Prometheus and Gaea: Ayn Rand’s Choice of Characters Throughout Greek mythology Prometheus is known as the fire bearing Titan who rebelled against Zeus and saved the world from his curse of a heatless and lightless punishment. Like wise‚ Equality in Anthem also rebels against his government in response to seeing the corruption within it. These similarities show how their lives exemplify the ideal of individualism. Furthermore‚ Gaea‚ the goddess of earth‚ is comparable with The Golden One from
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I wish to free my fellow sisters. I wish to bring them to this new society Prometheus and I have created. He has already made a trip from here to our old society‚ bringing Union 5-3992 and International 4-8818 back with him. As the days went on‚ all of us have worked together to improve as much as possible. I have witnessed the relief in their eyes as they were brought into this society‚ the freedom and individualism they never had. I wish for my own sisters to experience this too. I wanted for them
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The significance of the Albatross in "The Ancient Mariner" has been left open to examination by the reader. The symbolism of the Albatross in Coleridge’s poem is rather debatable. By looking at different interpretations‚ I will investigate whether Coleridge’s Albatross is significant or not. The ancient mariner represents Coleridge himself and the albatross represents the fight with himself to overcome his personal guilt. The mariner’s sufferings are an expression of Coleridge’s strong addiction
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Like other works of the Classical Age‚ Prometheus Bound doesn’t begin in the beginning but leaps in medias res ("into the middle of things")‚ just as Prometheus‚ a defiant demigod‚ is brought in chains to be fettered to a desolate mountain crag. For the modern reader - as opposed to an Aeschylian audience‚ who would have already been familiar with the plot - a bit of background is in order. Prometheus was a god from the old order‚ the Titans‚ who had now all been overthrown by a group of young
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“My father’s name is Prometheus and my mother is Gaea.” she began to suspect that our intentions were bad and began to look at the ground and not at us. “How does their father look like?” Our questions needed to be answered in order to know for sure if this Prometheus was the same person as Equality 7-2521. “H-he has b-brown hair and skin like mine-” her voice was cut off by the voice of the
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THE MODERN PROMETHEUS IMPORTANT REFERENCES Paradise Lost Did I request thee‚ Maker‚ from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Lines from John Milton ’s Paradise Lost From the title page of Frankenstein; or‚ The Modern Prometheuse‚ 1818 In Frankenstein‚ the intelligent and sensitive monster created by Victor Frankenstein reads a copy of Milton ’s Paradise Lost‚ which profoundly stirs his emotions. The monster compares his situation to that of Adam
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India Unbound charts‚ from a politico-economic perspective‚ the story of India as a nation from the pre independence era of 1942 to the post reform period‚ circa Year 2000. The author has for the most part narrated the story in the first person‚ interspersing his account with facts and figures. One thing that is abundantly clear about the book is that economy is at the forefront of the author’s mind. So‚ while numerous accounts of the political developments are available for both pre- and post- independence
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How is the plight of women in Middle Eastern societies portrayed in “From Sleep Unbound” and “Osama”? Women in Middle Eastern societies have a history of suffering and hardship. Their society dictates them to be inferior to men in almost all ways‚ and they can be seen as prisoners‚ since they are trapped behind a wall of servitude to the men. Both Samya’s and Osama’s difficulties show frightening similarities in how they develop throughout both the film and the novel. Marriage plays a gargantuan
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In this essay I will compare and contrast two ancient three-dimensional sculptures. The first is The Laocoon Group; it is a masterpiece of the Hellenistic Age in Greece. This sculpture dates back to the 1st Century BC. This sculpture now resides in the Vatican in Rome. The second sculpture is Augustus of Primaporta‚ a life-size Roman sculpture from the Pax Roman time period‚ circa 20 b.c.e. The artist of both sculptures are unknown. Both sculptures contain concepts of life and power. Both sculptures
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Ancient Greece and Ancient China have many similarities and differences. A similarity between the two ancient civilizations is how they socially treated their women‚ while a difference is how their economy was handled due to the different trade systems. Another difference between the two societies was the way they ran their political systems. The ancient Greeks and ancient Chinese were similar due to the lack of respect they had for their women. The Greeks and Chinese both gave little or no rights
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