Deluge myths

Absurdity Wears a Raincoat Name two key distinctions (religion vs. rationality) Both have a notion of the absurd: Camus 's notion of the absurd rests upon the understanding that there is a futility in life yet we continue to live on, despite knowing full well that ultimately life is not a game that may ever be won. Part of what makes this even more of an absurd notion is that introspective man will more or less realize that ultimately never get anything from it other than being able to…

If we assume that Nathanial Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is an allegory of the Genesis creation story, then the meaning of the story can be seen in an entirely new light. Traditionally, authors interpreted the story to be a warning against the dangers of science. However, modern authors have begun to interpret the story as an allegory of the Genesis creation story. While the two stories do not share a parallel structure, “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathanial Hawthorne and the Genesis…

Even Genius People can be Wrong (An Argument against three points in Plato’s The Republic) “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” (Vonnegut) Plato explains the perfect city and their perfect kind. He follows the idea of Vonnegut’s stable community and uses many different ideas to explain how to create this perfect city. Some of his best…

In “The Beauty Myth”, Naomi Wolf describes this myth as “prescribing behavior and not appearance” (Wolf 14). Women try to attain a look that is unattainable and because they are trying so hard to be skinny and attractive, they are distracted from the real problem. The real problem is their lack of control. Society uses the “beauty myth” to distract women from obtaining power. They are told not to eat, and focus on dieting rather…

heavier towards the theory of life evolution. How does what I believe in and what I have read on American Indian beliefs compare to one another. Also how their creations myths and legends compare to my current beliefs and the Christian and other teachings I grow up with. I will be looking at the Apache, Navajo, and Iroquois creation myth and legend stories. One of the first American Indian creation I read was the Iroquois creation legend. Their story tells us that immortals one where also…

Happiness and hindsight are two pieces of the same puzzle, that is true for just about anyone as it was mentioned time and time again in Stumbling on Happiness, a book that was really great at pointing out the obvious. When reading a book that takes its title from an accident and then proceeds to remind me that everything I perceive can be one giant lie because of falsified memory and a twisted sense of protection, “[one] does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of…

they had no written language. Their history was passed from generation to generation by way of storytelling also known as oral narratives, not only did these narratives tell the history of the people, but they also helped to shape the culture. These myths were the Native American’s way of making sense of their world. Marcella Joy states in Native American Ethnophilosophy And Worldview, “The ethnophilosophy, or worldview, of any culture is a description of how that culture explains the structure…

"Texas Forever" is a mantra Tim Riggins, the main character in the television series, Friday Night Lights, lives by. The premise of the show is how an entire town base their dreams on the game of football and we learn those dreams do not come without compromise. It is easy to identify with the characters in Friday Night Lights because their lives and their situations are believable. When we base our life upon a dream or the person we believe we deserve to be, it can be a tragedy or it can be…

and origin. Creation myths are among those. From Hera to Anu, humans past and present utilize creation myths as a sort of navigational…

Creation myths are often charter myths, explaining why a society is the way it is, explaining how it came to be that way. These myths can tell us much about a culture, and about the way it views the world; by comparing them, we can discover universal themes, and perhaps be granted an insight into human nature. All three myths studied involve the theme of chaos v order to some extent. In the Greek creation myth, everything that is comes from Chaos. First, the primordial deities are formed…