Throughout The Odyssey women are continuously considered inferior to men, yet in Lanval women are shown respect. For example, each interruption throughout The Odyssey involves a woman attempting to discourage Odysseus from completing his journey. ... The roles of women in the two stories differ by the types of characters they represent, their status in society, and also by the level of control they have over their own destiny. ... Each of these female characters is portrayed as viscous creatures, only interested in distracting Odysseus from his journey. ... Nevertheless, in both stories, wo...

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Numerous themes in The Odyssey are conveyed through the character of Telemachus, however, Odysseus" son especially represents the cultural importance of hospitality. ... (Odyssey 54). ... (Odyssey 5). ... (Odyssey" . ... Hospitality reveals itself as a domineering factor in the way characters act and the way characters are treated in the Odyssey. ...

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Taking elements from The Odyssey and The Once and Future King, this pattern can be spotted. ... Odysseus from The Odyssey and King Arthur from The Once and Future King are the best character examples to use for the readers to identify and understand the repetitive appearance of the Hero's Journey archetype in literature. ... It is the aid from all these guides that greatly affects the characters and their journeys. ... In The Odyssey, Odysseus meets a woman as a temptress, who although, protects him on her island, later forces Odysseus to stay with her. ... While reading The Odyssey or ...

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The first known poems in the classical epic tradition were the two Homeric epics: The Iliad and The Odyssey. Although the authorship of The Iliad and The Odyssey are traditionally attributed to Homer, both poems were actually formed through the oral tradition (Beye 3). ... Even if Homer was the initial narrator of both epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey would have undergone many changes with each recitation (7). ... This is most apparent through the character Achilles in The Iliad. ... The entire epic is an allegory: each character represents a virtue and each setting represents a place. ...

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2001 Space Odyssey The film segment chosen was the final scene from Stanley Kubrik^s 2001 A Space Odyssey made in 1968. ... One theory sits with the idea of a metaphorical shift of entities: the room we see is a metaphor for the human body and respectively, Dave Bowman, the main character, becomes a metaphor for the human mind. ...

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Context Social, Historical and Cultural Context The context surrounding 2001 A Space Odyssey contributes to the ground-breaking impact it had on cinema, and has ultimately influenced the content of the film. ... The civil rights movement tackling racial segregation, the assassination of Present Kennedy, and the continuation of the cold war, involving the 'space race' between the United States and Russia. 2001: A Space Odyssey began production in 1964, just after the assassination of President Kennedy. ... Shots of the character are flashed between colourful visions and drastic clos...

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Clarke to develop an original scenario about man's encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence which later became Kubrick's next film 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001: A Space Odyssey is generally considered not only one of the greatest films ever made, but a landmark in cinema history, setting the standard and tone for many science fiction films that followed. ... In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey two major techniques were introduced, rear projection and travelling mattes. ... In addition to front projection, Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey also introduced the technique...

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In Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," the directors creatively use distinctive techniques of ambiguous symbolism, montage editing, and mis en scene to follow the human experience of chasing and confronting uncertainty for the sake of retaining sanity and moving forward in evolution. ... If Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey alludes to expanding the human consciousness, Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" is about dissolving it. ... Deren's choice of having the settings be in and out of a house on the side of a beach gives t...

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One of the most important films of modern science fiction genre is 2001: A Space Odyssey, made in 1969, which combines optimism and spiritual developments with exploration of new worlds. ... The female characters are dressed in such way that they are forced to been inactive whereas the male characters' costumes are obviously made for the environment that the film was set in, as the clothes are worn and dusty and easy to move in. ... The first was Fay Wray in King Kong, a character renowned for her high pitched call of fear. ... Altaira's whole purpose of her character is that of a...

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Caliban, the original monster and barbarian in The Tempest, has been far removed in both time and interpretations from the original one Shakespeare created four hundred years ago. Having been portrayed in literary criticism as a giant fish, a grotesque monster, an American Indian, an African slave, ...

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Clark introduced HAL, the computer of the future in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", "basing the design on the artificial intelligence proposals of I.J. ... And such was the case with Disney's movie that debuted in 1982 called Tron, in which characters existed inside a computer, and where the "mind blowing special effects" were generated by none other than a computer. ...

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