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    hero knows‚ his shield and spear the only instruments for achieving all aims. A hero is driven through suffering to earn the honor and glory of immortal status within a community from which he is inevitably detached. At the beginning of Homer’s The Iliad‚ Achilles embodies the “ideal” hero in his past accomplishments and renowned fame as the greatest of all Achaeans. What Achilles yet lacks‚ and what he struggles with throughout the epic‚ is the balance of wisdom to compliment his unmatched skills

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    The Iliad Script

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    by the way‚ in the late Bronze Age‚ throughout time‚ man has waged war. Some for power‚ some for glory ‚ some for honor and some for love … war has also noble reasons other than greed and foolish pride. And were here to present some highlights of Iliad‚ one of the greatest epic story‚ written by homer. Scene 2 : Helen and Paris Helen: ( she will stop brushing her hair in front of the mirror when she see Paris) Paris …. Paris: (he will continue to stare at her) You’re still beautiful and fairer Helen

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    Achilles In The Iliad

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    In Homer’s poem‚ The Iliad‚ the demi-god protagonist‚ Achilles‚ displays immense wrath against his fellow Achaian countrymen. Despite being angry at only Agamemnon‚ the army’s commander‚ moments beforehand‚ Achilles ultimately turns his resentment against all the Greek army and demands divine intervention against the Achaian troops. Initially‚ Agamemnon and his followers stripped away what was rightfully his‚ similarly to how Achilles’ believes his divine fate was taken by being born to a mortal

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    Dream Deferred”) by Langston Hughes has many similes and instances of personification. The poem’s first simile is a question about what happens to a dream that is put on hold: “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun”. This comparison suggest that just as a raisin loses its physical substance‚ so too does a dream deferred lose its meaning. The “dream” that Hughes probably has in mind here is for African Americans gaining equal rights. The poem’s third simile occurs in lines 5 and 6:“Does it stink like

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    Fate In The Iliad

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    In Homer’s epic The Iliad‚ Homer tells of Achilles‚ a prideful warrior‚ and his forays in a long and gruelling war between the Trojans and Greeks. In the epic‚ mortals and gods contend for victory‚ exercising free will and battling fate. Soldiers‚ demigods‚ and even the gods themselves view fate as inevitable or dangerous to modify. The soldiers in the war view fate as unavoidable destiny. When Hector makes the final stab and kills Patroclus‚ Patroclus prophesies‚ “This day / your death stands

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    Aeneas and Mezentius Book ten of The Aeneid incorporates varied similes on the heroic figures of Aeneas and Mezentius. These similes further illustrate to its audience the character and nature of Aeneas and Mezentius. Lines 778 to 783 offers an epic simile of Aeneas‚ “Just as Aegaeon‚ who had a hundred arms and hands-they say-and fire burning from his fifty mouths and chests‚ when he clanged at Jove’s thunderbolts with his fifty shields‚ each one just like the other‚ and drew as many

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    Deformity In The Iliad

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    Physical unattractiveness‚ deformity‚ and disfigurement have been associated with evil since antiquity. In the Iliad‚ Homer described the wicked Thersites as possessing thin hair over a "misshapen head‚" with one blinking eye and a lame leg. Physiognomy (the "science" of reading personality characteristics into facial features) traces its practice to Homer’s Greece. When Socrates was convicted for heresy and the corruption of youth in the fifth century B.C.‚ a physiognomist charged that his face

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    Honor In The Iliad

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    definition has also changed over time‚ people acting in the name of honor have changed this world’s path‚ either for the better or the worse. To begin‚ honor’s definition and traditions have drastically changed over the course of history. In the Iliad by Homer‚ an epic poem written in 800 - 725 B.C.‚ Hector rebukes his brother Paris because of a lack of honor‚”Paris‚ you handsome‚ woman-mad

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    Similes In Still I Rise

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    In “Still I Rise‚” Maya Angelou uses similes to delineate how no matter what oppression she faces regarding her ethnicity or gender‚ she will rise. Maya Angelou was born in 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri. Her mother and father divorced when she was very young‚ which forced her and her brother to go live with her grandmother in Stamps‚ Arkansas. She saw firsthand racial discrimination being in Arkansas. At the age of 7‚ while visiting her mother‚ she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Seeking revenge

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    Troy vs Iliad

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    Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen was inspired by The Iliad‚ an ancient Greek poem about the time of warrior Achilles argument with King Agamemnon during the Trojan War. Some events the film where taken straight from the Iliad‚ and is at times the two stories are very similar to one another. However there are several major differences between them‚ as Troy the movie was made to appealing to twenty first century audiences‚ where as the Iliad was meant to appeal to Greeks in the eighth century BC

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