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Wanted To Marry Queen Elizabeth
1,255 wordsMarriage is a complicated thing that is effected by many things. People let things stand in the way of marrying the person they love. Circumstances sometimes determine whether marriage is appropriate or even possible. The same is true with Queen Elizabeth. She did was she thought was best for herself and her country. Queen Elizabeth I was tempted by many things but refused to marry for the good of her country. Elizabeth never really wanted to marry which stemmed from her fathers many marriages. ...
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Fate And Free Will In The Odyssey
1,371 wordsWhen we look at Greek Mythology we often run into the gods of that era. Sometimes they are merely backdrops to the human element of the story but in stories such as The Odyssey the gods play a prominent if not vital role to the central themes of the story. Fate has a place in the Greek world but its place is not the same as it is in other scenarios or worlds. It is important to understand the word before we discuss it. Fate as far as Greek mythology goes is not just fate. By most standards fate ...
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Family Honor Journey Home
610 wordsIn the intricate and well-developed plot of The Odyssey, Homer harmonized several subjects. One of these subjects was the quest of Telemachos in correlation with the journey of his father. In the beginning of the epic, Odysseus son, Telemachos, is a childish, passive, fearful, and untested boy, but in the end, he has developed into a young man ready to stand by his fathers side and defend his family's loyalty and honor against the suitors. Telemachos path to manhood is directly correlated to the...
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Robert Fitzgerald Death Threats
1,522 wordsIn Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey, many scenes exist that parallel, predict, and contrast each other in various ways. For example, the self-revelation scene in book IX from line 548 to line 592 where Odysseus announces his name to the Kyklops, and also in book XXII from line 36 to line 84 when he reveals his identity to the suitors in his great hall. These two scenes closely relate to one another in both similar and contrasting ways. Both scenes are based primarily on the self-re...
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Hospitality Heroism And Honor Journey To Discover Telemakhos
1,132 wordsLiterature Essay: Telemakhos Voyage In the epic the Odyssey, Homer explores a variety of different themes that are prevalent in antiquity. Such themes include the treatment of strangers, hospitality, heroism and honor. Homer uses the character Telemakhos, the son of the main character Odysseus, to help convey the themes of the story. From the beginning when Telemakhos goes out to seek for his father and after he helps his father defeat the suitors, we witness the changes in his character, as we ...
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Odysseus Shows Hubris Hubris In Believing Polyphemus
699 wordsThere is no safety in unlimited hubris (McGeorge Bundy). The dictionary defines hubris as overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance. In The Odyssey, Homer embodies hubris into the characters Odysseus, the Suitors, and the Cyclopes. Odysseus shows hubris when he is battling the Cyclopes, the Cyclopes show hubris when dealing with Odysseus, and the Suitors show it when Odysseus confronts them at his home. To start, within the course of The Odyssey, Odysseus displays hubris through many of his ac...
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Women Play Three Years
1,011 wordsIn The Odyssey by Homer, there were many great women that had conflicting personalities and adverse motives, but also they were alike. With these oppositions they helped Odysseus to get back home to Ithaca, whether they wanted to or not. These women from the novel that have opposing qualities, yet help Odysseus get home and finish off the suitors, are Penelopeia and Clytemnestra, Circe and Calypso, and Eurycleia and Melantho. Clytemnestra is a disloyal wife and a cruel woman, while Penelopeia is...
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Act Ii Scene Act Iii Scene Ii
1,520 wordster> Compare and contrast Portia's three suitors, examining their characters Shakespeare highlights three of Portia's suitors, the Prince of Morocco, the Prince of Arragon and Bassanio. He does this to heighten dramatic tension, as these three men are the most important candidates to win Portia's hand in marriage. They reveal the contents of the three caskets and their different characters as exposed as being proud, vain and humble. They also emphasise the racial prejudices of Venice a...
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The Feminine Psyche In Odyssey
692 wordsThe Odyssey has much to teach us about the feminine psyche. The feminine psyche is the way that the female mind and soul react to and process situations. Females are generally faithful, giving, and respectful to their mates. We have an insight into the feminine psyche in several things that Penelope does. The weaving and unweaving of the shroud and the test of the bed are two examples of the way Penelope thinks. She does what is thought to be her duty to her husband to resist the suitors and rem...
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Merchant Of Venice Love At First Sight
953 wordsIn Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare brings two people together in love, Portia and Bassanio. Portia and Bassanio are alike by their love, their own friendship, and the caskets that brought them together. But when this ring parts from this finger, then parts life from hence: O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead! (II, ii). Bassanio and Portia are madly in love with each other, and you can tell by what they say. William Shakespeare proves this. Comparing Portia and Bassanio as lovers is ra...
