All I seemed to get out of the article "On Wall Street, Pride Signals a Fall" is that hubris is everywhere. In case you're wondering, the definition of hubris is excessive pride or self-confidence. Something that I thought was interesting was the line "Hubris goes out of its way to let you know of its existence, while humility does not." That's a very profound statement. Being proud of oneself tends to lead to boasting whereas humility causes one to stay silent. Being proud usually makes someone more ambitious, and then they move higher in the hierarchy of the business. As the article said, "Whom the gods would destroy, they first put on the cover of Business Week." And the reasoning behind my picture is that Wall Street typically has men in suits. So the only suitable picture would be Justin Timberlake in a suit, right? Anyway, hubris definitely plays into literature. Oedipus was proud of his accomplishments, he boasted of defeating the Sphinx, and he had an inflated self worth. All that adds up to hubris. Major hubris. Everyone knew that Oedipus was proud of himself because he wouldn't stop talking about it. That led to a major fall from grace on his part. If he had been humble, he may have made it out of the whole mess, but since he was "full of himself", the tragedy was exponentially worse. In Antigone, hubris led to the death of the two brothers. Kreon had the same thing happen to him. Antigone was humble. She simply wanted to bury her brothers whereas Kreon took the burial attempt as a personal attack. He had a big ego due to his recent ascent to the throne. Without hubris, that emotion that overcomes even the best of us, tragedies wouldn't be quite so tragic.