The Odyssey is the epic story of a warrior named Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War and being held captive by Calypso‚ a passionate nymph‚ for seven years. The epic recounts the many encounters and adventurous endeavors Odysseus and his men are involved in during the long return to Ithaca. During his odyssey‚ many laudable adversaries‚ primarily in the form of temptations‚ karmic justice and arrogance‚ that confront him and his hubristic‚ fatuous men. Earlier in the story
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Connected text Study For my connected text study I have chosen to compare and contrast Cinderella and Cinderella story. There are many versions Of Cinderella and the one I have chosen seems to be the most common‚ it has been edited by Andrew Lang and published by David McKay 1948. "Cinderella" is a classic story‚ told and retold for generations. There are variations of the story in nearly every culture‚ and many modern adaptations. One of the most recent and spotlighted offspring of "Cinderella"
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the Odyssey A familiar theme in many Greek classics is divine intervention. In the great epics of this time period‚ the gods would play an immense role in the lives and fates of mortals. In The Odyssey‚ written by Homer‚ Athena particularly favors Odysseus‚ great kind of Ithaka‚ and his family. Throughout Odysseus’ struggles and times of need‚ the goddess acts like a guardian angel and takes an essential and irreplaceable part in the story. Athena moves the story of The Odyssey along
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female characters in The Odyssey‚ for example; Penelope‚ Circe‚ and Calypso‚ we are able to understand that back then women were inferior to men yet they had power in that they were able to draw men in so quickly and easily (for example sirens‚ they sing so beautifully that men get drawn in from lust for these things with such beautifull voices‚ but the sirens are killers and they kill any man on a ship that passes)‚ also they are portrayed as being very wise in The Odyssey‚ Athena’s appositive most
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material possessions. A quote from the poem to model this is‚ "...I blest His name that gave and took‚ That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea‚ so it was‚ and so ’twas just. It was His own‚ it was not mine..." The basic gist of the poem is a puritan ’s house catches fire and burns to the ground. From the quote you can see that even in the most dangerous and traumatic events‚ Puritans still were very faithful. Bradstreet also states material possessions are all properties of God and are irrelevant in
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Ophelia just tells him. The only real issue with the movie is the absence of Fortinbras. He is a pretty important character‚ but I believe his part was cut from the film because his part is not a very necessary part in the play‚ and one can still understand the whole of the story without Fortinbras. But in the play‚ the ghost of Hamlet ’s father appears dressed in armor‚ as if ready for battle‚ and Horatio says it must be a sign about their preparation for war. The whole element of war in the play is
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In The Odyssey‚ by Homer‚ three cultural values that are expressed throughout the epic are‚ no one should make the gods angry‚ everybody wants to be known as a hero‚ and killing is necessary at certain times (TS). One cultural value that Homer expressed in The Odyssey is‚ no one should make the gods angry(SI1). In “The Cyclops”‚ Odysseus blinded Poseidon’s son‚ Polyphemus‚ which made Poseidon very angry and he caused storms that made sailing very difficult(E1). Making Poseidon angry put a sort of
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media tycoons to be the first producers of a film with the latest technology. With the advance and formation of newer equipment‚ stories have been reformatted to include the more novel‚ astounding special effects. With the movie Frankenstein itself; when it first came out in 1910‚ it was a mute‚ black-and-white phenomenon. 21 years later‚ voice technology was the reason for Frankenstein to resurface. Yet again‚ in 1994‚ once high-quality colour films and famous actors could be used‚ the movie was
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The Importance of Greek Mythology and Homer’s Epic Poems By: Ashley Allen “Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks‚ concerning their gods and heroes‚ the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars referred to the myths and studied them in an attempt to shed light on the religious and political institutions of ancient Greece and‚ in general‚ on the ancient Greek civilization.” (citation) Mythical narration played a very large‚ and
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Odysseus has been away at war for twenty years and appeared to be in no rush to return home. While he loves his wife very much‚ the love did not stop him from having affairs with two goddesses. On the other hand‚ Forrest Gump who absolutely adored Jenny‚ long before they said I do‚ managed to stay true to his Jenny although they were separated for years at a time before getting married. Throughout all of his ventures‚ he constantly thought of Jenny. In the course of Forrest’s entire voyage he never
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