William the Conqueror

returns home disguised as a beggar she tests odysseus and the two finally are finally reunited.in the odyssey the suitors try to marry penelope but penelope declines there offer because she is brave. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John William Waterhouse uses the myth of the Odyssey to show that people will do anything to gain power, while in the poem “Penelope”, Dorothy Parker uses the same scene to show that most people appreciate and notice only the adventurous and heroic bravery…

In the fictional novel for young adults, The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, the main character, Percy Jackson, finds out that the life he has known is all a lie. He learns that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. He also finds out that Zeus, the god of the skies, has accused him of stealing his most precious weapon, a lightning bolt. Throughout the book, Percy goes on an exciting journey to find the true culprit of the crime he has been accused of, and stop a civil war between…

came to the botanical aspects, so much so that a professor teaching botany would take his students to see Ophelia because the representations of the flowers were so close to nature (The Story of Ophelia). The concept of this painting was born out of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Hamlet, the title character’s love interest, Ophelia tragically commits suicide, and she is discovered floating in a river: here is a willow grows askant the brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.…

William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy love story of two teenagers amid the traditional feud of the Capulet and the Montague families. The play ends with the untimely demise of Romeo and Juliet and leaves the audience in doubt about the actual cause of their deaths. Throughout the play we see characters that directly and indirectly oppose Romeo and Juliet’s love. On the surface we see how a series of immature decisions made by Romeo and Juliet lead them to kill themselves,…

1) Thesis Statement The mistakes and lessons learned from Hamlet, Agamemnon and “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” are very similar in the sense that all three have the character who take wrongful actions which eventually lead to life ending consequences, triggering feelings of pity from the audience. Body Paragraph 1 Watching or reading any of these plays incites pity towards some characters. This pity develops as the audience gets a better understanding of the character as he/she further…

Question 9: “The servant delivered the pistols, and Werther took them from him enraptured on hearing that it was Lotte who gave them to him” (Goethe 131). Discuss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, intimately follows the life and love of the titular character and culminates in his suicide. Though it is ultimately Werther who pulls the trigger, ending his own life, who is actually responsible for the suicide? Two of the most plausible candidates are Werther…

¨ True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? ¨ This quote, taken from the story ¨ The Tell-Tale Heart ¨, by Edgar Allan Poe shows a mood of confusion and disbelief because he saying he is not crazy too but he sounds crazy. In the story ¨ The Tell-Tale Heart ¨, a man is asking why they think he is crazy, he had killed a man, he had nothing against him. It was only because the old man had a vulture eye and he hated it. Every night he watched…

Pride and Prejudice It is no secret that Jane Austen was an appreciator of nature, considering it is a frequent theme included in many of her works. Austen’s heroines generally admire and love nature, and often take long strolls to appreciate the charming landscape they reside in. However, although her descriptions of the picturesque countryside are elegant and pleasing, they are intended to serve as more than just a backdrop for her characters to develop their storylines. Austen additionally…

In Scene 1, I learnt that the people of Venice valued justice and upheld it in their society. The scene begins with the entrance of the different characters – the Duke, the leading noblemen and citizens, the officers of the court, Antonio and his friends and other attendants. They are dressed in formal and dignified attire for the solemn occasion. This grand entourage highlights the importance of court trials and as such justice in the city of Venice. The obligation to uphold and serve…

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante Alighieri writes himself as a traveler who is traversing through the realm of the underworld with the Roman poet Vergil as his guide. In documenting his journey, Dante continually references and encounters both fictional characters and historic figures from the Greek, Roman and Catholic canon. In doing so, he brings the characters and figures back to life, allowing him to rewrite them in his own context and perspective. By reviving these characters and melding the…