Pelion and Mt. Olympus
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Pelion is the home of the tutor of the heroes, Chiron the Centaur. It was here that the goddess Eris started the dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite that started the Trojan War. Additionally, the giant Aloadae twins, Otus and Ephialtes, in an attempt to secure Hera and Artemis as wives, piled Mount Ossa on top of Mount Pelion in an attempt to scale Mount Olympus and capture the two goddesses as wives.
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Laertes, distraught over Ophelia’s death, leaps into her grave and cradles her body. He cries to let the onlookers bury him along with Ophelia until the dirt over the two of them towers over them similarly to how the Aloadae twins piled Mount Pelion and Mount Ossa onto each other. Here, the crushing grief …show more content…
Even though Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden, the serpent persuaded Eve who later persuaded Adam to eat the fruit and thus open their eyes to the world and understand and have knowledge. God then instilled punishment onto all three. The serpent would be the lowliest of animals, forced to forever crawl. Eve would have pain when giving birth, and Adam would be forced to work and toil for food and sustenance.
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Shakespeare alludes to the snake when the ghost of the late king Hamlet says “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/Now wears his crown” (I.v.38-9). The state and kingdom of Denmark before Hamlet’s death is considered by Shakespeare and prince Hamlet to be pure, essentially a representation of the divine Garden of Eden. However, similar to how Eve fell to the manipulations of the serpent, Gertrude falls to the gifts and flattery of Claudius, and thus, destroyed the Garden. Claudius represents the serpent as he was the variable that changed Denmark and Hamlet’s perception, thus opening their eyes to the world similar to how Adam and Eve gained knowledge as a result of eating the forbidden
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Pelion is the home of the tutor of the heroes, Chiron the Centaur. It was here that the goddess Eris started the dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite that started the Trojan War. Additionally, the giant Aloadae twins, Otus and Ephialtes, in an attempt to secure Hera and Artemis as wives, piled Mount Ossa on top of Mount Pelion in an attempt to scale Mount Olympus and capture the two goddesses as wives.
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Laertes, distraught over Ophelia’s death, leaps into her grave and cradles her body. He cries to let the onlookers bury him along with Ophelia until the dirt over the two of them towers over them similarly to how the Aloadae twins piled Mount Pelion and Mount Ossa onto each other. Here, the crushing grief …show more content…
Even though Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden, the serpent persuaded Eve who later persuaded Adam to eat the fruit and thus open their eyes to the world and understand and have knowledge. God then instilled punishment onto all three. The serpent would be the lowliest of animals, forced to forever crawl. Eve would have pain when giving birth, and Adam would be forced to work and toil for food and sustenance.
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Shakespeare alludes to the snake when the ghost of the late king Hamlet says “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/Now wears his crown” (I.v.38-9). The state and kingdom of Denmark before Hamlet’s death is considered by Shakespeare and prince Hamlet to be pure, essentially a representation of the divine Garden of Eden. However, similar to how Eve fell to the manipulations of the serpent, Gertrude falls to the gifts and flattery of Claudius, and thus, destroyed the Garden. Claudius represents the serpent as he was the variable that changed Denmark and Hamlet’s perception, thus opening their eyes to the world similar to how Adam and Eve gained knowledge as a result of eating the forbidden