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- 1121: The Odysseus: The Theme of Love
- ... courting her. She always keeps the hope that her love, Odysseus, will return. Odysseus and Penelope's marriage clearly illustrates the theme of love. There are also many other bonds formed in life that show great love and guidance. One of the most emphasized in the Odyssey is the father - son relationship. These relationships clearly support the issue of love in the Odyssey. The father - son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachos ... between Odysseus and Laertes. Odysseus, when he returns, wishes to go see his father. When he confronts his father and tries to hide his identity, he is unable to finish his story because of the great sorrow in his father's eyes. This shows how much he loves his father and what great suffering he caused him. This anguish that Laertes exhibits also shows how much love he has for his son. Since Odysseus was assumed to be dead, it almost sent Laertes into a kind of ...
- 1122: Antigone 2
- The play Antigone by Sophocles displays many qualities that make it a great tragedy. A tragedy is defined as a dramatic or literary work in which the principal character engages in a morally significant struggle ending in ruin or profound disappointment. In creating his tragedy Antigone , Sophocles uses ... his readers. This in turn creates an excellent tragedy. In order for a play to be considered a tragedy it must achieve the purgation of fear and pity. In the play Antigone , Sophocles does a great job of bringing out these two emotions in a reader. At the beginning of the play there is a conversation between Antigone and her sister Ismene. During the conversation the reader learns the two girls ... afraid that if he did give in that he would be judged as an easy king. In a way this ending brings the two emotions together. The reader feels pity for Creon because of his great loss, but at the same time he feels a bit of fear because he wouldn t want this type of tragedy to ever occur in his life. During the play the reader learns that ...
- 1123: Why Did The Textile Workers Un
- ... 2,240 spindles and a mere one hundred looms. By the turn of the century the mill expanded and operated 67,650 spindles and 200,000 looms. Growth seemed to continue almost exponentially until the depression set in in 1929. It could easily be said that the depression was the cause of the ill will that the workers felt toward their employers. Although the mills seemed to be doing great, grossing sales in the billions of dollars, the working class in the mills were seeing very little of the industries success. Textile workers earned less than any other laborer, and in North Carolina average ...
- 1124: Beowulf
- ... in the fact that over the last few hundred years, we have recovered many works from all over the world, dating back through years that had been long forgotten to many of us. In a great many of these works we have come into contact with many tales of heroism and the fight between good and evil. Just as the heroism in these stories may take on different faces, so does ... have today. It is the embodiment of the struggle between good and evil. The poem begins with the funeral of Scyld, the mythical founder of the Danish Royal House. One of his descendants builds a great hall called Heorot, and it is here that the people gather to rejoice and sing the praises of G-d. This singing angers a vile fiend named Grendel, that inhabits the nearby bog. The poet ... when everyone had fallen asleep, and slaughter the men in protest to the music and song that filled his ears during the day. Grendel hated all of mankind and the sounds that resonated from the great hall fueled his hatred even more. Grendel held an inborn hatred for all of mankind. Nightly Grendel would make his trip into the hall and kill whomever was there. In speaking about the nightly ...
- 1125: The Women Of Jane Austen
- The Women of Jane Austen Jane Austen has attracted a great deal of critical attention in recent years. Many have spoken out about the strengths and weaknesses of her characters, particularly her heroines. Austen has been cast as both a friend and foe to the rights ... at an early age. Social security did not exist at the time and a retirement pension could not guarantee comfort late in life. For women, especially, the idea of growing old without financial support caused great consternation. Thus, as illustrated in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, many married those whom they held in low esteem but who possessed a great deal of financial stability. In Newman s opinion, [In her fiction,] Austen exposes the fundamental discrepancy in her society between its avowed ideology of love and its implicit economic motivation (695). Of course, marriage ...
- 1126: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... There is usually two to four runners for this grand position but only one is deemed the winner and the American President. So far in our history there have been forty-two presidents of this great country but there are only the latest ten outlined here. The first of these ten specific icons is Harry S. Truman; born in Lamar, Missouri in 1884 and lived his life as a farmer. During ... was shot to death in his motorcade as it wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest person elected to the presidency and also the youngest to die. Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson believed in a Great Society for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere. Born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas and worked his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College, he taught Mexican kids and those who ... new civil rights bill and a tax cut. He tried to keep his memory alive because after all This is still his presidency. I'm just filling in. His next goal was to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor. In 1964, Johnson won the reelection with the largest margin of popular votes in the history of ...
- 1127: Adolf Hitler
- ... use legal means to assume power. Hitler was released as a result of general amnesty in December 1924.He then rebuilt his party without interference from those whose government he tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression struck in 1929,Hitler explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot. This was accepted by many Germans. Hitler promised a strong Germany, jobs, and national glory. He attracted millions of voters. Nazi representation in the ... an alliance with Italy and Japan. They would become known as the Axis Powers. In March 1938 Hitlers troops invaded Austria. It was then annexed and became part of Germany. In September 1938, France, Great Britain, and Germany met over the German occupation of the Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia. Out of this came the Munich Pact which gave Germany the Sudentenland in exchange for Germanys promise not to take ...
- 1128: Higher Education
- ... of yore did not work, then we can benefit from that mistake and construct a more appropriate world to live in. There are those who also believe in teaching a university curriculum, based on the Great Books approach, is a worthy inspiration. That is not likely supported by Allan Bloom. Bloom believes that a college is in existence for a student to assimilate as much knowledge as conceivable. An exemplary example of Bloom's opinion is his quote that "It is amateurish; it encourages an autodidact's self-assurance without competence; one cannot read all of the Great Books carefully; if one only reads Great Books, one can never know what a great, as opposed to ordinary, book is;." This statement is profoundly true by reason of one person cannot conclude that one object is considered "great" if that ...
- 1129: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... literature. Many literary historians believe that the legend which suggests the composer Salieri may have murdered Mozart can be traced back to Pushkin's play MOZART AND SALIERI. (It is worth noting here that the great nineteenth-century Russian composer, Rimsky-Korsakov, wrote a successful opera based on the play in 1898; and both the play and the opera would later inspire the British playwright Peter Shaffer in writing AMADEUS). Pushkin's short stories--such as "The Queen of Spades," upon which Tchaikovsky based his great opera "Pique Dame"--are the first great works of prose fiction in Russian to stand the test of time unshakably. His most widely read masterpiece, the verse novel EUGENE ONEGIN, is the source for another magnificent Tchaikovsky opera by the same ...
- 1130: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... schizophrenia and eventual breakdown scarred Fitzgerald, contributing to the deep, self-reproaching despair that brought his career to a near standstill in the mid 1930s. The crowning achievement of his career was his novel The Great Gatsby in 1925, Fitzgerald s popularity was due to the fact that he has still able to illuminate the manners of the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald s second and third novels, as well as the story ... saying the final line of the novel he claims that now, finally, he knows himself, but that is all This line consummates the quest of the entire book (190). From it s first appearance, The Great Gatsby won critical applause for the excellence of its form, and it has continued to do so ever since. Critics have praised the novel for meticulous construction and the weaving of the past and the ... style, and gone on instead to what are supposed the bigger topics raised by the novel- it s legendary quality, it s quintessential vision of the American dream, romantic hope and romantic disillusion (31). The Great Gatsby does not proclaim the nobility of the human spirit; it is not politically correct; it does no reveal how to solve the problems of life; it delivers no fashionable of comforting messages (Bruccoli ...
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