spoken at the beginning of the play by the Pythia‚ the priestess of Apollo. She has entered into Apollo’s temple to find the Furies and Orestes there‚ and she stumbles back out in terror. She speaks of Orestes‚ saying: “’he holds the seat where suppliants sit for purging; his hands dripping blood‚ and his sword just drawn‚ and he holds a branch (it must have topped an olive) wreathed with a fine tuft of wool‚ all piety‚ fleece gleaming white.’” (E 43-47) The Pythia merely describes Orestes
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Penelope‚ Loyal Wife of Lord Odysseus While Penelope is not the principal character in Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus’ perception of her is optimal. The relationship between them is not based on loyalty‚ we‚ the audience‚ have the privilege to understand his genuine feelings towards her. Throughout Odysseus’ journey‚ Homer assures us that he loves Penelope regardless of the fact that he has his episodes of infidelity. Homer also insinuates that Odysseus‚ although maybe not immediately‚ acknowledges
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In the Epic poem Paradise Lost‚ Milton develops Satans character to be a hero. This is the opposite of what most of us have learned growing up‚ it may be a hard pill to swallow‚ finding that you are feeling empathy for the protagonish. Although Satan is the protagonist‚ he is a hero because Milton shows us he is relatable‚ displays sympathy and a sense of leadership. He is relatable through his experience after being cast down from heaven. Satan has showed examples of Sympathy through out the movie
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AP List of Useful Words Objectives: This list is designed to give you a good set of tools for both writing and test-taking. The manipulation activity that we will perform with this list will aid you in both your writing‚ as well as aiding your depth of understanding of the AP test itself. List courtesy of : http://www.mshogue.com/AP/vocab%20list%2006_07.pdf First semester—You are responsible for defining 20 words a week. In addition‚ you are also responsible for appropriate use of the word
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Monologue- an Athenian Man Fed up of the dark‚ tossing sea I was keen to lay down our spoils at the foot of Apollo in dedication‚ already planning the arrangements of invitations‚ wine and Hetari for the feast I would give out in celebration of my homecoming. Wearied by the hills of Cerata‚ wetted with blood- a righteous token of the brute treachery of our Megarian allies‚ our trireme Aianteia‚ was pulled with steady shoulders‚ the eretai crying “rhup-pa-pai” as‚ skirting the moles‚ we made for
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After Reading Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 (though written nearly ten years earlier) in ten books‚ with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674‚ redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil’s Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; most of the poem was written while Milton
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is questioned as she has an ulterior motive – to find sanctuary ‘My husband’s the most evil man alive’ ‘It is the end of everything!’ Manipulative‚ trying to appeal to Aegeus‚ yet realistic as she realises her needs ‘I touch your beard as a suppliant‚ embrace your knees’ – beseeching to him Creon Medea’s cleverness which is achieved through two aspects: the manner in which Medea talks to Creon to gain what she wants‚ and how Creon continuously talks about how clever she
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generally received fewer legal rights and opportunities than men. Many women still hold the traditional roles of wife and mother. Still in many cultures‚ women continue to face struggles prohibiting them from living up to their full potential. The Suppliant Women‚ the first extant play in Western European Literature‚ inspired Charles Mee to write the story of Big Love. Mee introduces many social issues into his modernized version of the thousand year old drama. In the play‚ Big Love‚ fifty sisters prepare
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spelling is "learned"] and followed nonetheless. Losing weight is one thing people crave and will go to many lengths to achieve. The benefits of losing weight when exercising and using diet pills are with diet pills they are considered a nutritional suppliants. They don’t need to be approved by the FDA before they are sold on the shelves in the store. Losing weigh without changing your diet or exercising is basically impossible. With diet pills and exercises it can speed up the process. Cons of using
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Endurance Of The Human Spirit The Iliad and the movie Precious‚ based on the novel Push by Saphire‚ both share a common theme where the main characters depict an uncommon endurance of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Although in The Iliad‚ war is horrible and bloody‚ the spirit of Achilles is never broken by this adversity because‚ like Precious‚ who suffers physical‚ mental‚ and sexual abuse at the hands of her parents‚ their human spirit is the driving force behind their desire to overcome
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