Composition AP Period 5 August 31, 2015 Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and The Myth of Sisyphus Questions 1. Why would some of the people of Athens be antagonistic to Plato’s story? They might be antagonistic to Plato’s allegory because it essentially is saying that the people of earth are the same as the people in the darkness. As Plato writes that those who live in the darkness would destroy and maim anyone that comes back from the light, the Athenians may interpret the allegory as a work that espouses
endeavour to study Sons and Lovers from a mythological psychological standpoint. Freud, in his model of the psyche, distinguishes between two drives: the death drive (Thanatos) and the life drive (Eros). While the life drive includes the survival instinct and stimulates creativity, the death drive is the stimulator of self-destructive impulses, violence, and the wishes for death (Carel, Born to be Bad: Is Freud’s Death Drive the Source of Human Evilness?). The life drive and the death
ignore them. They were provoked by the hypocrisy of the upper class people. They criticized the ignorance of the British government for the needs of the lower class citizens (Lacey 19). These playwriters including John Osborne and Kingsley Amis were from the working, lower middle class origin. They struggled against the Establishment and the class-system that opened the doors for the rich and ignored the rights of the working class. Their works discussed the topics and the problems of the roofless
Classical Period is hailed the high water mark of Ancient Athens, seeing great leaders such as Kleisthenes and Pericles as well as the great tragedian playwrights. All these changes are well documented and thoroughly taught, but one element of the shift from the Archaic Age to the Classical Period that is of particular interest is the change in attitude towards death, specifically the views held by the Greeks on the Underworld. As we enter the fifth century, marking the onset of the Classical