This painting has symbolic meaning as it tries to communicate the story of Aphrodite. There was a new found interest in ancient Greece, during the time it was painted, and so, it illustrates the Greek myth. The Birth of Venus illustrates the fact that this culture glorifies and defines beauty through the usage of the female form. The bodies are painted in a way that honors the human body in a way that is not shameful. I love the painting, The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli.
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet also ascertains the idea of fate as the driving force behind occurrences. Hamlet’s fate is sealed, as is his Uncle Claudius’, Polonius and Laertes. Nothing can be done to change fate. Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King explores the concept of fate as being a driving force between the events that unfold within the play. In the play Oedipus’ parents (King Lauis and Queen Jocasta) send him away to be killed because of prophecy that tells that Oedipus would one day kill his father (Laius) and marry his mother Jocasta.
Aphrodite sent the child to be looked after by Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld. However, Persephone, too, fell dearly in love with Adonis and refused to give him up when Aphrodite came for him. There was a bitter argument and Zeus had to intervene to prevent a disastrous argument between the two. Zeus decided that every year Adonis would spend four months with Persephone, the next four months with Aphrodite and the last four months he would be left alone, so that he may learn to look after himself. Adonis grew up to be a very handsome young man, stealing the hearts of many such as the Goddess Aphrodite.
When Maggie Glenn, an upstate South Carolina photographer, takes an almost propagandist picture of Mr. Kowalsky looking sad staring at the river of where his passed daughter rests this story picks up fire and politicians from the surrounding area get involved to help get this man’s daughter out of the river, which maddens the locals who would not like to see the only free flowing river in the state be tampered with. Installing a temporary dam in the Tamassee River to retrieve the body of twelve year old Ruth Kowalsky seems like a good, safe way to securely recover this little girl’s body, but the law clearly states “certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.” Then it states “alteration of modification of the streambed will not
He left Juliet vulnerable in the tomb. The text states, “Come, go, good Juliet. I dare not stay” (5,3,59). He was trying to get Juliet to hurry because the watch was coming and he does not want to get caught. He left Juliet and Juliet stabbed herself with Romeo’s dagger.
Juliet then awakens and asks the friar where Romeo is, with a fully conscious memory of what her and friar’s original plans were. The friar tells her that, by some higher power, their plans have been changed: "A greater power than we can contradict/ Hath thwarted our intents” (Act 5; scene 3, lines 153-154). He then hears a noise coming from the other side of tomb, and begs Juliet to get up and leave with him, and also reveals that Paris and Romeo are both dead. Juliet immediately refuses to go with him. After friar had left the tomb, Juliet finds Romeo’s body, and also finds a vile, which had some sort of poison in it.
At Camp Half-Blood, Chiron allows Percy to hear his “Great Prophecy.” Afterwards, he informs the Camp of a spy for Kronos, but they put that aside as they have much bigger problems such as the impeding war against the Titans. Soon, Percy once again leaves camp with Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, to find out Nico’s battle strategy. Percy agrees with his plan and procures a blessing from his mother, which allowed him to descend in the Underworld. Here, Nico betrays Percy to find out more information about his mother, while Hades betrays them both and locks Percy in a cell. Nico however, helps Percy escape and they went back to the original plan, which was to bathe Percy in the River Styx and gain Achilles’ power, invulnerability.
“Put some rose petals on his nose!” “No, that won’t work!” “Put some frogs skin on to his stomach!” “Pray to god!” “Sprinkle him with salt!” “Whip yourself!” But they were too late. They walked in silence, tears in there eyes along the street to brake the news to Catherine Sibley. Two days later Maggie had gone missing. She had tried to run away, away from the illness but had fallen on the way and died. A week later Peter came across her body while coming home from work.
Thus, I think Mona Lisa is the most suitable artwork for me to mediate different meanings produced since the Renaissance until the postmodern world. The Renaissance’s painter Leonardo Da Vinci finished the portrait in between 1503-1504. There are multiple hypotheses about why the portrait was created: some of them says that it is a self- portrait of the painter by noting that the eyes, nose- tip and mouth of Mona Lisa actually line up with a known self portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. Other claims that the sitter and the painter had a special rapport. Thus, the sitter appeared to look at the viewer (actually the painter) straight in the eye with ease.
Upon arriving home to his farm John discovered that his father has been murdered by a member of the Doone clan, who he later finds out was Carver Doone. Fighting his desire to avenge his father, he grows up and becomes a respectable farmer, like his father, and cares for his mother and his two sisters, Annie and Lizzie. On Valentine’s Day after John’s fourteenth birthday, he tries to catch loach for his sickly mother, but fails at his usual route. He then ventures toward Bagworthy, which lead into Doone Valley, and finds what he is looking for. He tries to climb the waterfall but collapses from exhaustion, later waking in Glen Doone with a girl named Lorna Doone, who helps him to safely escape.