Pallas

“Nevermore,” the famous word that directly connects you to a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven is a literary work that has gone down the ages as being a timeless classic Poem that transcends the sense as you dive into this sinister tale. Edgar had a life of hardships that he proved to come out the greater writer writing many poems and stories that are mysterious and prevalent today. The Raven was written in 1845 close to the time his wife at the time Virginia Clemm was being treated for…

It recounts the story of the brutal massacre of five women (Consolata, Mavis, Gigi, Seneca and Pallas) who reside in a place called the Convent. Those responsible for this bloody assassination of women are their black male counterparts from the nearby town of Ruby. Morrison writes, “Everything that worries them must come from women”(217). This may…

“Shhhh. (In a quieter voice) I am not going to speak of Calypso while my wife is near me.” Paul : “Understood sir, I apologize. Moving on, how much did Athena help you throughout your journey?” Odysseus: “Ahh, the great goddess, daughter of Zeus, Pallas Athena. Sticking to my side since the first day. Today, she has helped me fend off those suitors who had outnumbered us by dozens. She carried me here to Ithaca and helped me lead the tests. I don’t know where I would be without her.” Paul:…

God of the Sky and Ruler of the Olympian Gods; Zeus Zeus wasn't all just lightning bolts and thunder, he was the deity of the universe, the most powerful God, and the ruler of the Olympians. He punished those who displeased him mostly oathbreaker and liars (Richardson, 3). Being the father of men, he watched over his people rewarding charity, fairness, and truth, while punishing lying and wickedness. Zeus had his flaws as a husband and father, did what his ancestors did before him, but was a…

philosophy, warfare, strength, inspiration and civilisation. The immortal Hellene, pushing boundaries and reminding everyone about how women can do math and have an education, along with provoking gender equality in such a dark period in time. ΑΘΉΝΑ of Pallas Athens. Guardian of her city. The people of Athena used to be able to look up at their Acropolis, the safe haven, high above the city and know that a sacred force protected them and inspired them to serve a higher course in life. The…

Family Migration Story Zuleyma Iturbide In Playas de Rosarito,Baja California Norte on September 8, 1982, Beatriz A. Gonzalez was born. She was born to . Her parents already had 4 children when she was born (Maria de Rosario, Aida Ventura, Jose Guadalupe, and Gladys). They lived in Santa Rosa after she was born, and had only gone back once, a year after she was born so that her mother could give birth to her youngest sister Carmen. Her father was a farmer, and her mother…

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. In The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe allows his audience to believe that supernatural things make your mind exaggerate the results. The raven and the narrator are the two characters present in The Raven. These two characters are fully on board with the topic of supernatural. The narrator believes that this talking raven is really in his chamber to harass him. Lenore, the narroraters dead wife, is only spoken of. It is inferred that she is the…

The themes of fate and duty are very evident in Virgil’s The Aeneid. “The concept of fate or destiny can be used to express the privileged sense, derived from hindsight, that, once a series of events has taken place, its unfolding can be seen to have been inevitable: it could not have happened otherwise” (Williams, 5). These themes are shown most in the killing of Turnus and his destined death by Aeneas and ultimately the gods who control the fate of everyone. Lines 940 through 1157 depict the…

Turnus get the chance to enter the Trojan's camp, he starts killing his enemies as having desires for bloodshed instead of bringing his troops to the camp to win victory. Another example that reveals the character of Turnus is that when he kills Pallas, he stands with his feet on the dead body and also remove Pallas's sword belt. This is a dishonorable behaviour toward the dead body. His furor and pride completely made him to not be a heroic person, despite heroism, his uncontrollable emotion…

The Gothic Genre and “The Raven” The word “Gothic” usually suggests adolescents in dark makeup and loud music. In literature though, “Gothic” means something much different. The Gothic genre sets itself apart from other literary genres in many ways. Gothic works usually take place in a strange, mysterious setting and have themes of extreme mental and/or physical isolation. The Gothic genre is also known for the sentiment of the frightening unfamiliar, that is also strangely familiar. The…