Farhood Bahadori Classical Mythology Professor Sina Jafari 5 July 2012 Guidelines for the Comparative analysis of the movie "Troy" and "The Iliad" Your comparative essay should be typed in single space paragraphing (font 12 Times New Roman) and it should be at least 500 words. (I will use the "word count" feature in Microsoft Word to check the number of words.) Try not to exceed 1000 words at most. Your essay should be the result of your own contemplations‚ observations and conclusions. You
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Not many people can understand the circumstances or the thoughts of the people involved in the “tragedies’ or the “fantasy”. Troy‚ Cory‚ and Rose express the deepest problems or “fences” throughout the most of the scenes. The emotion given off often is heartbreaking as two sons try so desperately to get their father to approve and accept them. In the play it seems Lyons‚ Troy‚ and Cory all have their own types of “fences” isolating themselves away from what they wish to achieve. “Fences” usually involves
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Eric Bana as Hector - Prince of Troy and the best warrior among the Trojans. Eldest son of Priam‚ brother of Paris and husband of Andromache. Orlando Bloom as Paris - Prince of Troy. Youngest son of Priam‚ brother of Hector and lover of Helen. Peter O’Toole as Priam - King of Troy and father of Hector and Paris. Rose Byrne as Briseis - Priestess of Apollo and cousin of Hector and Paris. Lover of Achilles. Saffron Burrows as Andromache - Princess of Troy and wife of Hector. James Cosmo
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dignity. Troy Maxson’s downfall was caused by his response to the challenge that racism posed to his personal dignity. Although Troy was able to knock a baseball out of the park like it was nothing‚ he constantly "missed the mark" in his personal life. Troy had a tragic flaw‚ which was that he did whatever he thought was right without thinking of the consequences. In an attempt to respond to the indignities he suffers‚ he distorts history‚ denies facts‚ and lies. The circumstances that shaped Troy to the
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When Harry Met Sally SzuHan Jen Sociology 1 Professor Randolph Pratt Section 42207 May 24‚ 2014 When Harry met Sally When Harry met Sally is a romantic comedy which look into different point of view from men and women. The film starts with Harry and Sally traveling to New York together from Chicago 19777. They talks about how men and women can ever just be “friend”‚ and Harry and Sally had totally different thoughts about it. Harry thinks men and women can never be just “friend” because
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Sophocles fit all of qualifications. Oedipus is a tragic hero since his particular characteristic is king. In another play “Fences” by August Wilson‚ the main character Troy Maxson‚ is different with Oedipus. He is not a tragic hero of Aristotle’s concept‚ but he is a modern tragic. Oedipus was definitely a tragic hero‚ but Troy is not matching it. Following the Aristotle’s definition of tragic hero: “Aristotle observes that the protagonist‚ the hero or chief character of a tragedy‚ is a person
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events‚ but he kept this clip very similar to the plot of the rest of the movie. Another aspect that is interesting in this segment was when Miss Trunchbull threw the little girl. This scene was taken in one shot‚ which means that the single length of film was continuously by one camera. Mise-en-scene was definitely a factor in this one scene from like the costume used and the staging of the fence with the garden of flowers. The uses of these techniques give the viewers different feelings based on these
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CHARACTERS MORTALS: AGAMEMNON The leader of the Achaean expedition to Troy‚ he was the King of Mycenae. On his return from Troy he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra‚ and her lover Aegisthus. The lover was the son of Thyestes‚ the brother and enemy of Atreus‚ Agamemnon’s father. When Odysseus voyages to Hades he meets with Agamemnon’s ghost. ALCINOUS The King of the Phaeacians and husband of Arete‚ who had a daughter called Nausicaa. Nausicaa helps Odysseus when he first arrives in their
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Troy was considered a mythical city until archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the remains of the city in 1871. Archeological digs have brought up many truths about the history of Troy‚ and about the Trojan War‚ which supposedly occurred around 1250 B.C. The war is the subject of the epic poem‚ The Iliad by Homer‚ however‚ there are several theories regarding the existence of Troy and the events of the Trojan War. In 1871‚ Heinrich Schliemann‚ with the aid of geographical clues mentioned
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