America’s blindness in instigating the Iraq War, now proving to be an abject failure, resembles that of Oedipus.
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Tag Archives: Oedipus
Oedipus in Iraq
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Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Aeschylus, Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, Euripides, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hamlet, King Lear, Medea, Midsummer Night's Dream, Oresteia, parents and children, Phillip K. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Richard Shelton, Romeo and Juliet, Sons and Lovers, Sophocles, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Competing Heroic Narratives in Super Bowl
One Super Bowl narrative: Manning as the return of the king. Another narrative: Manning as Laius blocking the way of the next generation. Plus: Belichick-Welker in Oedipal drama.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bill Belichick, Denver Broncos, Homer, Odyssey, Peyton Manning, Seattle Seahawks, Sophocles, Super Bowl, Wes Welker Comments closed
An Ideal Mother
When I think of a mother-son relationship that most matches my own, I think of Betsy Trotwood and David Copperfield.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, mothers and sons, Parenting, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Sophocles, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Comments closed
JFK as Ancient Greek Hero
Ancient Greek literature provides us with a power lens through which to examine the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Manziel: Whom the Gods Would Destroy…
Johnny Manziel has “Greek tragic hero” written all over him.
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Joe Paterno, a Modern Day Oedipus
The lessons of the Sophocles play “Oedipus” can be applied to disgraced Penn State coach Joe Paterno.
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Roger Clemens, Greek Tragic Hero
Roger Clemens tried to bully his Congressional interrogators the way that Oedipus bullies witnesses. To say that he should have handled himself differently is to say that he should have been a different man.