Therefore when Athena is faced with a great challenge, she prevails and shows her perseverance.…
In ancient Greece, women were virtually invisible to those outside the home and their reputation was best when there was “the least possible talk about you among men, whether in praise or blame” (Thucydides 1.45.2). There was a Greek Proverb that said “a woman knew two great moments of her life: her marriage and her death” (Powell, 40). In ancient Greek culture, women were normally seen as objects for marriage and childbearing and in literature were often depicted with an uncontrollable sexual appetite causing them to lie and scheme. The Pandora myth affirms the gender dynamics of ancient Greek culture. This is shown by the way Hesiod describes Pandora, his attitude toward women, and his opinion about women’s roles and work.…
Clarisse the Prometheus saw the despair, the hollowness in his soul and give him the flame of a new hope. Even with the weight of their society crushing down on her, Clarisse wanted to make Guy understand that he could be happy with another out-looked on life. She was like the very first summer breeze and Montag a death tree that even when the spring came and when his life never flourish. He was death and she offers him her warmth.Yet this happiness came with a price as nothing in the world is free and as quickly as she the summer came and when , Clarisse…
Calypso was a woman who lived on the island of Ogygia. Odysseus was on a broken piece of the ship and floated onto her island. Calypso lived on the island with all ladies, who had never seen a man before. Calypso was attracted to Odysseus and held him captive on her island for quite some years. When Odysseus saw a ship, he ran and tried to swim away but Calypso and some other ladies swam after him and brought him back. Odysseus was only…
Esch looks to the women in Greek mythology for power and strength in her femininity and sexuality. These are things she is missing in her life. Esch has been sexually active since the age of 12, she is always looking for love in sex. “The pulpy ripe heart. The sticky heart the boys saw through my boyish frame, my dark skin, my plane face. The girly heart that, before Manny, I let boys have because they wanted it, and not because I wanted to give it. I 'd let boys have it because for a moment, I was Psyche or Eurydice or Daphne. I was beloved” (Ward 17). Although when it comes to Manny, Esch thinks she knows what she wants.” But with Manny, it was different; he was so beautiful, and still he chose me, again and again. He wanted my girl heart; I gave him both of them” (Ward 17). Ward has created a character so conflicted within herself. Esch is always looking to the goddesses for help in defining the way she is feeling. Aphrodite, goddess of romance and passion, known for her numerous affairs of the heart. Also known as the roman goddess Venus, Aphrodite had one gift and that was to make love. The Greek goddess Artemis was independent, choosing the wild beauty of the forest and mountains over marriage and parenthood. I see a little bit of Esch in both of these…
Minerva is a goddess in Roman history and literature. Most gods only have one thing to do, but this goddess has a lot on her mind. She's considered the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom and learning, commerce, crafts and arts, spinning and weaving, and inventor of music. That's one tough job, considering most gods only have one department. Mars is the god of war, Neptune the god of the sea, etc.…
Throughout Greek mythology Prometheus is known as the fire bearing Titan who rebelled against Zeus and saved the world from his curse of a heatless and lightless punishment. Like wise, Equality in Anthem also rebels against his government in response to seeing the corruption within it. These similarities show how their lives exemplify the ideal of individualism. Furthermore, Gaea, the goddess of earth, is comparable with The Golden One from Anthem; both would be seen as the beginning of a new race. In particular, Prometheus and Equality’s trails and experiences correlate to each other and elicit the motives behind their audacious actions. Ultimately, Ayn Rand changes the names of her characters to Prometheus and Gaea as their lives parallel the lives of Equality and the Golden One both with similar trials and sacrifices for the sake of mankind. Prometheus and Equality’s rebellion are similar. They both passionately desire prosperity for their human race and are willing to rebel against a higher power to achieve it. Initially, their rebellion against a higher power is quite similar: “The rebel Prometheus, who had taken such a personal risk for mankind, now was faced with getting the fire back down to earth.” (Pontikis; Prometheus; Mythology’s Original Rebel). Furthermore, Equality rebelled against the higher power that threatened his humanity: “ ‘You fools!’ we cried. ‘You fools!’ ‘You thrice-damned fools!’” (Rand, page 75). Here Equality calls the highest power, the Council of the Scholars, “Thrice-damned fools” because they reject his offering to humanity. Later, Equality vows to protect his chosen brothers and start a new rebellion race that would be based off individualism and loyalty. He wanted to create a new race of humans, a race that would be superior to the people that he grew up with. He would add things that would make them like gods relative to that of the past humans, such as individualism and…
So once again she opened a world unknown to the rest. She was just the passage between life and death, and all in between. She was just a little girl playing…
