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- 201: The Power And The Glory
- ... inadequate priest and a sinner, but has come to terms with the eternal damnation he will face in the afterlife. The physical and cultural settings in The Power and Glory guide the reader through an odyssey of one man's struggle to find meaning in the world, as it parallels the priest's internal perspective, and symbolizes his redemptive conversion and his final unconscious achievement of martyrdom. Ater the Mexican Revolution ...
- 202: Their Eyes Were Watching God 4
- Unlike The Odyssey or any other epic tales, Their Eyes Were Watching God has a different perspective of what a hero is. In this novel, Hurston writes a story about an African-American woman named Janie Crawford whose ...
- 203: General George Patton
- ... in life was to be a hero. This noble aim was first inspired by listening to his father read aloud for hours about the exploits of the heroes of ancient Greece. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were particular favourites of young Georgie, who could recite lines from both texts long before he could even lift a sword. These classic images were filled out by recent war stories of living soldiers, particularly ...
- 204: General George S. Patton
- ... in life was to be a hero. This noble aim was first inspired by listening to his father read aloud for hours about the exploits of the heroes of ancient Greece. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were particular favourites of young Georgie, who could recite lines from both texts long before he could even lift a sword. These classic images were filled out by recent war stories of living soldiers, particularly ...
- 205: The World as Will and Idea and Young Goodman Brown: Symbols
- ... universal symbol is a journey into the underworld and a return from it. Such a journey may be an interpretation of a spiritual experience, a dark night of the soul and a kind of redemptive odyssey. Symbols as well as images are used to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind and any sensory or extra sensory experiences. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was well known for his masterly use ...
- 206: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... Duchκne 33). Schliemann began his travels in Asia, and began the habit of keeping a wanderer's journal. He wrote an account of his journey, China and Japan Today, for a St. Peterburg newspaper. The odyssey ended six months later in San Francisco, which he had visited ten years earlier following the death of his brother in California (Duchκne 36). In 1866 Schliemann took up residence in Paris and began to ...
- 207: James Cameron
- ... 1954. His family later moved to Chippewa Falls near Niagra Falls. James Cameron was during his youth years always very fascinated with movies. He was mezmerized when he saw Stanley Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he drew himself crazy trying to figure out how they had shot that film. Cameron also wrote sci-fi stories and fantasized a lot instead of doing his school work. It was actually during ...
- 208: Odysseus Is Not A Hero
- ... you will get the same general response. They will probably say "someone who does something for other people out of the goodness of his heart." Odysseus, who is the main character of the book "The Odyssey" written by Homer, would fit the dictionary's definition of a hero; but if you go deeper, looking at what people feel a hero is, he doesn't even come close. In the book, Odysseus ...
- 209: Life Of A Roman Slave
- ... was assigned the job of a paedagogus for Gnaeus' youngest son. Argus was extremely well educated, thanks to his Greek parents. Here the boy was taught simple math and was told stories such as the Odyssey and plays by Sophocles or Aeschylus. However, one fateful day while walking the son to school, a vicious dog leapt out of an alleyway and bit into the boy's neck. Argus beat off the ...
- 210: Voltaire's Candide: One Man's Search For True Happiness and Acceptance of Life's Disappointments
- ... has its struggles but it would be a miserable place if people passively accepted that everything was for the best, shrugging off responsibility. We see, in contrast to Dr. Pangloss, Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey, is a man of great courage who masters all situations and even searches for new adventures and challenges. Voltaire believes that people should not allow themselves to be victims. He sneers at naive, accepting types ...
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