Metamorphoses

to intense sexual violence by her sister’s husband, Tereus, however, Philomel is able to transform herself into a nightingale and escape the torment of her abusers. In the poem, Eliot is referencing the painting of the Philomel scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which hangs above the mantel in the room of a woman who seems to be of high wealth and status. The transformation of Philomel is critical to Eliot’s comment on the turbulent state of modernity, when Philomel transforms to “yet there the…

the continual and violent refreshing of the idea that love and good writing have their security”( Williams, 24). Is not only bringing new ideas into poetry, but refreshing the old ones, and he death of Icarus is a very popular motif from Ovid’s Metamorphoses upwards. What Bruegel did was that, in his painting, the death of Icarus is unnoticed, “a splash quite unnoticed/ thus was/ Icarus drowing”, while the people, revived by the new season, worked the field. Human life moves on, praising…

Abandoning family, wanting to never find one’s family again, forgetting one’s loved ones, being disinclined to help them and becoming indifferent to their own death, adversities, and anguish are all things that Elie Wiesel’s experiences at Auschwitz made of him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie takes the readers through the battle of him struggling to maintain just treatment towards his father and guides the readers through his behavioral and ethical changes in relation to the battle.…

Franklin D. Roosevelt once stated: “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” Roosevelt makes a robust statement here about the importance of relationships, which brings up the question ‘why are relationships important?’ People have a plethora of relationships, from the relationship with one’s family to their relationship with their God(s), and each has…

He and the other fireman would burn books to show conformity. Without books and ideas, nobody is permitted to think freely and thus everyone should be happy according to the new rules of their society. Yet, when books and new ideas are presented to people, conflict and unhappiness occur which is why the government has banned them. At first, Montag believes that he is happy just like any other citizen. However, the reader quickly notices that Montag is not truly satisfied with his life after he…

“TO BECOME A PERSON YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BEFORE YOU MUST BE READY TO DO WHAT YOU HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE” UNKNOWN Chapter 2 Confronting the Seemingly Impossible; conquering fear I believe you have arrived at a conclusion of which of your dreams reigns supreme. Bear in mind that the dream with the highest total score is not necessarily the winning dream. Your core dream might have scored low due to cost of implementation and other factors. Do not loose heart, it only means that the easiest…

manages to hint at the actual reality behind the one the masses are fed. The silver lining of minor literature’s grey cloud is that it is comfortable with its place in hegemonic discourse; its mere presence becoming a destabilizing force, a way to metamorphose the human mind from its influenced state to the…

Within society, both past and present, we can discern a myriad of façades which present a deceptive outer appearance. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Willy Russell’s Educating Rita and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover are works of literature which diversely consider a vast array of characters and situations which demonstrate such façades within society. These façades may be actively used by a character or be surrounding an abstract concept or institution, such as wealth or…

I will be summarizing the argument of “Jupiter’s Aeneid: Fama and Imperium” by Julia Hejduk. I will do so by first deciding what exactly she’s arguing, cataloguing her evidence, fitting the argument and the evidence, then discussing her intellectual influences. Given that Hejduk uses The Aeneid more than any other source, it’s clear that scholars look to primary sources rather than relying on each others’ work. Hejduk argues that Jupiter has a complete dismissal for human life, and only cares…

Is There Rigid Structure To The Laments of Psalms? "Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever! Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?" (Psalms 44:23-24 ESV). If many of us have been taught by our parents to put on a happy face, to let a smile be our umbrella, or to keep our complaints to ourselves, then the Old Testament offers a corrective to these teachings in the Psalms of lament. Matthew Schlimm believes that we…