Epic Archetype Essay
By the waters of Babylon, a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet who writes about the son of a priest name John who is destined to become a priest itself and how he manifests himself by traveling to the “Place of God”, a city where it is located across the great river and it is strictly forbidden by the hill people. Jon simply begins the quest because of his thirst for new knowledge. He began to have conflicts on the way to the dead place, trying to figure out if gods really existed and at the same time battling with the wild dogs and forest people..
John, as he is soon to inherit the position of his father, his admiration and fascination by the myths of the place of gods has grew stronger and motivated him to seek for new knowledge about the gods and the history of human civilization. Desperate for new knowledge he is willing to give everything up even if that means putting his life in danger. “If I went to the place of the gods, I would surely die, but if i did not go, I could never be at peace with my spirit, if one is a …show more content…
We can also infer that John and his people are very behind in technology and civilization. As John enters the building he could not recognize any object that are commonly found in our household today. “There was a washing place but no water-perhaps the gods washed in air. There was a cooking place but no wood, and though there was a machine to cook food, there was no place to put fire in it” (Bennet 285-289). He did not know that they were so he thinks that only gods had the ability to use them when in reality those were just common house supplies. John and his people are very far from technology and our civilization
By the waters of Babylon, a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet who writes about the son of a priest name John who is destined to become a priest itself and how he manifests himself by traveling to the “Place of God”, a city where it is located across the great river and it is strictly forbidden by the hill people. Jon simply begins the quest because of his thirst for new knowledge. He began to have conflicts on the way to the dead place, trying to figure out if gods really existed and at the same time battling with the wild dogs and forest people..
John, as he is soon to inherit the position of his father, his admiration and fascination by the myths of the place of gods has grew stronger and motivated him to seek for new knowledge about the gods and the history of human civilization. Desperate for new knowledge he is willing to give everything up even if that means putting his life in danger. “If I went to the place of the gods, I would surely die, but if i did not go, I could never be at peace with my spirit, if one is a …show more content…
We can also infer that John and his people are very behind in technology and civilization. As John enters the building he could not recognize any object that are commonly found in our household today. “There was a washing place but no water-perhaps the gods washed in air. There was a cooking place but no wood, and though there was a machine to cook food, there was no place to put fire in it” (Bennet 285-289). He did not know that they were so he thinks that only gods had the ability to use them when in reality those were just common house supplies. John and his people are very far from technology and our civilization