Immortality

Death is a part of life, but a terrifying event to think about. However, Socrates believes that, as a man that spent his life in philosophy, he is “confident and to have good hope that when he dies he’ll collect the greatest rewards over there” (page 59). Socrates will probably say that those who cares more about knowledge will have “least to fear from death”. He claimed that they need to get rid of the body in order to receive clean knowledge; therefore, death is a good thing depending on what…

Life and death are concepts that are interconnected. We cannot live a life void of death, nor can we die without living, without existing beforehand. The poems I chose deals with these two notions and the link between them, and will be analysed in this essay based on language, imagery, meaning and effect. “A Consumer’s Report” by Peter Porter revolves around life, while “For Heidi With Blue Hair” by Fleur Adcock is about the method of grieving a loved one’s death that a girl employs. Both…

The epic poem “Enuma Elish” piece of literature and the film King Lion are two amazing stories. The epic poem leans a lot of the mythical perspective that explores the drama of Apsu and Tiamat as well as the primordial gods. In this story, Apsu is ousted by the help of Tiamat, and later Tiamat turns against the gods that she helped to kill Apsu. In the end, a hero emerges, the divine god of flame and lightning that zaps and executes Tiamat and divide her body. On the other side, the Lion King…

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite tells the story of the god of beauty’s encounter with mortal Anchises. Plagued with an overwhelming desire of lust instilled in her by Zeus, the myth goes on to tell how Aphrodite seduced Anchises into sleeping with her. At first glance, the tale seems so embodied with sexual elements and hedonism that it leaves readers wondering if there is any underlying greater meaning to the story aside from the pursuit of pleasure. Careful analysis of the myth conveys an…

Surviving Death Death is not really something that most people like to talk about. Which is understandable, why would we, as the human species, talk about our own mortality. Most of us like to experience life in the now rather then think about the future and what will happen when our time runs out. Though as much as we do not like to talk about death at the same time we are fascinated with it. Humans really do seem fascinated with death at times. Along with this fascination there is also a…

Plato’s Doctrine of Recollection is a theory of “learning” which aims to solve the issue of how one may learn something when one does not know what the thing is. Despite successfully and adequately addressing the paradox proposed by Meno, the Doctrine of Recollection fails to adequately address issues of its own circularity (as proposed by Edward Fraser) and also fails to address the issue of the regress problem. Perhaps one of the clearest instances where we learn of the Doctrine of…

Mortality is a topic frequently addressed in poetry. In Edmund Spenser’s “Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name” and Dylan Thomas’s “In My Craft or Sullen Art”, both poets write about mortality, however take much different views. Dylan Thomas warns against the fleeting nature of human life and urges people to embrace life without fear, whereas Thomas seems quite nonchalant about the idea of death and seems to believe that he can be immortalized through his poetry. Thomas uses the imagery of…

I am a green dragon living lonely in a mountain by a small town. I used to like looking down the town from the top of the mountain. People living in the town were living simply. They did not seem to have much stuff, Sometime they weeped when people died, yet the most of the time, they helped each other and looked happy. I started wondering what the true happiness is. So one day, I left for a journey to find the happiness. I flew over a couple mountains. I skipped some lakes. And I arrived an…

In a lively city with many shops and crowds of people there is a man who stands out from the happiness. Pluto, a man of mystery and crime, lurks in the shadows. In the day time he stays locked in his family mansion surrounded black stone and wire fences; however, no family is there to be found. Pluto has always been alone. As a child his mother and father were never around, so he learned to take care of himself. As a result of loneliness in childhood, Pluto is currently as lonely or even more so…

book clearly shows how ludicrous and naive the pursuit of immortality can be through characters’ basic common sense and personal experiences. The first character to openly speak to Gilgamesh about the stupidity of immortality was Shiduri. Shiduri being a realist explains immortality in a very intellectual and scientific way. She explains that a mortal can not seek immortality…