Essays 31 - 60
having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...
is important for it illustrates one of the reasons why the hero is determined to go back. Because she is honorable and admirable t...
this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...
a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the...
spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...
If we look to biology the definition of masculine is related to that of male. The male animal has testicles as opposed to ovaries...
and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...
is presented as an outright competition in the story of their contest for recognition as the patron deity of Athens" (65). In Boo...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...
father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...
and suicide because life did not work out well enough for a particular character, Anna Karenina. We are also given the strong expe...
among all the Gods have renown for wit (metis) and tricks" (The Museum of the Goddess Athena). As one can see, Athena does not lov...
also notes that even when she met with her husband near the end she still did not run into his arms, remaining cautious and loyal ...
Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...
rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...
lay there / lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears..." (17.317-318). We read that the dog is lying on a dung heap; hes full of tic...
home, as though they own everything. One would perhaps expect Penelope, or Telemachus (the man of the house so to speak), to ins...
story of Odysseus sets him up as a noble man, regardless of what someone may know about Greek codes of conduct. He was a noble man...
Telemachus says: "But come, stay longer, keen as you are to sail, / so you can bathe and rest and lift your spirits, / then go bac...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...
was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...
a conduit between two otherwise strangers. Poetry is as diverse a means of communication as any medium, yet there are vast arrays...
allowing them to be less complex than they often are in real life. In the Old Testament in the bible, they tend to be rather simpl...
see the shades of Penelope or Telemakhos here -- but implores Odysseus to give him a decent burial before his body is ravaged by s...
In 2 pages this paper examines how in Books IX through XII of 'The Odyssey Odysseus becomes mature enough to embrace his destiny w...
This paper contrasts and compares how women's rights are depicted in The Bible, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and The Thousand and One N...