Promises and Promise Breaking Add Another Dimension to Written Pieces Alexander Crisp Brianna Wells March 13‚ 2013 English 121 People can give out empty promises in order to get what they want‚ sometimes it works and the results are catastrophic‚ but there are situations where the empty promise is seen right through. Christopher Marlowe’s works both “Dido‚ Queen of Carthage” and “The Passionate Shepard to His Love” along with Walter Ralegh’s poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard” display such
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Soggy Bottom Boys vs. Epic Hero: Epic Themes In O Brother Where Art Thou and Homer’s Odyssey the use of epic themes did not always parallel one another. The personality of the characters in the movie greatly affected whether the Greek’s upstanding views portrayed in the themes‚ such as loyalty‚ differed from the epic poem. In a comparable sense‚ the plots influenced whether the themes‚ like the homecoming‚ were similar in the movie and poem. However‚ the movie is by no means directly based upon
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Virgil: possible test questions 1. Bk I: 1-11 Invocation to the Muse I sing of arms and the man‚ he who‚ exiled by fate‚ first came from the coast of Troy to Italy‚ and to Lavinian shores – hurled about endlessly by land and sea‚ by the will of the gods‚ by cruel Juno’s remorseless anger‚ long suffering also in war‚ until he founded a city and brought his gods to Latium: from that the Latin people came‚ the lords of Alba Longa‚ the walls of noble Rome. Muse‚ tell me the cause: how was she offended
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33. When Aeneas was shipwrecked in Carthage‚ they went to the queen to seek help. Cupid knew that he could make the queen fall in love with Aeneas‚ so that Aeneas’s descendants would rule a vast empire in the new land. Dido‚ the Queen of Carthage‚ welcomed him and his company and treated them to a banquet‚ because she knew how it felt to be homeless and lost in a foreign city. With help from Cupid‚ Dido fell in love with Aeneas during the banquet. Dido gave Aeneas many lavish gifts and only asked
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of ways‚ and some choose to ignore it altogether. All pain does have something in common though; reactions to it involve irrational behavior‚ whether it is just thinking in unreasonable ways‚ or actually doing something nonsensical. In Virgil’s The Aeneid‚ he takes us through the Queen Dido’s life and up to the end of her existence. From the negative effects of being madly in love to the infectious disease that many call rumor‚ he explains several important lessons using Dido’s life.
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Publius Vergilus Maro (Octocber 15‚ 70 B.C- September 21‚ 19 B.C)‚ called Vergil‚ is known as the Rome’s greatest poet and the father of many famous nation epics. His work has a wide and deep influence on Western literature. One of the best inspirational masterpieces of Vergil is “The Aeneild”‚ with the main character is Aeneas‚ a hero Trojans. “The Aeneild” is considered as a splendid seminal epic from ancient Rome to the present. Throughout “The Aeneild”‚ Vergil successfully describes many different
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A siren; part woman‚ part bird; a mythical creature who is one of many sea nymphs. Sirens can be portrayed differently as each author/artist creates a new profile for them in each of their pieces of art. Tone is created in the actions of the sirens in many different works like The Odyssey‚ by Homer‚ Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song‚” and John William Waterhouse’s Ulysses and The Sirens. Some could be similar to others or they could differ. The sirens in the epic poem‚ The Odyssey; Margaret Atwood’s
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Comparing and Contrasting the Odyssey to O’ Brother Where Art Thou The Odyssey and O’ Brother Where Art Thou have many similarities and differences. The poem and the movie have different settings and time periods. The movie is more of a comedy‚ and the poem is more of a dramatic story of an epic hero on a long journey. The poem and movie have the same main stories‚ but some of the details are changed. The Odyssey and O’ Brother Where Art Thou compare and contrast because of the storylines
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Aeneas’s main duty is to serve the gods by founding the Roman race. “As the sharp admonition and command from heaven had shaken him awake‚ he now burned only to be gone‚ to leave that land of the sweet life behind” (Fitzgerald‚ 105). This line shows how Aeneas yearns to leave the life he has in Carthage after the gods have told him to go to Italy. He leaves for Italy‚ as the gods told him to‚ against his will for he said‚ “So please‚ no more of these appeals that set us both afire. I sail for
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What were some interesting points that you got from the videos? I enjoyed watching the videos‚ and the ones that stood out to me were the After Religion‚ Astrophysics and Religion‚ What is Art for?‚ What is Literature for?‚ What is Philosophy for?‚ What is History for?‚ and The Value of Forgotten Ideas. I found it very interesting that in the After Religion video‚ the message was to show that the real challenge with religion is to learn from it so that we can live fulfilled lives by replacing the
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