Ulysses

You ran your fingers through Bucky's hair while you thought about how to respond to his question. How could you make Bucky understand how deeply you felt for him? These were the days that made everything worth it. It was torture having to wait for him while he was on missions, but the days were spent in bed, limbs tangled and him being so close that he can hear your heartbeat, made those lonely days bearable. You almost didn't want to break the peaceful silence, but Bucky was waiting for his…

There is no objectively correct answer on matters of ethics, as each individual has their own perspective on any given situation. The idea of a ‘Ulysses pact’ is an ethical issue that permeates fields ranging from medicine to literature. In these situations, a decision is made freely before the person undergoes drastic change that affects their initial decision. Although controversy brings forth the argument of whether or not the decision originally made is binding, there should be no debate. An…

Ulysses and the Sirens and “Siren Song” The lyrics “everything is not what it seems” from the iconic show Wizards of Waverly Place is a great way to express the theme in the painting Ulysses and the Sirens by John Williams Waterhouse and the poem “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood. In the painting Ulysses and the Sirens, Waterhouse uses the sirens to show that a person may look nice but can be very evil on the inside, while in “Siren Song,” Atwood shows from the siren’s point of view that…

I recently read a terrific book this year called Flora and Ulysses By: Kate DiCamillo. This book is a fantasy fiction, and won the John Newbery Award in 2014. The book is told from 3rd person point of view. Flora, the main character, inherited something strange on a late summer afternoon. Her Aunt had been given a Ulysses 2000x, some type of vacuum cleaner that was indoor and outdoor. They decided to give the vacuum cleaner a try outside, until “Poof. Fwump.” Before you know it Flora has a…

their gods. For example, the myth of the Sirens from The Odyssey teaches us to use logic to resist temptation and move forward with our lives. Ulysses, Latin for Odysseus, and his men are sailing back to their home Ithaca, when the stumble upon Sirens. They must stay strong and resist temptation so they can continue their journey. In the painting, Ulysses and The Sirens, John Williams Waterhouse uses the story of the Sirens to show that there are things in this world that will make people feel…

Kierkegaard statement that “Man lives forward and understands backward”, used as an epigraph by Robert L Patten in his essay on David Copperfield, goes someway towards demonstrating the dual nature of the text – both as a story of a boy progressing through life, and simultaneously as the story of a writer considering his early life. However, he nature of the bildungsroman in David Copperfield is distorted further by a second level of fictionalization: the nature of David himself as narrator and…

A La Juventud Filipina Jose Rizal wrote the poem a la juventud Filipina in 1879 when he was but a student in the University of Santo Tomas, and as the title suggests, was written for the Filipino youth. The first prize was conferred upon Rizal for this composition, at a competition held by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila. Rizal’s teenage years were the years when his nationalism and patriotism were being fostered more and more, according to Fr.…

Cárolina Romero Mr. Maust English IV AP 15 April 2016 The Beginning and the End of Dubliners by James Joyce In James Joyce's most famous novel, Dubliners, each story has some aspect that he critiques in Ireland. Joyce did not like his home country and believed that it was paralysed by the Roman Catholic Church, because the country was held back from modern times and failed economically. His first story The Sisters shows the overall themes of Joyce’s collection of short stories. It introduces…

Joyce's characters are meant to represent real people, to reveal the truth about Dublin in 1904. What is found, when examining the people of history, is often that they are strikingly similar to modern people, in any region. Differences of language and custom truly come to nothing when faced with the question of human nature. Therefore the truth Joyce contemplates in his relationship between characters and art is a universal one. Humans, no matter their age, era, occupation, or area, want to…

The Modern Period was a time of great experimentalism, popular authors began to subvert the tropes of past renowned authors, and there was a new sense of what literature could be. New narrative techniques were being used by many, and one of the most notable was the Stream of Consciousness narrative, where the author would translate their protagonists thoughts directly, rather than giving the audience an omniscient narrator. This strategy was a tool that enabled an entirely different form of…