Throughout Homer's The Iliad, Hera's unwavering determination and resourcefulness from the poem's start to finish is a testament to the goddess's character. ... The epic centers around a conflict of powerful men with an underlying theme of the helplessness of women, yet Hera transcends the gender-based limitations by exerting her powers and taking full advantage of her sexuality in order to achieve her merciless goal of trumping the Trojans. ... Even though women are portrayed as powerless throughout the poem, in this scene Hera proves that women, in fact, possess arguab...

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The whole poem is simply an insult to a woman's demeanor and thrives off her uneducated social status. ... The evidence supporting the effect of figurative language, poetic form and carpe diem on the theme of insult and irrationality in Marvell's poem clearly puts the man at fault. Man has taken natures way of reproduction and turned it into a sport: one that deprives women of respect and relies on the geographical breadth, comparisons to epic events, and apocalyptic imagery presented in metaphor for success. ...

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The Inferno is epic that is about a telling of Dante through his Journey throughout Hell while being guided by Virgil. In the poem, Hell is shown as nine circles of suffering depending on what you did and serves as different levels of punishment and along in this journey, Dante understands the soul towards God along with the Inferno describing the nine circles of hell being Lucifer, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treasury as he explores hell and meets different people along the way. ...

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