The first female in the Odyssey to be seen in full effect is the beautiful goddess. Although she is a supernatural being in all of the epic poem she is in a position to pity the mortals, which in turn puts in her a position to stay by Odyssey ' side to help him throughout his long journey back home. Athena is the most eminent example of this role; at the beginning of the book she is seen begging Odysseus to return back to his home. Athena after this point helps Odysseus throughout his entire journey back to Ithaca, his homeland, after twenty years of battling in Troy. Athena, goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice, and skill, is the propulsive force behind assembling Odysseus ' return home after becoming captured by Kalypso, daughter of Atlas. Athena helps Odysseus bribe Kalypso to release him and making sure Nausikaa, daughter of King Alkinoos, found him on the mainland of Skheria.…
Christian is the book’s main character and the hero too. He symbolizes all of the other Christians that are on their journey to find Christ. He wants to find religious truth and the Celestial City, which is heaven. Throughout the entire book, Christian goes on a treacherous journey to the Celestial City after he got an invitation to go there. He leaves his family and city behind in order to find the Celestial City. He faces various temptations and dangerous situations throughout his journey. With help from some companions he meets along the way to the City, and with his faith in God, Christian is able to defeat his enemies and temptations. That means that no matter what challenges someone faces in their life, God is always there for help. God will always be there in times of need. Despite people telling Christian not to go to the City, and that it does not exist, Christian keeps moving on. Finally, Christian and his friend that he met on the way the City, Hopeful, make it to the City. First, they face their final test as Christians. They have to cross the river in order to get to the City doors. They begin to cross the river, but the river gets deeper and rougher the farther out they go. Christian almost gave in and drowned, but Hopeful helped Christian. Hopeful told Christian that Christian’s faith has gotten him this far and it will also get him to the doors. Christians just has to keep strong in his faith. Christian listens to Hopeful. The stronger Christian’s faith is, the calmer the water gets. They both make it across the river safely. They make their way of to the doors of the Celestial City. Angels greet them when they get there. Hopeful and Christian make it into the City. This means that, when everything seems like it…
Nyx laid a golden egg, half of the egg was the sky and the earth which were called Uranus and Gaia. Uranus and Gaia had many children and their children had children. Their father feared of their great power and swallowed all his children, but Gaia saved one, Zeus. When he reached adulthood he started a war against his father, by winning the battle he saved the young generation. Zeus sent two of his sons, Prometheus and Epimetheus, to create man and animals with gifts. Prometheus failed his mission and was greatly punished while the other married a woman named Pandora. She was given a box by Zeus, but was not allowed to open it. She was happy, had great things come her way and thought the box would be one of them. Curiosity took over making her open the box, out flew the horrors which plague the world today, along with hope.…
The stories of the first women are very similar in Greek mythology and the Bible. In Mythology the first woman was created by the Father of Men and Gods and her name was Pandora, and “She was made from water and earth and blessed with many gifts” (Chaffey). She was brought out of the woods by Zeus and given a box which she was told…
Penelope is shown to be contsently in emotional termilol over odyessus throughout the Odyssey. For much of the book she is seen to be crying until a god take pity on her and allows her to fall asleep. But while Penelope is seen to be very leaky, she is also shown to be very rational, and very bounded to many things. One of this things is the funeral shroud that she uses to trick the suitors for three years by unraveling it at night. This was a very interseting part, because in some way it reence backs to Zues putting a viel on chaos and giving it form. Rather in this intsence the viel is a shroud, Penople is Zeus, and the chaos she is bounding is her solution to keep her husbands home without remarrying, or having to give it up, and to move back in with her parents. Penelope is and intersecting character because she mirrors Zeus first wife in many ways, such as tricking her suitors for three years, and by rational finding out that is Odysseus was the true Odysseus, and not and…
Pandora is Hesiod’s representation for a female, an attractive decoy, sexually alluring. Zeus wanted “to make a face such as goddesses have and the shape of a lovely maiden” (Hesiod 45). Hesiod also regarded women having strong feelings, “stinging desire and limb gnawing passion” (Hesiod 45) but with a selfish personality, “mind of a bitch and a thievish nature” (Hesiod 45).…
Pandora was created to punish mankind because Prometheus stole fire from mount Olympus to give to man as a special gift. Hephaestus made Pandora and each of the gods gave her a gift; (Aphrodite gave her beauty, Athena clothed her, etc.) most important, Hera, Zeus's wife, gave her the "gift" of curiosity. Hermes was to take Pandora down Mt. Olympus to Earth to present Pandora to Epimetheus as his new wife. Hermes gave Pandora a golden box (in some versions a vase) for a wedding present but warned her to never open it. Even though Prometheus warned Epimetheus to not accept any gifts from the gods, he did anyways. Pandora had the box on the table but her curiosity was driving her crazy so she hid the box in a room and locked the door. She was still tempted so she took the box outside, put it in a wooden chest and wrapped chains around it, dug a hole, buried it, and rolled a boulder on top of it. She woke up in the middle of the night, put on her robe, and walked outside. She touched the boulder and it rolled very easily out of the way. After she dug up the box, she was just going to open it just to take a peek at her present which ended up releasing all of the evil know to the world today. She closed the box in time to keep in hopelessness (other versions say different things she kept in/ let out).…