Carter Morgan English 2 Jealousy Shakespeare’s Othello portrays the effect of emotions. Throughout the play love and jealousy are the most prominent emotions. The characters’ emotions lead them into making the decisions that make this play a tragedy. Although some may argue love is the most important emotion in Othello‚ nevertheless jealousy truly is because it makes Othello and Iago make awful decisions. On one hand‚ some people might say love is the most important emotion in Othello because Iago’s
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Euripides and Aristophanes‚ two authors who attempted to write about the female experience in Greek society. Euripides was a Greek dramatist who wrote his play Medea‚ from the perspective of a woman who is miserable in her subordinate role in life. While Aristophanes was an Athenian comic playwright‚ who wrote Lysistrata‚ from his own perspective of the women’s revolt during the Peloponnesian War. Both authors paint an interesting picture of how women were viewed during this time‚ with many similarities
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sure the new students have someone they can come to when they are lost‚ and or feel left out. ASB helped me‚ when I first came into the school‚ so I want to return the favor‚ by learning to be a good leader and being more useful for the students at Medea Creek. By joining ASB‚ I want to become a part of something bigger than myself. Planning activities‚ helping new students and participating in new and different events are some of the things about ASB‚ that appeal to me. ASB‚ helps students so that
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needed to address essay question #4: Choice 1: (a) Othello Choice 2: (a) The Epic of Gilgamesh (b) Old Testament: Genesis (c) Medea Choice 3: (a) The Canterbury Tales (b) Metamorphose 1. Consider the concept of “wild person” in context with Enkidu in the “Epic of Gilgamesh”. Now think about the concept of “foreigner” or “outsider” as they are relate to characters in Medea and Othello. For this essay question you will define the term “barbarian” in context with those readings‚ connect it to a theme
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I am Medea and Jason is the one who is guilty. When I was not living in Greece‚ before I was brought here to this horrible lively place‚ I was happy. When I lived in Colchis with my real family‚ I was honored‚ I was valued‚ I was a princess. Here I am looked down upon‚ gossiped about‚ and unappreciated. When Jason came searching to take the golden fleece from my father‚ I was struck by his beauty. I fell deeply in love and I could not surface from my longing to appease him. Because of this yearning
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Percy Jackson was a demigod. Half god half human. His mother was Sally Jackson‚ a mortal; and his father? He was none other than Poseidon‚ ruler of the sea. But there is something that confuses some of us. Percy’s full name is Perseus‚ but Perseus is the name of a son of Zeus. So why exactly did Sally Jackson name Percy after Perseus? Wouldn’t Theseus have been a more appropriate name? Well‚ looking closely at the two heroes’ fates‚ we can figure out why. King Acrisius of Argos found out that
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from Medea ’s Greek Lair) In the time of Greek Gods and Goddesses‚ there was a ten-year war called the Titanomachy. In addition‚ to win the war‚ the Cyclops gave the three brothers special weapons (www.helium.com). Hades was given the Helmet of Darkness; therefore‚ allowing him to become invisible. This invisibility allowed him to sneak on to enemy territory‚ which is a nifty ability. After winning the war against the Titans‚ the brothers
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king of Colchis to remove the Golden Fleece from the grove in which it hung‚ the king was clearly unwilling. So the goddess Hera‚ who sponsored Jason’s quest‚ asked Aphrodite to intervene. The love goddess made the king’s daughter Medea fall in love with Jason‚ and Medea proved instrumental in Jason’s
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Drama 88 Day 4 How does Thucydides’ representation of the Athenians compare with the representation of the Athenians on the Parthenon Frieze? Thucydides describes the Athens as being superior to the other states while the Parthenon Frieze describes them as a whole and united and the figures they respected. Thucydides mainly talks about the warriors and the men of Athens while the Parthenon Frieze depicts people of all status. Thucydides makes the Athens seem arrogant and has the Athens believe that
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the island with a child. Prospero had Ariel carry out his commands and punished Caliban in the same way that Sycorax punished Ariel for not doing her bidding. Sycorax’s dark magic is reminiscent of Medea but Prospero’s speech in Act V parallels Medea’s speech in Metamorphoses. By comparing himself to Medea‚ he implicates a similarity between himself and Sycorax. The play‚ as told from a colonial viewpoint suggests we are meant to accept Prospero as the innocent protagonist who has been evicted from
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