Lancelot was guilty of treason to his friend, guilty of treason to the high king of England, and guilty of treason to himself. The major downfall of Lancelot was his immediate attraction to the worst person in the whole world to fall in love with: his best friend’s wife. Every free moment when Arthur wasn’t around, Lancelot and Guenever were doing something they shouldn’t have been doing Lancelot proclaims his continual love for Arthur: “He (Lancelot) had not buried his love for Arthur in his passion for Guenever…” (387). How can a honorable knight say that he has a passion for Arthur’s wife, while in the same breath saying that his love for Arthur has not been diluted by Guenever? Lancelot’s love for Guenever made him rethink his life; he needed to get away from
Some healthy, or not so healthy sibling rivalry. The second part of the book, “Theogony,” is a poem of the Greek Gods and in my opinion could have been the ones who invented revenge because they display it the best. Either being the most graceful or being horribly evil, revenge was no stranger to Greek mythology. Hesiod’s “Works and Days” is a poem about his low life brother Perses who thinks he didn’t get his fair share in their father’s inheritance. Perses thinks it is so unfair that he even takes the dispute to court for a hearing.
Therefore, Maria was an innocent victim of the French corruption that nicknamed her Madame Deficit despite she often gave examples of almsgiving. As Campan observed in her Memoirs of Maria Antoinette, when she married the dauphin, Maria Antoinette was a frightened adolescence who had to defend herself from the enemies of the court. And it was exactly “the mistreatment undergo everyday that made her decide to enjoy life, organize parties, look beautiful and avoid the senseless rule of the French etiquette.”12 Those logical wishes for a 19 year old were used by pamphlets as a way to damage even more the reputation of Maria Antoinette. In fact they exaggerated by assuring that “in one day Maria was able to spend more money than a thousand peasants living in Paris.”13 This was a pure calumny. Though it must be admitted that when Maria Antoinette became queen she refused to understand the privileges that came with the position, she was not the responsible for the poverty and the high inflation of France.
Women’s stereotypical household role is cooking in the kitchen, hence the word choice “pepper-and-salt”. Even more ironic, most people would say, “Pass the salt-and-pepper.” Phrasing it backwards feels unnatural, suggesting the unattractiveness of Miss Emily’s hair color. Also, females are supposed to be womanly, so comparing her hair to that of an old man seems offensive. When Miss Emily is seen again around the time she meets Homer, the narrator says her hair was “cut short, making her look like a girl” (240). Once again Faulkner is hinting at society’s idea of a perfect female as a mature woman, which Emily’s hair cut
Laura Dumpson January 2011 Global AP Jackson Per. 7 Aphrodite Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of beauty, love, and sexuality. Hesiod’s Theogony, it claims Aphrodite was born when Cronus cut off Uranus’ genital and threw them into the sea. From the sea foam (aphros) arose Aphrodite. Gods feared that because of her beauty, jealousy would disrupt the peace among them leading to war.
And last, the language of different scenarios, i.e. battles vs. joyous occasions, lends itself to glorifying deadly and gruesome struggles. Homer has a unique way of devising the plot, giving mixed signals and paradoxes, but it all just gives to the realism of this amazing piece of literature. Odysseus’ faithfulness for his wife is questionable. In the first book, you find that he is sleeping with a woman named Kalypso, a sea nymph.
“the two older sisters were very vein and cruel…[they made the girl do all the house work and charred her face] pg.” The story really shocked me. I thought that the girl would become beautiful like in the other Cinderella stories but, I was wrong. I really liked this version better than the one I grew up with because of the magnificent theme that it had. The theme is that beauty is on the inside rather than just on the outside. Even though, the girl’s face was burnt the invisible man looked past that and saw her for her.
It is relevant to examine the salient features of the language he has ascribed to his protagonist, the comic technique he has employed in this monologue, and character analysis of Susan, acted by Maggie Smith in the television production. The opening line of the monologue is instantly humorous: “Geoffrey's bad enough but I'm glad I wasn't married to Jesus.” The bathos 3 establishes the comic natures of the monologue. By comparing her husband Geoffrey to Jesus, Susan makes gives a cutting remark about the mortal and the divine. Another example of bathos is when she talks about putting money in the plate which is “symbol of everything in our lives we are offering to God, and that includes our sex. I could only find 10p.” (p70) a ridiculous comparison between giving yourself wholeheartedly to God and a few pennies, and when Susan even suggests replacing the missing communion wine with Benylin: a cough mixture instead of a sacramental wine: “…..if Jesus is all he’s cracked up to be
Was hospitality an empty gesture in ancient Greece? You could look back to Circe, Calypso, and the suitors of the Odyssey, as they all point to one answer. Hospitality in Greece is a central value, however the most hospitable, or the people who take the most advantage of hospitality are often those with ulterior motives. Circe breaks hospitality when she invites men into her home to turn them into swines. Circe had invited Odyseeus’s crew into her home, she filled their bowls with a wonderful stew but “Once they’d drained the bowls she filled, suddenly she struck with her wand, drove them into her pigsties, all of them bristling into swine” (Homer 237, 261-263).
If Maupassant’s story “The Necklace” had been poorly written, it could easily have shown Mathilde quickly as only vain and superficial. But all writers must make us feel for their central characters if their stories are to be successful. Analyze Mathilde, her husband and any other secondary characters in the story and develop an argument that explains how Maupassant forces us to care about what happens to Mathilde. Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" tells of a vain, narcissistic middle-class housewife who longed for the aristocratic lifestyle that she believed she deserved. In describing Mathilde's callous self-centeredness in preparing for the party to which she and her husband were invited, as well as her reaction to losing what she thought was an expensive necklace she borrowed, de Maupassant incorporates a tragic irony that makes this story a timeless classic.