The removal of the immortals from the Odyssey, would – despite supposedly in some sense improve the poem – essentially weaken the poem and the story as a whole. Whilst the removal of the gods would provide Odysseus to act of his own accord, and allow the audience to see how Odysseus can cope without the interruption of the gods. Nevertheless, without immortals in the Odyssey, the poem would ultimately lack a crucially exciting fact of narrative and would look very different as a story of a man trying to achieve his nostos, after the Trojan War. Ultimately, it must be acknowledged that without the immortal gods, the Odyssey would most likely not exist as the Trojan War would not have happened. The Trojan War began due to Paris’ decision to give the golden apple ‘for the most beautiful’ to Aphrodite (instead of Athene or Hera) as she offered him Helen as his wife.
The author evidence in supporting her ideas is by narrating stories. The entire chapter is full of different stories about how the white pigment was discovered and what ingredients have been used to made it, stories about people’s adventures and their sacrifices in their journey to learn more about the pigments. Similar with chapter “White” is her chapter “The Paintbox”. Victoria Finlay discusses the importance of the color in the art world from the late medieval period to the present, and the people behind the paintings and their most secret techniques. However, the only difference between these two chapters is how she organized the material.
His techniques and talent helped him paint very strong pictures of masculinity, and heroism, yet taking risks of painting in new ways. David’s interest was in classical art, Greek and Roman art, yet he would paint conflicts that were arising in France, and would show these conflicts through classical looking characters, and scenery. People were vastly interested in this new idea of art, because it did not directly portray the problems that France faced. In the portrait below, David portrays the Sabine Women as coming in between the Greeks and Romans because they already have children and lives with the Roman men, so warriors are only doing worse for the women if they continue fighting. The courageous women came into the war themselves to stop the fighting.
For this piece we were allowed to choose to make what ever we wanted as long as we told our professor about it first and showed her a sketch of it in our sketchpads. I chose to make a vase for my mother. I thought at first it was not going to be hard but I would soon realize later in my journal entries just how challenging making a vase is. I started off by using the techniques I was shown to build up the vase. When
By virtue of his narcissism ,hedonism, and disregard for others, his portrait grown uglier and uglier. There are allusions in the text that indicate the portrait as a representation of his soul. There are various themes which Oscar Wilde wanted to present to the readers. The value of beauty and youth, the influence and corruption and appearance vs reality. Lord Henry claims to value beauty and youth above all else.
Delacroix realizes that upperclass, "civilized" culture is phony and shallow. This realization, coupled with his new view on beauty, allows him to create imaginative and unique worlds in his paintings. He avoids painting things seen daily, and digs into deeper more primal human emotions. He accomplishes this by focusing on color and movement in his pieces rather than on line or formal
Architects loved light, so they used domes, less stained glass and big windows. Architecture was built for beauty, elegance & comfort. During this time period the roles of artists changed drastically. Sculptures were made to celebrate the human body, decoration, for important people/events. During the Renaissance, writers focused on translating works of Greeks & Romans.
One top of that, the blackberries got spoiled, where “sweet flesh would turn sour”, which is the change for worse. This allusion helps convey the narrator’s feelings about the blackberries. Heaney also makes a good use of the poetic turn. The transition word ‘but’ signals a change in tone. Before the poetic turn, everything was positive, but after the transition, everything seemed negative.
The Romans admired Greek literature and art, but also had contrasting ideas. In poems, the heroes were based off Romans and were more realistic. A new type of writing emerged called odes-poems that expressed emotions about life. Romans used Greek ideas in art, yet had other varying ideas as well. The statues they carved were much more realistic than the Greeks’.
Alex Boyles Mr. Imms English 102 5 February 2015 The Birthmark and Its Themes Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the short story “The Birthmark” and centered the entire story on symbolism. The story has many different themes and does not hide the fact that it shows symbolism. "The Birthmark" is a short story centering on an eighteenth-century scientist's obsession with removing a birthmark from the cheek of his extraordinarily beautiful wife. The story can almost be categorized as a dark romance. It is a very descriptive story that compares human perfection with obsession.