English Allusions 2/23-Pale Horse Origin- It’s a biblical horse that death rides in Rev. 6:8 Meaning- a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible. 2/24-Trojan horse Origin-Comes from the Trojan war when the greeks built a giant wooden horse and hid men inside. They left the horse outside of Troy and pretended to sail away as a sign that the Trojans won. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night.
Taylor A. Strande Mr. Passler Acc. English 10 27 Janurary 2012 Allusion to Icarus Allusion to Icarus Context: The Allusion to Icarus is referenced to in the book Fahrenheit 451, on page 113 when the firemen arrive a Montag’s house and are instructed to burn it. Category: Mythological Quotation from Fahrenheit 451: “Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he’s burnt his damn wings, he wonders why.” (113) In Greek mythology, the man known as Icarus is the offspring of the “master Athenian craftsman” Daedalus. Icarus and his father fell under the wrath of Minos, which was blaming Deadalus for his precious daughter’s death. Minos condemns Deadalus and Icarus to a Labyrinth.
The tale concerns the wizard Prospero, who was once the Duke of Milan, but was usurped by his brother Antonio and was cast off to die with his four year old daughter Miranda. Survived, stranded on the island, Prospero enslaved Caliban the island´s sole inhabitant. 12 years later, Alonso the King of Naples sailed back to his kingdom accompanied by his sons Ferdinand and Antonio. Prospero saw his chance of revenge, causing a tempest which wrecked the ship and stranded those on board on his island. The play “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare and the movie version directed by Julie Taymor in 2010 have several significant differences in the characters, relationships and themes.
THE ODYSSEY Written by: Homer Translated by: Robert Fitzgerald Supervised by: Mrs. Amira Awaad Done by: Karim Ahmed Class: 9/C Summary of the Odyssey Part (1) Prologue * Muse, help me tell the story of the skillful wanderer who wanted to return home after the battle of Troy, the Trojan War. * He made many adventures during the bitter nights at sea. * He fought to save his life and his shipmates’ lives. * His companions killed and feasted the cattle of Helios. * They were destroyed and prevented to return home again.
The Persians ran out of supplies and returned after the defeat of Marathon. The second invasion of Greece by the Persians happened in the year 480 BC. Xerxes was the Persian King at this time. He gathered a huge army. This army attacked the Greeks at Thermopylae, a town just north of
The journeys are different as well and the travels are very unalike but strongly resemble each other. The epic hero of The Odyssey was the King of Ithaka, known as Odysseus. Odysseus endured a heroic journey after succeeding in the Trojan War, then being abducted for 20 years on an unknown territory and finally after enduring many challenges and obstacles returns to long awaited beloved wife Penelope. Where-as, the epic hero of “O, Brother Where Art Thou?” is Everett Ulysses McGill who recently escaped prison who was arrested for practicing law without a degree and tries to return home to his
Comparison Essay Thousands of years ago Homers great epic poem The Odyssey was written. A Poem about the adventures and misfortunes of Odysseus throughout his voyages around the ancient Mediterranean Sea. In recent years, many stories and movies have been based on the same principal as The Odyssey, but one movie in particular did a great job in comparing the two stories, O Brother, Where Art Thou? O Brother, Where Art Thou? is about a man who has to break out of jail to stop his wife from marrying a suitor, and includes his audacious voyage home.
In the Odyssey, Odysseus is the leading Greek hero. He is King of Ithica, son of Laertes and Anticlea. Odysseus is also the husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus. Odysseus was sent to fight in the Trojan War in Troy by Menelaus. He spent many years fighting there and finally defeated them with the “wooden horse.” After the war, he set sail to return to his island, Ithica.
Odysseus was widely known to the ancient Greeks for helping defeat Troy with his idea of the Trojan horse to get King Menelaus’ wife, Helen, back from Paris, the prince of Troy. It took Odysseus ten years to win the war and ten years to reach his homeland, Ithaca, and return to his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus. During these twenty years, Odysseus has chosen to make many bad decisions and choices yet he was blessed by the gods and helped by his mentor Athena and safely reached Ithaca but lost all his comrades and friends. Odysseus reached Ithaca to find his home occupied by ruthless, arrogant suitors! Aggravated, Odysseus carefully planned a trap with the help of two loyal men and killed all the suitors.
The epic journey The Odyssey by, homer is an epic story written a very long time ago. Some time later a movie based off the book The Odyssey this movie has the same feel and only uses homers ideas dose not copy them completely. This movies title is O brother where are thou? The epic The Odyssey is about a man named Odysseus. He had just fought a war in troy and is on his way home to Ithaca, but on the way he runs into the wrong things and soon becomes years before he is able to get home.