Philomela

in the tub because he had grown tired of her pestering. The title is an allusion because another word for nightingales is philomel, which derives from another greek story of Philomela. Philomela saw her brother, Tereus, committing a horrible crime and to keep her from revealing him, he cut out her tongue. However, Philomela and her sister made a tapestry showing his crime. As revenge, he tried killing her, but the gods turned her into a nightingale, making her a symbol of revealing immoral and…

Pentheus tries to draw upon his heightened status as a member of the royal family and his access to an army in order to prevent the bacchantes from engaging in their shameful religion. In Metamorphoses, Tereus' own plans to defend himself after raping Philomela draw upon a similar access to armed forces; " … to tempt the girl himself, though that might cost his kingdom; or else to ravish her, and then defend his rape by waging unrelenting war" (Metamorphoses 195). For both men, their political…

The interrelationship between human and its counter opposites should never be categorised in a reductionists binary, as the distinction is not as straightforward as one may perceive. In the Elizabethan era the complexity of the human genre and its sense of placement and connectivity in relation to the natural world was being questioned and explored. Shakespeare clouds the parameters between the human and non-human, stripping the boundaries in order to explore the limitations of humanity. Titus…

makes some use of these two themes is “The Nightingale,” a two stanza poem depicting Sidney’s grief at being unable to be with a lover that he admires. In it, the poet once again makes use of allusion to ancient mythology, referring to the story of Philomela, a young maiden who was raped and imprisoned by a man named Tereus (Student Writing Center). Sidney emphasizes what he feels to be his plight in these last few lines of the…

Task 18 In the Royal House of Thebes, Oedipus finds out that he has killed his own father and married his own mother. After realizing what he has done, Oedipus takes his own eyes out and becomes blind. In addition, he also steps down from his position as king of Thebes, but never leaves the city. There, Oedipus dies peacefully with Antigone by his side. What happened to Oedipus symbolizes that people have to repent for what they have done in order to have peace. Antigone’s final action, to bury…

Metamorphosis of Katniss Everdeen” (2015) claims that the main character of the Hunger Games displays many of the traits of heroines from Greek mythology. Hansen supports her argument by comparing and contrasting Katniss Everdeen to Artemis and Philomela. The authors purpose is to present readers with a connection between Katniss’s dystopian future to our historic past in order to show a far more analyzed way to look at the Hunger Games trilogy. The author writes in a formal tone for an educated…

Ovid begins his book Metamorphoses with the creation of earth. The world began with a single element called Chaos, it was found throughout the land until the gods created light and order. With the new earth came the creation of plants, animals, and the human race. However, the gods soon realized the ruin that came with each human. The gods summoned the great flood, which was a fresh start for the earth and its inhabitants. The gods spared all the animals and two humans to repopulate the earth.…

Time is free but it is priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it then you can never get it back. Time is the one occurrence in life that we can never quite modify to suit our pleasures. Time is incredibly critical and the importance of it is showed in Shakespeare 's sonnet 1 and Sir Walter Raleigh 's "The nymph 's reply to the shepherd." Even though we all choose how to utilize our time, in Shakespeare 's sonnet 1 the speaker…

Themes of nature in the works of T S Eliot T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an imperative breakthrough in the history of English poetry and one of the most deliberated poems of the twentieth century. It is a long poem of about four hundred forty lines in the five parts entitled 1) The Burial of the dead, 2) A Game of Chess, 3) The Fire Sermon, 4) Death by Water and 5) What the Thunder said. The poet was just recovering after a serious breakdown in health, caused by domestic worries and over-work…

When one thinks of Sir Walter Raleigh he or she might pinpoint one aspect of him. Raleigh was not just a writer, explorer, or soldier, but he was all three and many more. He wrote countless manuscripts, discovered many foreign places in the New World, and led the English Navy in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Even though it is the lesser known side to him, Raleigh had an impact on the way English literature was shaped. He did not write in the style typical of the time period, but instead…