As Odysseus escapes the cyclops‚ he tricks him by getting him drunk and stabs Polyphemus with a wooden spear in the eye. Once the escape is complete‚ Odysseus yells back at Polyphemus telling him his name is Odysseus and he was the son of Laertes. "But I would not listen to them‚ and shouted out to him in my rage‚ ’Cyclops‚ if anyone asks you who it was that put your eye out and spoiled your beauty‚ say it was the valiant warrior Ulysses‚ son of Laertes‚ who lives in Ithaca.” This quote is stated
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A recent article appeared in the New York Review of Books. The article was by George Soros. George Soros pitched his idea about assimilating refugees in Europe. Clearly‚ Soros believes that the present system that welcomes refugees seeking asylum is flawed. He believes that the European refugee system needs an overhaul. The current system is not working due to the lack of adequate funds to help the system work properly‚ and smooth the transition of refugees into European countries. Basically‚ Soros
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich?. The initial interpretation of ?The Death of Ivan Ilyich? by Leo Tolstoy can be viewed as a lesson on the true meaning of life and how one should live. On further examination I have found that Tolstoy embedded a deeper religious meaning within the story. Unless the reader is familiar with biblical scriptures‚ Tolstoy?s approach will be lost within the contents of the sentences. Tolstoy contrasts the life and death of Christ with that of the character Ivan Ilyich. Even
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In the novel "The Metamorphosis‚" Franz Kafka uses the distortion of turning the main character into a "monstrous vermin" to highlight the already existing distortion that is his relationship with his family. The story starts off with Gregor waking up and finding himself changed from human form into a grotesque creature. One would surely expect this would evoke a mixture of powerful emotions‚ however‚ in Gregors case‚ it’s more of a casual inconvenience. "How about going to sleep for a few minutes
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The entire story of The Metamorphosis is filled with the concept of dehumanization. In a literal sense‚ when Gregor wakes up and realizes that he is turning into in cockroach‚ he is the definiton of being dehumanized‚ as he is literally no longer a human. When I first read the story‚ I thought that Gregor was literally a cockroach in the story. The more I read the story and the more research I did‚ I realized Kafka uses Gregor turning into a cockroach as a metaphor of technology taking over peoples
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in the place he called home. The author’s sense of alienation pervades “Tableaux
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In the opening paragraph‚ Gregor wakes up one day seemingly randomly after having worked as a travelling businessman for five years to support his family and finds that he transformed into a vermin (a roach or some kind of beetle) overnight. The setting takes place in the early 1900s‚ all going on during the international strive towards industrialization‚ but a distance from the internet and communications age of today. This allows the reader to understand the situation of the Samsa family members—that
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Described in the very beginning of the story‚ a reoccurring symbol in “The Metamorphosis” is the picture of the woman in furs‚ hanging in a gilt frame in Gregor’s room. The meaning of the picture is initially unclear‚ but as exemplified in lines 25 through 40 on page 1177‚ the picture becomes a beacon for Gregor‚ as a way to hold on to his former humanity. As Gregor’s mother and Grete clear out Gregor’s room to make it more suitable for his changed form‚ Gregor becomes agitated and anxious. He
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The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ Genesis 6-9 and Ovid’s Metamorphosis are three classics in which the gods are discontented with the actions and manners of men‚ and take extreme action in the form of a flood to rid the world of those that unworthy in their eyes‚ sparing only a select few. In all three of these stories‚ a flood is sent to wipe out humanity‚ sparing only a select few. The motivation of the gods for the floods is different‚ however. Through comparison of these motives‚ the moral fiber of divinity
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the years. The theme that is appearing is “the good life.” It appears specifically in two texts such as The Daodejing and The Death of Ivan Ilych. These two texts express in their writing about how it is better to live a good life without any excess of anything. These texts have a similarity‚ they wish to show the reader that it is better to live
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