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Character Development Good Example
1,543 wordsWhen one ponders the Greek mythology and literature, powerful images invariably come to mind. One relives the heroes's truffles against innumerable odds, their battles against magical monsters, and the gods' periodic intervention in mortal affairs. Yet, a common and often essential portion of a heroic epic is the hero's consultation with an oracle or divinity. This prophecy is usually critical to the plot line, and also to the well being of the main characters. Could Priam have survived in the A...
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Divine Intervention In Odyssey And Oedipus
1,601 wordsDivine Intervention in Odyssey and Oedipus When one ponders the Greek mythology and literature, powerful images invariably come to mind. One relives the heroes's truffles against innumerable odds, their battles against magical monsters, and the gods' periodic intervention in mortal affairs. Yet, a common and often essential portion of a heroic epic is the hero's consultation with an oracle or divinity. This prophecy is usually critical to the plot line, and also to the well being of the main cha...
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Good Or Evil Taming Of The Shrew
1,294 wordsExploring Sexuality in Taming of the Shrew Andrea Blacksten Shakespeare Plays Professor Christopher Human sexuality underlies many of the happenings of Taming of the Shrew. It affects the conflicts, theme, and resolution of the play. It becomes evident throughout the play that sexual behavior denotes whether a character is thought of as good or evil (not necessarily good evil as meant in conventional terms, but rather as a nice character versus a waspish or mean character). In the beginning of t...
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King And Queen Decision Making
2,029 wordsA Lesson The Odyssey, a Greek tale of fate written by Homer, tells the story of a warrior that is determined to return home and is willing to go to any extreme to achieve his goal. The story takes place over a period of approximately ten years and begins after much of the action has already occurred. The device of starting a work in the middle and returning to the start is called Ain medias res@ from the Latin (in the middle of things). Odysseus is faced with many challenges, but no matter what ...
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Honor Befitting One Epitaph Leader Of Men Eumaios
1,242 wordsThe Tale of Eumaios The ancient Greek society was a culture where the Fates and immortal gods hold reign over a mans life. Ones personal characteristics, including occupation, were as mutable as ones lineage. For this reason noble Eumaios, leader of men, the swineherd, stands out in the Odyssey as a character who exists above his place as a humble servant. He is conspicuous from his first appearance when Homer applies to him the epitaph leader of men (Od. 15: 23) and continues as Homer refers to...
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Make The Decision Carol Gilligan
2,986 wordsIn her essay Penelope as Moral Agent, Helene Foley attempts to discuss Penelope, a major character in Homers the Odyssey, in terms of Classical Athenian portrayals of women and, as her title suggests, in terms of what she calls a moral agent. In her introductory paragraph she lays out guidelines as set down by Aristotle and his contemporaries that constitute a moral agent: the character must make an ethical and moral decision on which the actions turns? without critical knowledge of the circumst...
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Plot Device Character Development
1,565 wordsWhen one ponders the Greek mythology and literature, powerful images invariably come to mind. One relives the heroes? struggles against innumerable odds, their battles against magical monsters, and the gods? periodic intervention in mortal affairs. Yet, a common and often essential portion of a heroic epic is the hero? s consultation with an oracle or divinity. This prophecy is usually critical to the plot line, and also to the well being of the main characters. Could Priam have survived in the ...
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Father And Son Trojan War
2,552 wordsIn The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs of this characteristic were represented by the sheer reverence towards the gods and the humanities the Greek society exhibited, and are both deeply rooted within the story. In the intricate and well-developed plot of The Odyssey, Homer h...
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Odysseus And His Men Trojan War
1,437 wordsPenelope, the wife of Odysseus, can be contrasted in various ways to the other characters in Homers poem The Odyssey. In many ways, Penelope embodies the ideal woman, in that she conforms to the values and ideals of her society. These ideals include faithfulness, loyalty, willpower, long-suffering, pride in ones home and family, and hospitality to strangers. The majority of the other characters in the poem lack one or more of these attributes. Although Odysseus proves to be a character of strong...
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Furious To Behead Caught The Knees Of Odysseus Phemios
792 wordsDuring the Odyssey, many singers are mentioned. They told stories of the past and the stories about the gods to entertain the household they were singing for. Singers were well respected because they had a divine gift from the Muses. Phemios and Demodokos are two examples of singers in the poem. Phemios was a singer in the house of Odysseus. While Odysseus was away in battle and his journey home, Phemios was made to sing at Odysseus s house by Penelope s suitors. A herald put the beautifully wro...
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