The Odyssey Report
.... before he eats and enjoys the festivities; nor does
he give any indication that he wants Telemachos to leave. He says "stay here in
my mansion for ten or twelve days and then I will give you a good send off and a
handsome gift, three horses and a chariot: I will give you a fine chalice too,
that when you pour your drop to the immortal gods you may think of me all your
days". This statement shows that not only does he wish Telemachos to stay but
that he is a very generous man indeed. Due to kindness of both men good things
are bound to ensue. For Telemachos the good outcome he receives is the accurate
news of his fathers wher .....
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The Odyssey
.... thundered/
overhead, one loud crack for a sign.”(p.478, 1032-1033), this sign told Odysseus
to start attacking the suitors. The way Circe helps Odysseus in warning him of
dangers to come, “Circe forsaw for us and shared with me,/ so let me tell her
forcast: then we die/ with out eyes open.”(p.459, 528-530) She warned of the
Sirens, Charybdis, Scylla, and the island of the sun god. Also Athene help
Odysseus fight the suitors and win. She also disguises Odysseus to hide him
from the suitors and Penelope.
In The Odyssey the gods, goddesses, and creatures proved to be deadly.
The six-headed monster, Scylla, killed six of Odysse .....
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The Accounts Of Eros In The "Symposium"
.... is what stands the speechof
Socrates and Diotima apart from most of the others. But, there were two other
speeches that were also impressive and brought about points that Socrates did
not make. These accounts were given by Aristophanes and Agathon. Through these
three speeches, we can get a good picture of what eros is. Starting with the
most complete account: Socrates and Diotima; and moving through Aristophanes and
then Agathon, this paper will show why these accounts are superior, and why
Socrates' makes the most sense.
After Agathon's speech, it was Socrates' turn to present his account of eros.
But before he does, he tells A .....
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A Critical Appraisal Of: Beowulf And Gilgamesh
.... deity of the
city) proclaims her love for the heroic Gilgamesh. When he rejects her, she
sends the Bull of Heaven to destroy the city. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the bull,
and, as punishment for his participation, the gods doom Enkidu to die. After
Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh seeks out the wise man Utnapishtim to learn the secret
of immortality. The sage recounts to Gilgamesh a story of a great flood (the
details of which are so remarkably similar to later biblical accounts of the
flood that scholars have taken great interest in this story). After much
hesitation, Utnapishtim reveals to Gilgamesh that a plant bestowing eternal
yo .....
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The Odysseus: The Theme Of Love
.... relationship. These relationships clearly support the issue of love in
the Odyssey.
The father - son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachos is a little
awkward because they both never really got to know each other but they
still care for each other's well being. When Odysseus hears of all the
suitors devouring Telemachos's future fortune and mistreating him, he wants
to return and revenge the misuse of his family and property. Odysseus,
like any parent, also misses his only child while he is at war. Telemachos
on the contrary also displays a lot of love for his father. Telemachos
leaves Ithaca, inexperienced, to find .....
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Richard Swinburne's "The Problem Of Evil": God's Existence
.... creating a world in which there
is evil, then He would not be omnibenevolent. If God did not know He was
creating a world in which evil exists, then He would not be omniscient. If God
is omnipotent then He would be able to stop any evil from occurring. Either way,
God would not be what Christianity makes him out to be. Swinburne argues that
the theodicist, one who believes that it is not wrong for God to create a world
in which there is evil, can logically explain the existence of evil in the world.
The main argument that the theodicist uses is the free-will defense, which
claims that God gave humans the freedom to choo .....
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Dreams
.... passed. These, like almost all other dreams have significance
as a result of bodily rejuvenation processes. This type of dream has a
significance I believe in helping the person have the feeling of a good sleep,
where things have, if not in some bazaar way, been resolved.
The third type of dream is one which makes great and perfect sense to
the dreamer but doesn't have any real meaning. An example of this is dreaming
that you are flying. Although you know what you are doing, and are
comprehending this, it really doesn't have meaning in your life. Dreams like
this can be quite mentally satisfying to the dreamer. Many times .....
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Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalist Experience Through Imagination
.... to draw their power and write from their
experiences. Experience was the most important factor to these writers. The
ability “to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account in my next
excursion” was the basis of all their writings. “To get the whole and genuine
meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the whole world” was their goal
behind all their writings. They did not use their power of writing in order to
gain a transcendentalist experience, but rather to record them. Both Emerson
and Thoreau chose to contact their true natural surroundings, and experience
time alone in the “woods”. By being “ .....
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Camus' "The Stranger": Choice And Individual Freedom Are Integral Components Of Human Nature
.... mentality, one which would alienate a man
based on his perceived indifference towards the mundane, and try, convict, and
execute a man based on his lack of purported empathy towards the irrelevant.
Attention to the trial sequence will reveal that the key elements of the
conviction had little to do with the actual crime Meursault had committed, but
rather the "unspeakable atrocities" he had committed while in mourning of his
mother's death, which consisted of smoking a cigarette, drinking a cup of coffee,
and failing to cry or appear sufficiently distraught. Indeed, the deformed
misconception of moral truth which the jury [soci .....
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Hemingway And "Nada"
.... she cant set her goals higher. Her
goals could be the goals Jesus talks about. Her goal in life was and still is to
sleep with more and more guys. Back to nada it means that she has nothing;
nothing to believe in and nothing to live for.
Alice lives in an illusion. It seems that she suppresses the fact that she
is a fat prostitute. How much lower can you get? She suppresses her problems
with her dreams and illusions. The most important belief is that she had a
sexual relationship with Ketchel. That is her main belief. For a normal American,
Jesus would the most important belief. Ketchel gives her the strength to
withstand her .....
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The Communist Manifesto And Karl Marx And Frederick Engels
.... age as being distinguished from earlier periods by
the simplification and intensification of the class conflict. He states that
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile
camps... bourgeoisie and proletariat" (Marx 9). The bourgeoisie, as the
dominant class of capitalists, subjugates the proletariat by using it as an
object for the expansion of capital. As capitalism progresses, this
subjugation reduces a larger portion of the population to the proletariat and
society becomes more polarized.
According to Marx, the polarization of society and the intense
oppression of the proletariat will eventually .....
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Novelty Never Lasts
.... as I used to. Instead, I just
shrug it off, "Pizza, big deal, what else do we have to eat?" This same loss of
appreciation has happened with my second job as well. I have been working at
Sony Theater's Palace Nine for about four months now, and I can easily say that
I don't really enjoy an outing to the movies as much as I used to enjoy them.
Probably because I see them all for free now, but mostly because I know exactly
how the movie theater works, I no longer experience the same thrill about going
to the movies that I once did. I know all the ins and outs of the business I
need to, and I am no longer fascinated by the mov .....
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