Thrice

The nineteenth century was a very important time for music, an age often defined by two composers - Ludwig van Beethoven and Gioachino Rossini. These two composers represented and were key to the development of that era’s musical powerhouses, German instrumental music and Italian opera respectively. Despite the composers’ similar importance to their respective genres, Beethoven and Rossini are often viewed as polar opposites with Beethoven reigning as superior; however, the veracity and…

ACT I, SCENE i At night in the castle Elsinore, Bernardo, an officer, and Francisco, a soldier, are at their posts. Horatio, a friend to Hamlet, and Marcellus, an officer, enter to the suspicion of Bernardo and Francisco. Therefore, Bernardo asks who’s there. After it is revealed that Marcellus is one of the watchmen, both groups stop being apprehensive. Francisco then leaves in order to sleep. Horatio is ordered to continue to accompany Bernardo and Marcellus because they believe they have…

Phaedrus, the soul is attached to one’s role in life. One’s role in life corresponds to seeking truth and whether one sought truth in life determined how close they were to salvation. “Such a soul, if with three revolutions of a thousand years she has thrice choosen this philosophic life, regains thereby her wings, and speeds away after three thousand years; but the rest, when they have accomplished their first life, are brought to judgement…”(p.249). The philosopher’s soul, or the seeker of the…

Towards the end of The Republic, Plato uses Socrates to disparage artists, especially poets. He tries to invalidate them by suggesting that, “they may not have remembered when they saw their works that these were but imitations thrice removed from the truth, and could easily be made without any knowledge of the truth,” (Plato Book X). Furthermore, he explains why there should be censorship by explaining that if society would, “allow the honeyed muse to enter, either in epic or…

In Literature, the authors tend to create symbolic figures that the reader often catches, but it represents something totally different for everyone. The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte can be characterized as Gothic Fiction with a hint of Romanticism, and the Victorian Ideal. The novel centers around a “gypsy” like kid named Heathcliff, who is adopted and raised in Wuthering Heights, where he endures pain through abuse, the ideas of revenge and casting it on others, and finds love but…

Calm sleep and good mood One more important overall effect of wellness walking - the normalization of central nervous system's (CNS) functions, to be exact - the balance of excitation and inhibition processes. In the conditions of modern life with high level of emotional stress, excitation is usually prevalent in CNS, which leads to heightened ejection of many stimulating hormones into blood flow. They have harmful influence on the organism and can cause different cardiovascular diseases - from…

Here, Melville works to defamiliarize his readers with the very concept of worship. Notably, Ishmael posits a series of questions, leading readers along by the hand to follow his reasoning in why he should partake in this particular service. His “particular Presbyterian form of worship” works to draw his readers away from something completely familiar—a religion influenced by the Old World—to question their own belief system by positing a new, much more open form of Christianity, which accepts…

ADRENALINE PUMPS through my veins as I stumble through the growth, my boots smashing leaves underneath. Briars prick at my skin as I pursue the beast deeper into the woods, the dark creature only paces away from me. I scramble for my gun, shouting for my sister Jane to back me up as he dashes deeper into the trees. "Jane, hurry the fuck up!" I hiss, skidding to a halt to aim my gun at the creature, "I'm taking the—fuck!" With a loud gasp, I'm thrown into the bushes by a large beast. It…

Summary of Jungian Archetypal Psychoanalysis Many texts of literature throughout human history share a similar structure. These common themes in form and plot structure can sometimes allow us to divine some of humanity’s innermost, sometimes repressed, thoughts and mindsets. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is no exception to this pattern. While reading Sir Gawain, there are many common themes, or archetypes, that we can examine to gain some insight on humanity and some of its subconscious…

There are two types of people in the world; those who live by their own beliefs and those who simply follow in other’s stead. The greek tragedy Antigone, a sequel to Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, touches upon this idea. The play tells the story of Antigone, one of Oedipus’ daughters who goes against King Creon’s edict in order to stand up for her beliefs. After the death of her two brothers, one brother is properly buried while the other is left out to rot for being a “traitor” to the kingdom.…