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here are two last minute essays for AP...
Amaro, Jasmine
November 2, 2005
Mrs. Owens AP English
Topic: Compare and contrast Oedipus to one other tragic figure.
Oedipus and Medea
Oedipus the King, a story of a short tempered prideful king who bewedded his own mother, and fathered his own siblings. An abandoned wife who wants nothing more than to make the man she married and who in turn betrayed her for another woman to suffer for all eternity is Medea's plot line. These two characters are alike but very much different, be seen by merely glancing over at their two different themes. Both Oedipus and Medea seek revenge, but their reasons for their revenge and their outcomes are very different.
Pride and blind you and lead to being unreasonable, which was Oedipus's tragic in Oedipus the King. He was so prideful and presistent on the truth of what happened to Laius the former king of Thebes, that he got the truth about his whole life; and the truth was that he killed his father, married his mother, and fathered his own siblings. Not that it was at any fault of his own, but had he listened to Teiresias, the blind oracle, and not persued the truth on knowing the truth about King Laius's death. Oedipus is pretty much innocent in all of his actions, and I feel as if it much of it wasn't any of his fault unlike Medea.
Medea, was a murderous witch and princess of Colchis who deceived many a person before the beginning of the play. I feel that Medea had what was coming to her, even though Jason's, Medea's husband whom she helped capture the Golden Fleece, excuse was a sorry excuse of him marrying another woman as being in the best interest of everyone. With Jason's treachery she goes "off the deep end" and plots on how she could make her once beloved Jason suffer for all eternity. She completely writes off her tornment for the sake of getting rvenge on Jason; she plots to murder her own children, who are innocent in this dispute between former wife and husband. She felt her suffering over murdering her own children will overcome by the suffering that was awaiting Jason in the end.
Oedipus and Medea are alike because they wanted something that was in the end would destroy them one way or the other. The difference was that Medea deliberately planned out her suffering and destruction which I know would come to her, if it already had not, and Oedipus choose his but he didn't know the pain that was to come from his persistenceness. What I think is funny is how Oedipus, although more innocent in his affair, suffered more than Medea did in her's.
Amaro, Jasmine
November 2, 2005
Mrs. Owens AP English
Topic: Write about the inner pull between a character in Anna Karenina.
Kitty
She is the love interest of Konstantin Levin, who although loved her other sisters wanted to marry Kitty, even though she was much younger than he. Kitty herself was smitten by Count Alexey Vronsky, a popular, and very rich military man. In the first part of Anna Karenina, Kitty is left with the decision to choose between these two men, Levin whom worked out in the country with the peasants, or Count Vronsky a very prominent socialite whom her parents very much approve of. I believe Kitty's inner struggle is between her heart and what everyone else is saying is the perfect match and what is socially right, which many people are faced with everyday. In what I believe that Kitty made a mistake, which is very quickly realized within the next chapters when Madame Karenina appears. Although Madame Karenina was also smitten by Count Vronsky, she opposes him, and avoids him as much as possible. Through this incounter, the way Kitty sees it, Count Vronsky loses his interest in Kitty and persues Madame Karenina feverishly. Kitty then starts to become ill from here ill-seletected choice; in her heart she wanted Konstantin Levin to be her husband, but wanted to make the socially correct decision to please everyone else. Just as in Macbeth, when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth become derranged from their actions of killing King Duncan for their own greed and against their own conscience suffered from delusions, and guilt that spilled over into Lady Macbeth's demise. Kitty's inner struggle could have been avoided by her simply choosing with her heart and not by following soceity's rules, which I believe is overrated, and overly depended upon, not as much in our present-day but when must people had no other choice. |
