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Oedipus Vs. Society - Online Term Papers

Oedipus Vs. Society

During Greek times, Oedipus committed the worst crime by marrying his mother and killing his father. The Greeks never looked down upon any criminal like they would look down upon someone who went against their family.
If one refers to the 1970's film, The Godfather, the Corleone family was very strict on family morals and they as well as the Greeks considered the family to be everything and if one went against the family it was punishable by death.
In today's society the family has lost some importance and peoples morals toward their kin have begun to decrease in the last few years. Now one sees parents beating their children and possibly killing them. Kids' killing their parents has ...

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main cause of this lack of morals is (in my opinion) directly related to the amount of sex and violence on television. Many years ago Elvis couldn't even shake his waist on TV, but now Sharon Stone can open her legs on a big screen for everyone to see. Violence has increased on television because sitcoms and movies will not sell in today's society without sex and violence.
In the future, life in general will eventually become a game involving survival of the fittest and killing your next door neighbor before he kills you. Movies and television should be screened so only kids mature enough to know the difference between Hollywood and real life can watch movies with hardcore violence and sex in ...

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Added: 10/19/2008 05:41:11 AM
Category: English
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