Lancelot And Odysseus
.... of their actions on their lives.
Although Lancelot and Odysseus lived in completely different and
somewhat opposing time periods, their heroic and "larger than life"
personalities share some quite distinguishing characteristics. I say that their
time periods were somewhat opposing because the views of the culture regarding
the afterlife and any supernatural occurrence represent the conflict present
between monotheism and polytheism. One mutual characteristic of Lancelot and
Odysseus is their physical p .....
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2001: A Metaphorical Odyssey
.... He sees problems, analyzes them, and then proceeds to
diffuse the cause in the most efficient manner possible. He uses his character
traits of intelligence, persistence, and adroitness to overcome the dilemmas put
in front of him. By using his intelligence, he realizes that HAL has figured
him out, and he must find a way to get back into the discovery in order to
survive. In using persistence, Bowman does not give up when it seems that HAL
has won the battle. Instead he takes the rough way in, and he .....
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Flawless Heroes?
.... of heroes as Mr. Gibbon suggests, but
every person is going to have some skeletons in their closet, hero or no hero.
To ask society to ignore the facts just so young people can feel that these
people are perfectly squeaky clean is wrong. Society cannot lie to them. There
is some value to teaching reality even though Mr. Gibbon doesn't seem to think
so.
Mr. Gibbon mentions that there is some sort of "tradition of exemplary
lives" in society's heroes that used to exist but no longer does. However the .....
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The Similarities Between Creon And Antigone
.... except his own. When his son Haimon comes to
talk with him he refuses to listen , claiming that Haimon is "girlst
ruck!" and corrupted . Teirsesais comes and tells him a morbid prophecy.
Creon will not listen to this either. He claims that Teirsesais has been
corrupted by money, like many prophets at that time. He finally listens to
the Charagous when reminded th at Teiresias has never been wrong. Antigone
has no problem working by her self either. She demonstrates this when she
slipped by all the guards .....
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The Theme Of Father/Son Relationships In Beowulf & The Song Of Roland
.... loses his life while serving his King. The
significance of these inter-generational relationships will be looked at in this
paper, as well as what the authors through the guise of these father-son
relationships were trying to say about various different aspects of life during
their time.
In Beowulf, the function of the relationship between Hrothgar and
Beowulf helps to further the plot in several ways. Whenever there is a reliance
on family in any literary work, it gives any story more meaning an .....
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Beowulf
.... the doubt and fear, instilled in the people
by Grendel, that the people of Herot regressed back to their old gods. The use
of the word "heathen" shows that the soldiers were already Christian and
reverted back to their old ways.
Soon after this statement, the poem reads:
Beware, those who are thrust into danger,
Clutched at by trouble, yet can carry no solace
In their hearts, cannot hope to be better! Hail
To those who will rise to God, drop off
Their dead bodies and seek our Father's peace .....
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
.... the second hunt, they found a boar and trapped it on a mountain.
The boar attacked and fought back aggressively. Bercilak faced it one on one
and killed it. In Gawain's bedroom, Bercilak's wife made another pass at him.
This time she was more aggressive. The hunters used the same tactic on the boar
as Bercilak's wife used on Gawain. She tried to wear him down, but it had no
used because Gawain still put out. She gave him two kisses before she left his
room.
For the third hunt Bercilak tracked a f .....
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Odysseus: Heroes
.... news paper in the
country.
Odysseus is a brave man that did great things. In The Odyssey he
conquers a monster using smarts and strength. He also looks out for his crew
mates. He is faithful to his wife, well, in his mind he is. He kills many men
on his own in a battle at his home. He cries a couple of times in the story,
showing sensitivity. Overall, Odysseus is a brave and caring human that is a
little too conceited He is also very smart, like in the book when Odysseus said,
"He thought he'd .....
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King Arthur
.... the Anglo-Saxons after the
Roman withdrawal were clear evidence that god was punishing them for their sins.”
It was during these disasters that the monk was referring to that Arthur held
up resistance for the Britons against the Saxons, at a time when Britain was
constantly being threatened by invaders. Through being the commander who routed
the battles against the enemy and thereby saving the south of Britain from
distruction of the Saxons, “Arthur became the image of the hero and savior whose
death p .....
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The Odyssey
.... Penelope was actually really ragged. Athene also helped Penelope by
giving her a dream of gulls, representing the suitors, and an eagle,
representing Odysseus, killing the gulls.
Athene helped Odysseus numerous ways as well. She helped by persuading
the gods to free Odysseus from Calypso. Athene even helped Odysseus by telling
Naussicaa to do her laundry at the beach and telling her to help the man she
meets. So when Odysseus came to shore he was ugly and he scared the other women
on the beach away, e .....
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The Odyssey
.... and beg to be untied, / take more turns of
rope to muffle me." (pg. 459, 536-539) This and telling the crew members to put
wax in their ears ensured that Odysseus, alone, could listen to the Sirens' song
and not die. When Odysseus had to figure out how he could kill the Suitors who
were staying in his house, he had Athena disguise him as an old beggar and then
told Telemachus, his son, to hide all of the Suitors' weapons and armor. If
they asked Telemachus what he was doing, he was to tell them he was .....
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Oedipus: The Mysteries Of Fate
.... drove a metal pin through the infants ankles and gave it to a shepherd,
with instructions to leave it to die. The shepherd pitied the little infant so
he gave the child to another shepherd. This shepherd gave the baby to a
childless king and queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope. This royal couple
named the boy Oedipus, which in its Greek form Oidipous means "swollen foot."
Oedipus was brought up believing that Polybus and Merope were his real parents,
and Lauis and Jocasta believed that their ch .....
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Structural Levels Of The Iliad
.... in
the world if he gave the apple of discord to her. He did so, and decided to go
and get his reward. Unfortunately, the most beautiful women in the world, Helen,
was the wife of the Greek King Menelaus. The abduction of Helen by Paris lead
to the Trojan war. The promise made by Aphrodite to Paris in order to get the
apple of discord resulted in the abduction of Helen and the start of the Trojan
war. Therefore, Aphrodite, in the universal war, set the stage for the social
war of the Greeks and Trojan .....
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Balder: God Of Light, Joy, Purity, Beauty, Innocence, And Reconciliation
.... one thing: a small tree in the
west that was called mistletoe, but she thought it was too small to ask for an
oath. Loki immediately left for the west and returned with the mistletoe. He
tricked Balder's blind twin brother Hod to shoot with a mistletoe fig. Not
knowing what he did, Hod threw the fig, guided by Loki's aim, and Balder fell
dead, pierced through the heart.
While the gods were lamenting over Balder's death, Odin sent his other son
Hermod to Hel, the goddess of death, to plead for Balder's .....
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"How Mosquitoes Came To Be": The Giant Lives On
.... kill a chicken, roast it and eat it, and a giant is bad
to "kill humans, eat their flesh, and drink their blood"(11)? Later in the
story we learn that the giant also liked to roast the hearts of humans. Another
puzzling question I asked myself is, if the giant was stabbed by the human and
"The monster screamed and fell down dead."(12), why did the giant still speak?
I know this is a legend or maybe just a fictionous story, but if the giant is
also a spirit then that would be helpful when reading the le .....
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