Lysistrata, an ancient comic play, tells the story of Lysistrata as she schemes with other Greek women to end the Peloponnesian War, a conflict between Athens and a league of city-states led by Sparta. Lysistrata convinces women on both sides of the war to agree to withhold sex from their husbands until a peace treaty is signed, and a chorus of old women helps emphasize the influence that women have on the conflict. The women's plan is successful in this political comedy that touches on ideas of reason and resolution.
Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria is a psychoanalytic case study by Sigmund Freud. The study concerns Freud's controversial failed treatment of Ida Bauer (Dora), who was his patient in 1900. Freud analyzes Dora's dreams and background, diagnosing her with hysteria and claiming that it was the result of her sexual frustration, both her jealousy of her father's relationship with Frau K and her repressed desire for Herr K, whose sexual advances she rejected.
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis is a collection of lectures by Sigmund Freud, intended as a supplement to his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. The lectures outline and clarify many of Freud's main theories about the conscious ego, the erotic and chaotic id and the moralizing societally-imposed superego. Freud also outlines his theory of the dichotomy between eros and thanatos (the life and death-drives, respectively), and his beliefs about female sexuality, characterized by penis-envy.
William Shakespeare intensifies the emotion of love and foolishness in the epic tale of four lovers and an enchanted forest in his classic Midsummer Night s Dream Early in this work we learn of two young maidens Hermia and Helena and their unfulfilled passions Hermia the daughter of a gentleman is cast into the burden of marrying a suitor Demetrius chosen by her father for which she does not love Instead she has fallen for Lysander To agitate further Helena is madly in love with Demetrius who t
In the short story Regret by Chopin the protagonist is the main character Mamzelle Aurelie The author uses both showing and telling to give the reader information about Mamzelle Aurelie Within the first paragraph of the story the reader can quickly see that Mamzelle has never been married shes tough and that she dresses like a man Mamzelle Aurelie is portrayed as a woman with masculine traits Her good strong figure she wore a mans hat about the farm and an old blue army overcoat when it was col
English Essay Meursault is much a victim of his own attitude to life and society as he is of the judicial system Meursault is the protagonist of the novel The Outsider by Albert Camus To begin with Meursault is not an ordinary man in the street The title of the novel is aptly named referring to Meursault The title of the novel literally means The Stranger in French Meursault behaves as an outsider and a stranger in a sense that he does not conform to societies values and beliefs Meursault is de
In Jose Saramagos Blindness a group of seven strangers cross paths and band together when an epidemic of white blindness strikes the country Through their journey all seven characters change for the better and some like the girl with the dark glasses changed more that the rest With this change each of these peoples limits is tested both physically and emotionally Yet in the end they all come together and are able to survive by dealing with their situation The change in the girl with the dark gl