Helen Walton

"All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you my created detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bond by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us." The monster explained to Frankenstein that he has no friends and was lonely and his quest in life was companionship and understanding. He said, "It is my loneliness that made me savage." Frankenstein heard his voice and it scared him; he saw his reflection and it frightened him. After being able to understand most of the French language, he realizes that he is not normal. "When I looked around, I saw and heard none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and all men disowned?" He no idea where he came from or how he came into existence. These unanswered questions made the monster increasingly lonelier. Desperately lonely, the monster decides to seek out the friendship of the cottagers. De Lacey is kind to him but before he can reveal who he is to him, Felix, Agatha and Safie come in the door and Felix attacks him. The monster gets so desperate for companionship that he kidnaps and young boy hoping to teach him to love but instead ends up killing him. After all this, he monster tells his request to Frankenstein, "I am alone and miserable. Man will not associate with me; but one as horrible and deformed as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and the…

After helping Paris in his single combat with Menelaus, Aphrodite disguises herself as an old woman when approaching Helen. Homer’s contrast in word play when painting Aphrodites’ physical attributes portrays her to be creative in asserting power. The phrases “a withered hand” and “an old woman” and later on “beautiful neck,” “irresistible line of her breasts,” and “iridescent eyes” contradict each other (3, 412-413, 423-325). The beginning suggests that Aphrodite donned the disguise of an old…

city of Troy. This battle was ignited by the sudden abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta by Prince Paris of Troy. Helen and Paris were star-crossed lovers, in which, nobody could separate them. You could compare them to the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, where the Montagues and Capulets fought, again, sparked by the love of two young lovers. Back in mythological times, Zeus, the father of the gods and god of the sky and thunder, held a celebration after the recent marriage of Peleus and…

Within Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis, and Seneca’s Medea, a variety of atrocious acts take place, sparing no violence and certainly no mercy. Although Seneca and Euripides hail from much different time periods, many parallels can be drawn between the atrocious acts depicted within their works. While the scenarios that lead up to the atrocious acts that take place within Medea and Iphigenia at Aulis differ, many similarities can be found between both antagonists. In addition to the similarities,…

One of the greatest battles in history, the Trojan War, started in the 12th century. There was a wedding for Pelus and Thetis, the Trojan prince Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, obtains a golden apple from the goddess Eris. It is up to Paris to decide which of the three goddesses is the most beautiful, which will be given the golden apple. Hera, wife and sister of Zeus, offers power. Athena, goddess of wisdom and warfare, offers success in battle. Aphrodite, goddess of love, offers the most…

beginning of the epic, the King is seen as selfish and can even Pamela Witkowski Dr. Asma Sayed COMP 102 (AS05) 6 October 2014 Roles of Women in The Iliad and Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is the epic about a powerful King named Gilgamesh who searches for immortality after his best friend, Enkidu, is killed. At the beginning of the epic, the King is seen as selfish and can even be considered a cruel authoritarian leader; his people are not happy with him in power. The journey he forgoes is to look for…

The role of the gods is very simple; it is to control the mortals. A human’s life is determined the gods. Therefore, the mortals lose their free will. The epic depicts a world ruled by unpredictable gods. The gods provide no consistent moral code, they follow their own rules while the mortals follow the gods, which can sometimes led to tragedy. In the Iliad, we can the gods drive the plot with their interactions and by changing the fate of the characters. The human however do practice free will.…

Messengers are always conveying the messages, never making the originals. It is a humbling position. We know that Hermes is the messenger of the gods and that he is a man. However, in the Iliad, all the messages are conveyed by Iris, a woman. "Away, Iris! / Quick as you can to the grand sea lord Poseidon. / Go, give him my message, start to finish-- / and see that every word of it rings exactly so" (15.198-192). This quote shows the typical attitude towards women in the Iliad. Zeus is giving…

this Hector” (XXII, 260-1) together. Achilles obeys her plan to execute Hector without question. Athena is able to instill courage in the Achaeans, and use her combat abilities to fight in the war, all while maintaining respect from the gods and mortals. Athena’s actions during the war paint a strong androgynous type of women. Aphrodite is the polar opposite of Athena; she represents an overly emotional woman who acts on impulse rather than wisdom. Aphrodite is seen as the cause for the Trojan…

Szymborska utilizes a glimpse into the daydream of a young girl, an allusion to Helen of Troy, and the free verse style to represent the female desire to be desired. Subsequently, Szymborska choses to write about young girls in the stage of life where they have graduated from being cute children without a care, to gawky young adult girls with vast insecurities. The use of protagonists at this age creates…