Icarus

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a unique creature. The Minotaur has the head of a bull and the body of a human being. He was imprisonment in the famous maze known as the Labyrinth, designed by the legendary architect Daedalus and his son Icarus. This monster became a symbol of the dominance of Crete to Athens. Pasiphae King Minos wife in love with this bull she maintained relationship with him and gave birth to the Minotaur, The King thought he can maintain this beast to be tamed told him…

Faustus is ready to refuse the knowledge, “I will burn all the books!” But he dies without the reconciliation with the Lord. As far back as the beginning of the first act, speaking about “kind and evil” destiny of Faustus, the chorus compares him to Icarus who flew up on wings into the sky too high and ruined himself by that. Impudent flight of Faustus’ thought broke inviolability of the God’s sanctuary, “And the sky doomed him to death.” Represented in the play the humanistic individualism is…

A Changing Soul The 19th century was an era of defined gender spheres. Men were expected to maintain a public life, providing for the family monetarily while socializing with other like-minded gentlemen in meeting places like clubs or bars. Conversely, women were seen as homebound creatures, expected to care for the children, cook for the family, and clean the house. Their free time was spent performing tasks meant to improve the quality of the family, such as sewing, rather than socializing…

himself from the intrusive television walls that plagued his existence. As a end result, Montag's flamethrower dispenses powers of destruction and of cleansing. Before ordering him to burn down his personal house, Beatty baits Montag, evaluating him as Icarus and consequently alluding that Montag, by means of harboring books, has flown too near the sun and shall now fall to his loss of lifestyles. With this analogy, Beatty argues that those who defy the law of the land will meet their…

There’s always that one friend who has theories on any topic you could think of. Sometimes he says something that actually makes sense, something that is so nonsensical that it makes perfect sense at that moment he is “woke.” “Woke” used to be a meaningful word, it described celebrities who used their fame to highlight social issues. The people who work against the pipeline from poor schools to prison were “woke.” Then, the word began to lose its meaning quickly as more and more people used it…

vinci or any artist there is a meaning behind most pieces they paint. W.H Auden loved to go to an art museum and study paintings try and figure out the meanings of them. Auden stumbled across a painting that caught his eye the painting of The Fall of Icarus. Auden later wrote a poem on what he had taken away from the painting. In the poem, Musee des Beaux Arts, by W.H Auden, there important messages that can be taken…

Another week in the books and I have to say this class is going really good. For this journal entry we were asked to compare and contrast each one of the sites using your own impressions and opinions. The three websites are Knossos, Acropolis, and Pompeii Google Project. So I took the time to look at each website and I decided Pompeii Google Project would be the most fun to explore. The reason being the display seems really normal and there seem to be a lot of open space. Pompeii was an…

Throughout Rasselas, Samuel Johnson makes a point to illustrate the relationship between circumstances and overall happiness. One of the key points lies within Rasselas’ “choice of life,” as we find out over the course of the narrative that a person cannot simply choose a good life. In the beginning of the story, Rasselas lives a peaceful and very easy existence as the prince of Abyssinia. The valley is depicted as perfect and beautiful, and completely safe (and secluded) from the world outside…

Assignment 2 (a) Summarise the argument made in each of your two chosen essays (200 words each = 400 words total) In Daedalus and Joyce Writing the Books on Themselves, John Paul Riquelme broaches the different narrative styles deployed by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man. This analysis opens up on the “oscillating perspective” of the narrative, which refers to the constant shift between the first person narrative and the third person narrative in the story. This…

Zeus: Here I mad a quote expressing how Zeus had many wifes by talking about all the girls he is meeting up with “My schedule goes as follows, later today I have a date with Hera, than tomorrow I have a date Metis, than I have a date with Demeter on Saturday and the next day I have to go out and meet with Themis.” Hades: Here I express how lonely Hades get without any company in the Underworld and his jealousy towards his siblings “More dead souls, why did Zeus give me the…