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Virgil’s Foundation Story, The Aeneid, illustrates the virtues of Ancient Roman society. The virtue pietas means that one shows devotion to ones obligations whether it be the gods, family or their city. In Book 2 of The Aeneid the main character, Aeneas, and his family are forced to flee their home in the city of Troy because of a Greek attack. Whilst escaping Aeneas’ father, Anchises show piety to the gods by telling them he “is with [them]” and he will “follow wherever [they] lead [him]”.…

Each character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has a distinct place in New York City’s elite society. Although they possess unique personalities, each different from the rest, they can all be placed into one of two categories: insider or outsider. Nowadays, almost a century after the novel takes place, social classes are arguably still relevant. In this novel F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the timeless tale of the social hierarchy and humanity’s strive for the American Dream. Nick Carraway…

sometimes is not promising; Spike Lee’s 2015 film, Chiraq, is a hit or miss for audiences based on background knowledge of the Aristophanes’ Greek classic, Lysistrata. Although Lee keeps the same plot structure of classic comedy and adds new male characters, his lack of Lysistrata’s original famous wool metaphor has left the film fall flat. Lee’s views on the importance of the upcoming presidential are just lost in translation. In ancient Greece, the point of comedy was to empower and serve as…

connection Gilgamesh and Enkidu have, two companions, is particularly important. The relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu is an exact replica of human brotherhood. From the beginning, Gilgamesh and Enkidu are seen as enemies, lovers, and friends, as the feelings they have for one another are rebust and passionate. The connection they have is particularly controversial because the relation they share is quite far from normal. It is the fitting together amongst the two gentlemen and the death…

TW Revision: “The Other Paris” The ‘City of Love’ should be bursting with intense and passionate emotion, but the Paris presented by Mavis Gallant in “The Other Paris” is mechanical and apathetic. The city’s young population has abandoned the wistful ideas of true love and attraction in favor of pairing up for societal and economical gain. Mavis Gallant utilizes narrative voice and grating characterization to provide a sharp critique of the mechanical and naïve outlook on romance which…

manifestation of imitated actions that arouse the intimate emotions of pity and fear within its audience. One of the most famous tragedies to encompass this type of adverse saga is Sophocles’ Antigone, which is a playwright written in 441 BCE. It is a tale about repulsive thoughts and gruesome endings; it tells the story of Antigone, a tragic hero whose…

end with a tragedy? Two people, regardless of their differences fall in love changing the way people see them. A tall man with a short lady, an obese women with a skinny man; the possibilities are endless. Individuals from two feuding families may fall in love with each other like in the tragedy of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. A Capulet girl and a Montague boy instantly fall in love after seeing each other for the first time twisting the relationship between the two houses. The play…

In the short story “Transients in Arcadia” by O. Henry we are told a tale of two working class individuals meeting each other during their stay at a luxurious hotel and falling in love despite of the deception that the relationship started on . Throughout the story the author uses many techniques to foreshadow the result of the encounter between Madame Beaumont and Harold Farrington as well as outline the main theme of the story which is that appearances can be deceiving. The first instance…

Gatsby invites Nick out of the blue to lunch in the city, as he has a favor to ask of him. Nick accepts, but is understandably cautious. He knows next to nothing about his neighbor, and many of the speculation he has heard are directly contradictory to one another. Gatsby frankly asks what Nick thinks of him, a question that even Nick himself struggles to answer. Gatsby then launches into an elaborate tale of growing up as the offspring of rich parents from San Francisco, coming…

depict a world turned upside down in their dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale and We, respectively. They create an entire society and plot that shocks and causes readers to reexamine their personal morals. The micromanaged society, backward way of thinking and living, and horrific, oppressive realisticity of it all spark strong intellectual and emotional responses about morality throughout time. The use of…