YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Odyssey by Homer Book XI
Essays 121 - 150
In six pages this paper examines 'The Aeneid' in terms of the dialogue with the dead featured by Virgil and its difference with 'T...
sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...
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...
is presented as an outright competition in the story of their contest for recognition as the patron deity of Athens" (65). In Boo...
guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...
that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...
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...
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...
journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...
and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...
Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...
Goddess). She even enhances his physical appearance in order to assure he gets home. "Once Odysseus reaches the city that Nausi...
note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...
In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...
In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...
In 7 pages this paper discusses the similarities between 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer and Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' in a...
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...
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...
In five pages this essay considers the audience and poet relationship as represented in 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante and 'The Odys...
to his position, he represents all the virtues and flaws of a man, in spite of the fact that he is only part human. But it is the...
son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...
see the shades of Penelope or Telemakhos here -- but implores Odysseus to give him a decent burial before his body is ravaged by s...
This paper contrasts and compares how women's rights are depicted in The Bible, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and The Thousand and One N...
In three pages this paper examines the literary relationship between theme and setting in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and 'Circe' by Eu...
In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...