Mesopotamian mythology

The Odyssey Essay Everyone loves a great hero who can help save the day. Epic heroes have admiring qualities from which all of us can truly learn from. An example of this is in Homer’s novel, The Odyssey. The son of Laertes shows us some of these respectful attributes on his great journey back home to Ithaca. Odysseus has characteristics of a greek hero including cleverness, leadership, and obedience. Odysseus proves that he can be clever in difficult situations. You have to wonder how he…

The next theme is perseverance. Penelope and Odysseus especially showed the most perseverance. One of the reasons that they showed the most perseverance is that they both are survivors. Odysseus was gone for twenty years, ten in the Trojan War and ten more in his voyage home. Penelope has persevered against the intruders for about four years, playing one against another with plenty schemes, in example, when she knitted a shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes. Odysseus' perseverance is…

Though King and Nicholson gain great power and respect in their camps because of their traits, they suffer for it near the end of their captivity. In the Changi camp, the Americans finally come to rescue the prisoners. The soldiers are no longer prisoners and the Japanese are forced to protect them. Without the presence of danger and the fact that they are close to being evacuated, prisoners start to turn on King. They become tired of his selfish, manipulative, greedy ways. Max is the first to…

What are the makings of a hero? Are they the physical qualities or the outstanding achievements? Or is it the mental battles of the hero that count? Three heroes from ancient english literature will be assessed for the noble qualities of a hero. Brave Beowulf was an honorable hero of the Geats. He lived in a time when monsters ran rampant and there were many beastly battles. As a strong young man, he courageously fought monsters and performed incredible feats as he overcame every adversary.…

Hook. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, the eponymous title character buries her brother Polyneices, even though the king had made a law stating that no one shall bury him, as he is a traitor to his state. In the real world, the Taliban tried to ban girls’ schooling in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, and resident Malala Yousafzai spoke up through a blog, fighting for every youth’s right to quality education. She was nearly killed when she was shot by the Taliban; however, she managed to recover.…

Alexander the Great is a very important man in history. Some people call him a hero while others call him a villain. In my opinion, Alexander the Great is a hero. Yes, he has done many terrible things that are not okay but he has also done many heroic things that made our world the way it is now. Reasons why I think Alexander is a hero is because he was a great military leader, he advanced the Greek civilization, and he wanted to educate people. Alexander was a great military leader. He knew…

Poseidon: God of the Seas The hurricane and the fire spring. Natural phenomenons are a symbol of the gods fighting. The hurricane is a mix of the gods Poseidon and Zeus.The fire spring is the mix between Poseidon and Hephaestus. These things cause terror all around. There has to be a solutions to these phenomenons. It starts out like this Poseidon wants to take the throne away from him because he wasn’t treating the humans right. Poseidon is going to come up with a plan on how to convince…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Chosen Quote Respond and Analyze “After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” This quote goes back to the idea of Blanche Dubois being stuck in a fantasy world and how she has the need to be desired. She says this Eugene. The journey that Blanche described when she is in the streetcar. It is clear that Williams used goes into a deeper meaning that with research I was able to interpret. Going back to research the name of Stanley…

People often have both positive and negative traits. Today people in society accomplish great tasks but may become hindered due to their bad traits. Traits including greed and boastfulness make up negative traits that cause people to do the wrong thing. Similarly, in the eighth century epic poem, The Odyssey, the author Homer demonstrates the traits of cunning, the need for glory, articulate dialect, and boastfulness. positive and negative traits lie within the epic hero, Odysseus. Cunning…

In “Antigone” Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers in Thebes' war, both have been killed in battle. Creon, the ruler of Thebes, has stated that Eteocles will be buried and Polyneices left on the battlefield, so animals will destroy the body. Antigone and Ismene are the sisters of the dead brothers and now have to decide what to do. Antigone wants to bury Polyneices’ body, but it goes against Creon's law. Ismene refuses to help Antigone, because fear of death, but Ismene is unable to convince…