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Recognition and Reversal
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Recognition and Reversal
Oedipus is the main character in the Oedipus plays, and his character, as well as others, experience many recognitions and reversals. An example of recognition and reversal comes when Creon returns from the oracle with news that the solution to Thebes’ pestilence is finding Laius’ killer. Oedipus vows to find out who murdered the late king, and he succeeds. However, he turns out to have killed the late king Laius. The plot is reversed in that he had vowed to drive out the murdered, but he himself is the current king of Thebes. What is he to do?
The second instance of recognition and reversal comes when the shepherd from Corinth ascertains that Oedipus was indeed the child of King Laius and his wife. Jocasta, the widow of the late king and the current queen, realizes that the reveal means that she married her own son. She tries her best to dissuade Oedipus from further pursuing his investigation of who his birth parents were. Jocasta fulfilled the prophecy that Oedipus would marry his mother. When Oedipus realizes that he indeed married his own mother, he is shocked because he thought that he was from Corinth. Jocasta tried to keep the truth from him. Will the queen protect her son or avenge the killer of her late husband?
The third instance of recognition and reversal for Oedipus’ character comes when the messenger from Corinth arrives with the News that Polybus, the king of Corinth, is dead. Long before, the oracle had given Oedipus the prophecy that he would kill his father. The news that Polybus had died naturally brought him joy that he managed to run away from the prophecy. However, it soon comes to light that Polybus was not Oedipus father, and this leads Oedipus to probe further for the truth. He finds out that he did not escape the prophecy but killed Laius, his birth father.
Works Cited
Sophocles, E. A. Oedipus the king. Classic Productions, 1994.
Reasons for Joining the Nursing Program
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Reasons for Joining the Nursing Program
I have chosen the nursing career because of the vast fulfillment and the challenge it offers. I regard nursing as a career that offers never-ending training due to the myriad of challenges that arise in the healthcare profession. From my personal and work experience, nursing offers immense fulfillment due to the core values it promotes in its practice: caring for the most vulnerable and for human life. Working at the Tower Health Reading Hospital and the Albright College Gable Health Center has exposed me to various professions in Health Care but I am convinced that Nursing is the career for me since it offers the highest level of human interaction. The nursing career is also one of the few careers that have perks such as providing an opportunity to make a real difference in the world, offers a work-life balance, job security, career diversity, flexibility, provides room to grow, and high salary packages. Therefore, nursing does not only resonate deeply with my own personal interests it also resonates with my career goals.
I believe I make a good fit for this Nursing Program because I am dedicated, hardworking, and passionate in all my endeavors. I also have solid communication and interpersonal skills and I am highly empathetic. I have a keen sense of detail and not to mention, some experience in Public Health. With time and experience, I have learned to work well under stress and pressure and to be flexible. My GPA is also commendable. However, I do not attribute my academic success to grade-fixation or innate intelligence, but to the fact that I believe in hard work and that I enjoy new learning experiences that come my way.
Part I Milgram Obedience.
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Part I: Milgram: Obedience.
In his book, Obedience to Authority, Milgram gives his perspective of how obedience and authority have changed with the division of labor. I agree with Milgram’s views about obedience and authority due to the clips that support his ideas. When a person can see the whole picture, they can think about their actions and the resulting consequences and then decide whether to do something. With the division of labor, individuals have learned to play their role in any undertaking and then leave the rest to other concerned parties. In this way, people rarely think of the result or the bigger picture. This is precisely what happens in the clip. The teachers, in this case, are alienated from their actions. They know that shocking their learners causes pain. However, because the experimenter absolves them of all responsibility, the teachers feel emboldened to do whatever they want. They yield to authority and dissociate themselves from their actions.
Milgram’s experiment is an excellent example of using sociological imagination. Sociological imagination involves putting individual actions and situations in the context of the larger society, and the experiment achieves this. The teachers in the experiment yield to the authority of the experimenter even though they know the electric shock causes distress to the learners. In society, people tend to yield blindly to authority figures, especially when they are not responsible for their individual actions. For example, people will willingly do whatever a government agent asks them to because the agent is an authority figure, and this agent will bear responsibility for whatever happens. If the person is told that their actions serve a purpose in a larger scheme, this assurance persuades the individual and allows them to escape responsibility for their actions. Milgram has placed the teachers and experimenter’s actions in the context of the wider society, which is the very definition of sociological imagination.