Flying Towards Fate
Beginning of paper
“It is never a sweet thing to draw out a long, long life in
cheerful hopes, and feed the spirit in the bright benignity of
happiness: but I shiver when I see you wasted with the ten
thousand pains, all because you did not tremble at the
name of Zeus: your mind was yours, not his, and at i ....
Middle of paper
.... be, or his particular life, man refuses to deny his own aspirations. He will discover and make decisions that provide meaning, which allows purpose and dignity in his existence, or he will proclaim loudly that he will never abandon these aspirations because they ought to be there.
Greek tragedy was written as an affirmation of these ideals of an individual man plagued with the conflict of his universe and the fate that governed him. The prime function of these dramas was to express the feeli ....
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Word count: 3255
Page count: 12 (approximately 250 words per page)
