The Odyssey and The Pearl: Loyalty Loyalty to another person or to a cause may be an admirable trait‚ but it can lead to either positive or negative consequences. In Homer’s epic The Odyssey and John Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl there are characters that show great examples of this trait. Penelope in The Odyssey and Juana in The Pearl are the most obvious‚ although there are many. Penelope stayed loyal to Odysseus while he was on his twenty-year journey and Juana stayed by her husband through
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The Odyssey is mainly about men and their heroic triumphs and mighty deaths‚ which cast a shadow over the strong women. Most of the women are thought to be either motherly figures or romantic interests‚ but in truth‚ they are so much more‚ just like in present day society. Perhaps the most strong of all mortal characters is Penelope‚ the loyal wife of Odysseus. Although she is bombarded with suitors who stay at her house‚ she has managed to not give in. She has come up with multiple ways to stall
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During the next eighteen days‚ the Odyssey navigated through a dazzling array of nebulae as they left the Orion spur and entered the Perseus arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. In one area‚ in particular‚ the spirals of nebula clouds reminded Surina of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting. On another occasion‚ she saw an electrifying nebula cloud in the shape of a cat’s neon green eye staring at her from a distance. In fact‚ the serpentine arms of the nebula clouds stretched throughout interstellar
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Nevertheless‚ Siren has lots widely different images in numerous artistic works and stories. For example‚ Homer‚ ancient Greek author of Odyssey‚ portray Scylla as a sea monster who has dog likes voice and strange looks-twelve feet‚ six long necks and each with fearful head. She live on a side of narrow‚ and eat passers. As a sea monster‚ she is cruel and heartless. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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of Two Brothers demonstrated the ideas of what goes around comes around‚ and revenge is bittersweet. In an epic named The Odyssey by Homer‚ Odysseus is returning home from the Trojan War‚ yet his journey is prolonged as he faces numerous obstacles from the gods and struggles with his desire to pillage every town he encounters. The cultural values from A Tale of Two Brothers and The Odyssey are similar in how their lessons consist of anti-women and the importance of the relationship with the gods
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the Greeks and condemned by the Romans. However‚ I think that the sequence of movies matches up quite nicely with the sequence of poems. Comparing The Grand Illusion to the Iliad‚ Saving Private Ryan to the Aeneid‚ and Inglourious Basterds to the Odyssey brings out contrasts‚ like the definition of heroism‚ between
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Epic Heroes: From the Past and Today In the world today there are many people we view as heroes. Ordinary people‚ who stand out in the middle of a crowd‚ the kind of people we set out a day of the year as a national holiday in honor of them. Our heroes today are very similar to epic heroes in ancient epic poetry‚ they also are very different. In today’s society‚ Heroes have qualities that resemble epic heroes in Greek culture. Epic heroes have very lucid qualities that make them an epic hero
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Relying on Different Instincts In the book Night‚ Elie Wiesel utilizes similes and metaphors to prove that as people despite facing the most cruel dehumanization will continue to struggle to survive by relying on animalistic and mechanical instincts within themselves.. For example‚ as Holocaust prisoners were being shepherded from one camp to another in the Death March during the winter‚ Elie recounts “I was putting one foot in front of the other‚ like a machine. I was dragging this emancipated
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Nemesis Rosales March 10 2014 Physics Cosmos: A Space time Odyssey In my point of view‚ the episode Standing Up In The Milky Way was pretty interesting. The way Neil deGrasse described all the things science had discovered the past years of life. Scientist‚ astrophysicist‚ etc. say that science created the world and life. In my opinion I find that science did create many things in life‚ however‚ I am a child of two parents who strongly believe that God created life. In some cases I am in
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this is Odysseus from the Odyssey‚ who was created to face the fear that gods controlled mortals lives. Another example is Barry Allen aka the Flash from the current TV show the Flash. He faced destiny mainly in the third season with the idea of if future events are set in stone. The Flash has struggles with human fears in the same way that Odysseus shows how the Greeks struggled with free will. (Odysseus) Odysseus is the protagonist of the very well-known story the Odyssey. Which is about Odysseus’s
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