Narcissus And Masculinity

His characters often display this humanism in their flaws, natural desires, and lack of the conviction that the classic heroes often presented in Greek theatre, and were given flaws, doubts, vulnerabilities, and true problems without the presentation of a deus ex machina; in fact, many of the fates of his characters were directly influenced by their flaws. His characters were also known to hault dramatic action in preference for a more psychological and insightful

Ancient greece evoked many things, and one of them was tragic hero. Tragic hero is someone who can be noble, tragic flaw, reversal of fortune, suffers, recognition, and catharsis. Noble, is someone that is important, they have a high status, and hold an official title. Reversal of fortune is when someone’s life is good at the beginning and ends up being bad or someone life is bad and ends up good. Suffering, is someone who is feeling pain and hurting.

In the Ancient Greek tradition, a tragedy includes Hamartia which is, Peripeteia, Nemesis and Hubris. Hamartia is the hero’s tragic flaws. Peripeteia is when the hero has a reversal of their fate, nemesis is the consequences of the hero’s actions and hubris is an overwhelming pride. An example of a tragic hero would be Walter White from Breaking Bad. Walter White goes from loving family man to a drug kingpin in a short couple of years, showing his ultimate undoing and demise.

Boris Pasternak once said, “often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.” This phrase expresses that a single man can make a whole city suffer. However, even though some men can be horrific, others can represent the ideal man. In Edith Hamilton’s thrilling novel, Mythology, Theseus, the mythical king of Athens, represents the ideal male because of his kindness, intelligence, and bravery.

Greek tragedies are disturbing stories that make it seems like the hero is destined to commit self-harm. For instance take Sophocles play 's Oedipus the King and Antigone, where both their destines meet its toll. Oedipus the King was written first, the play begins with the kingdom of Thebes under a pelage because someone killed former king Liaus. Oedipus being the solicitous individual that he is commits to finding the culprit without knowing he is condemning himself. Oedipus had to go through several individuals to realize he is his father 's murder and his prophesied was fellfield when it was said he would kill his father and marry his mother.

In the epic poem, the Iliad written by Homer, several characters taking part in the warfare between the Achaeans and the Trojans are portrayed as embodying the heroic code of courage, physical strength, leadership, arete of value of honour, and the acceptance of fate. The heroic code is illustrated by the actions of the Trojan prince, Hector and the Achaeans strongest warrior, Achilles. Both of these characters display the Greek’s image of a hero, and can also let the reader discern what the society admires, looks up to and aspires to in its heroes. There are also characters who fail to be heroic, such as the Trojan “vivid and beautiful” prince, Paris. These characters in the Iliad illustrate the qualities that Ancient Greek society values.

I played volleyball in high school. My sophomore year I was on the Freshman-Sophomore team and received a trophy for Most Valuable Player. It was a big deal, one of only a couple trophies that I would ever receive while playing sports. I proudly displayed it in my room. It served as a constant reminder that hard work and teamwork pays off.

It can be seen as a trend throughout history that stories reflect a society’s culture and values. One of the most memorable and inspirational civilization that made a substantial contribution to literature was Greece. Sophocles, a renowned Greek playwright, is beloved for his dramatic and action-filled plays that effectively satisfied the ancient audience. In Sophocles’ tragic play, Oedipus the King, the main character, Oedipus finds difficulty proclaiming his purpose against the fate bestowed upon him by the gods. Alongside his struggling, the values and cultural aspects of the Greeks emerge, reflecting their views on society during that time period at which the play was produced.

Considering the fact that both gentlemen are from different regions, backgrounds, and life stories, it is difficult (yet not impossible) to relate and compare their strides of self righteousness as time plays by. While the world of tragedy is broad and sometimes unforgiving, Aristotle’s literary theory and its portrayal of tragedy help to connect paths that may not have intertwined

The word Narcissism comes from a legend of Ovid’s of Narcissus in Metamorphoses in which a young handsome Greek man falls in love with his reflection while gazing into a pool of water. The handsome young men unable to unite with his loved object, dies heart broken. The myth started with the themes of lack of self-knowledge, a deep yearning of a reflection of one’s self, the fear of being possessed and taken over and turning away from objects.   The young Greek man unable to meet a replica of him was an egoistic person who strongly portrayed traits of someone who has a case of narcissistic personality disorder.

In the book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Dorian can be seen as a modern day narcissus. The whole novel portrays characteristics from the Greek mythological story about Narcissus and his love for himself. Dorian and Narcissus can be seen in the same way, for they both have narcissistic personalities. Their personalities is what carry the plot throughout the two stories and have such an impact on what happens. The Picture of Dorian Gray and the tale of Narcissus both show the common plot of a young male being in love with himself, which in the end, results in the tragedy of the two stories.

Their deaths are one example. In the story, Echo and Narcissus, Narcissus is described as slowly fading away. In the Goblet of Fire, Mrs. Diggory said, “ He suffered very little then,” when talking to her husband about their son’s death. Also, the two have different qualities. Narcissus only loved himself, hence the term narcissistic.

Narcissism can be define as a self-centered and egoistic view about themselves (merriam-webster.com). People who usually take selfie can be catergorized as individual who are insecure about themselves and would hope to gain some attention from other people. This sentence may sound very contradicting to the definition of narcissism where individual are define as egoistic and self-centered but it 's not. The reason why people with narcissism think that the attention are on them is because they are afraid that people won 't notice them and they would actually fool themselves in thinking that they are under the spotlight. Thus, this notion of theirs would prompt them in investing most of their time and energy in taking the 'perfect selfie ' just so they can gain recognition from others.

As time went on, Narcissism became more about over exaggerating, and believing that you're special and entitled to anything you please. This definition configured by the American Psychiatric association developed the idea that Narcissism isn't good or bad, but instead a disability. The rest of the article tells about different views on narcissism from two different books that Acocella gives her opinion on. The first book that Acocella analyses, (for the majority of the paper) is Vanderbilt University history professor, Elizabeth Lundbeck's The Americanization of Narcissism, which Acocella is not very fond of. The second book, which Acocella takes a better liking to is Princeton's Simon Blackburn's Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love.

Beauty is defined as a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588: “Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.” Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote: “Beauty, like supreme dominion Is but supported by opinion.” David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include: "Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." These phrases show that the idiom Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder is somewhat true, but does not answer why women do so much to be considered beautiful.