Our story begins in the barbaric country of Glome in a pre-Christian civilization. Orual is a queen whose life is coming to an end. She has nothing to lose and is emboldened to complain against the Gods. Specifically, she writes about the God of the Grey Mountain and all He has done against her from the very beginning, asking us to judge between her and God. This complaint written by her hand was found in the Greeklands: I hear that in the Greek lands they write great dramas about the struggle between man and the Gods.
All of these texts express the complexity of truth through the differing representations of Hughes and Plath’s turbulent relationship. Hughes’ ‘Birthday Letters’ is a series of poems addressed to Plath that convey his subjective truth of the nature of their relationship and subsequent marriage. The anthology is written with hindsight and knowledge, and includes questioning; as Hughes is unsure of his memories. ‘Fulbright Scholars’ in particular portrays a tone of uncertainty through the use of rhetorical questions, authorial answers, and the repetition of ‘or’. ‘Where was it, in the Strand?’, ‘Or arrived.
Quote; Chorus: “And when he had put on the yoke-strap of compulsion, his spirits wind veering to an impious blast, impure, unholy, from that moment his mind changed to a temper of utter ruthlessness. For mortals are made reckless by the evil counsels of merciless infatuation, beginner of disaster. And so he steeled himself to become the sacrificer of his daughter, to aid a war fought to avenge a woman’s loss and to pay beforehand for his ships.” (218-227) This is wear the divine intervention of Gods come into play. Agamemnon claims that the sacrifice of his daughter was necessary to win the war against Troy, because Artemis trapped him in Aulis with unfavorable winds, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia would appease her, allowing them to successfully reach
To what extent is ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ about nostalgia? Nostalgia is one of the pivotal issues and key themes within the Moshin Hamid novel ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. Nostalgia within the novel encompasses and engrosses everyone and everything from characters to countries. Hamid shows how crippling and dangerous nostalgia can be, how it can render us to live in a time-warp and distort both our sensibilities and views of the world. Hamid also addresses the idea of nostalgia breeding superiority, nostalgia for a time when Pakistan and not America dominated the world, has led Changez to feel resentment for the new power and to maintain a view of cultural superiority.
Demonstrate Through Close Analysis How Parallels and Oppositions Contribute to the Impact of a Lyric Poem of Your Choice. In 1586 on the eve of execution Chidiock Tichborne wrote a poem dealing with both the event of his death and how he felt about it contrasting with his youthful age. Like many lyrical poems it use’s techniques not only to convey emotions but to create a high impact on the reader. The main technique used to create the impact in this poem is the use of parallels and oppositions. The poem by Chidiock Tichborne is structured into three stanzas.
It would be logical to associate studies with knowledge and nobility, considering its connotations of enlightenment and education. However as the scene progresses the on-going internal conflict Faustus creates becomes more and more evident, his declarative ‘necromantic books are heavenly’ is heavily juxtaposed, not only does this represent the battle and confusion inherent within him, but would especially have shocked a deeply religious audience at the time of production, blasphemy being a punishable offence in the Elizabethan era. The nobility of Faustus that is highlighted here differs
The gods exercise absolute power over mortal actions in The Odyssey. In The Odyssey mortals are constantly making sacrifices to them. Offending the gods creates problems, as seen by the oxen of Helios and Poseidon's grudge against Odysseus for blinding his son Polyphemos. Athena is the most visible god in the poem. Only with her can Odysseus survive his dangerous adventures.
The main character, Thetis, watches Hephaestos's labors, and Auden creates an ironic conflict between her expectations of beautiful scenes and the images Hephaestos renders instead, of imperial Rome and of the modern world's industry and impersonality. This discrepancy shows the distance between the myth of history and its brutal reality; moreover, Auden suggests, the notion of progress itself is a myth, since the brutal past is scarcely distinguishable from the brutal present. The poem thus exemplifies Auden's vision of poetry as a powerful way to "disenchant and disintoxicate" the reader (Dyer's, 27), freeing one from the myths and fictions of history that, for all their beauty, often serve to compound or conceal human misery. In book XVIII of the Iliad, Homer writes of how the goddess Thetis, mother of Achilles, the greatest of Greek warriors, petitioned the god Hephaestos to forge him a new suit of armor to replace the one stripped by the Trojan leader Hector from the body of Achilles's slain friend, Patroclus. In describing the ornate design that Hephaestos works into the armor, Homer relates a world history that encompasses all the ages of man, and by connecting art, history, and war, Homer makes epic poetry a means of exploring the richness of human culture through a narrative of
Mohsin Hamid, author of the ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ implicates the reader within his controversial novel, to consequently highlight through the modern reader’s predetermined judgments, the ramifications of simple a misunderstanding between two cultures. The reader’s own outlooks are heightened by the use of dramatic monologue, accelerating and intensifying the tension between the characters in the novel, but also between the reader and the author himself. Hamid concentrates primarily on the imperialism of the American society and the demise, embodied within his symbolic stereotypical characters: representing their part within the fallen American empire accordingly. The 2007 novel accentuates the diverse, peculiar and differentiating qualities each one of Hamid’s characters posses and how each one aids in foreshadowing the events leading up to the deterioration of the parasitic relationship between America and Pakistan, both symbolically and literally post 9/11. Historically America has been depicted as the superior nation, deeming surrounding countries as inadequate and inferior.
Studying John Donne Q/: Comment on Donne’s different attitudes to women in any two of his poems. John Donne is widely known as the major metaphysical poet of the 17th century who contributed much in the escalation of the flow of literary transformation through his unique meshing of unusual unions, called conceits, and his varying attitudes towards womenkind. In “The Sun Rising”, Donne portrays his beloved to be so important and special that he does not want to lose sight of her for even an instance, as a result of a wink. This attitude contrasts that of “Go and Catch a Falling Star”, where he is cynical and untrusting of women, refusing to believe that a true woman exists. “The Sun Rising” is perfectly described as an aubade: a poem about lovers separating at dawn.