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What is Gilgamesh author and publication?
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unknown, 400BC
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What is Candide auhor and publication date?
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Voltaire, 1759
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What is the "Spiral" author and publication date?
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Calvino, unknown
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Author and publication date for Jonah?
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unknown, unknown
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What is the author and publication date for "Ulysses"
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Tennyson, 1842
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What is the author and publication date for "The Father"?
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Mukherjee, 1985
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What is the author and publication date for "The Kiss"
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Checkhov, 1887
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What is the author and publication date for Antigone
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Sophocles, 441 BC
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What is the author and publication date for the "Red Swan"
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Chippewa, unknown
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What is the author and publication date for "Ring of Prairie"?
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unknown, unknown
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What is the author and publication date for Lais?
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Marie de France, 12 century
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Antagonist term
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One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary
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Protagonist term
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The main character in a drama or other literary work.
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Epiphany
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A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
A meaning of something |
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Flat character term
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a literary character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does not change in the course of the story
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Round character term
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complex literary character with fully developed and dynamic traits
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Static charcter term
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character stays the same
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dynamic charcter term
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charcter changes
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Harmatia term
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fatal/tragic flaw
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Hubris term
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excessive pride
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Catharsis term
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A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its audience.
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Forshadowing term
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To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand
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Flashback term
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A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.
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Pick to stories with a journey theme and compare them.
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Gilgamesh and "The Father".
Almost all of the action in Gilgamesh begins with a journey. Enkidu journeys from the wilderness to Uruk and Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh and Enkidu journey to the Cedar Forest. Enkidu journeys to the underworld. Gilgamesh journeys to and then through the twin-peaked mountain Mashu. He journeys to Urshanabi to find Utnapishtim, then travels with Urshanabi across the sea and through the sea of death, only to return to Uruk. Gilgameshs many journeys mirror his internal journey to become a selfless and devoted king. In a father, there was the journey that Mr. Bhowmick took to America from his Indian hometown. Like Enkidu, Mr. Browick was taken from his culture to a different one. |
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Compare two writings older and new witha common theme.
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Gilgamesh and Candide with the theme of Death.
Death is an inevitable and inescapable fact of human life, which is the greatest lesson Gilgamesh learns. Gilgamesh is bitter that only the gods can live forever and says as much when Enkidu warns him away from their fight with Humbaba. Life is short, the two warriors tell each other on their way to the deadly confrontation in the Cedar Forest, and the only thing that lasts is fame. But when Enkidu is cursed with an inglorious, painful death, their bravado rings hollow. Shamash, the sun god, consoles Enkidu by reminding him how rich his life has been, but though Enkidu finally resigns himself to his fate, Gilgamesh is terrified by the thought of his own. Mesopotamian theology offers a vision of an afterlife, but it gives scant comfortthe dead spend their time being dead. If Gilgameshs quest to the Cedar Forest was in spite of death, his second quest, to Utnapishtim, is for a way to escape it. Utnapishtims account of the flood reveals how ludicrous such a goal is, since death is inextricably woven into the fabric of creation. But life is woven in as well, and even though humans die, humanity continues to live. The lesson that Gilgamesh brings back from his quest isnt ultimately about deathits about life. In Antigone, Antigone, Haemon, and Creons wife commits suicide because of the wrongful burial of Polyneices. |
