphysics science, which they are not. Rationality is logical consistency, lack of contradiction. It is to be distinguished from reasonableness, the quality of a mind open to arguments and evidence opposed to its beliefs: a willingness to reconsider. Rationalists can be quite unreasonable or dogmatic. Rationalist meta physicians and theologians are often certain about premises which come from intuition or revelation. Even paranoiaces may be though of as rationalists, for they are commonly most rigorous in reasoning. But their premises, which they cling to in spite of all evidence, are absurd.

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The OSI reference model

                             IN THE OSI REFERENCE MODEL

In the OSI reference model, the communications and related-connection functions are organized as a series of LAYERS OR LEVELS with well-defined interfaces, and with each layer built on its predecessor. In particular, each layer performs a related subset of primitive functions, and it relies on the next lower layer to perform additional primitive functions. Moreover, each layer offers certain services to the next higher layer and shields the latter from the implementation details of those services. Between each pair of layers, there is an interface. It is the interface that defines the services offered by the lower layer to the upper layer.

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Why the Emphasis on Technology?

WHY THE EMPHASIS ON TECHNOLOGY?

Suppose you need information on how well your department is meeting its sales goals. Thirty years ago, you probably would have had to submit a requisition to the vice president of sales' office. The response may have taken a couple weeks, and the information would have been in whatever format the sales department dictated. Today, however, a few keystrokes on your computer produces that information almost instantaneously. Moreover, it will be precisely the information you want-which may be entirely different from the information one of your colleagues needs on a similar account.
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What is a Knowledge Worker?

WHAT IS A KNOWLEDGE WORKER?

knowledge work jobs are designed around the acquisition and application of information.

Knowledge Workers

Individuals whose jobs are designed around the acquisition and application of information.

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